Lyrics
[Intro] Ah-ah-ah (Nile flow)
Ah-ah-ah
(Sands go)
[Verse 1] Papyrus scrolls unrolled on the slab
I scribble curses with a reed in my hand
Anubis weighing every feather I own
Down in Duat where the wicked get dragged
Scarab carved deep in the stone
Gold mask fitted to a king on his throne
Priests chant low as the torches die
Somebody paid for that pharaoh to rise
[Chorus] Walk like a god with a jackal grin
Blood on the sand when the sun goes dim
Walk like a god let the venom sing
Crown on my skull make the desert ring
Ring ring ring
[Post-Chorus] Hot hot heat
Hot hot heat
Sand in my teeth
Hot hot heat
[Verse 2] Obelisk shadow stretch over the dunes
A tomb robber counting his loot by the moon
Scorpion king got a sting in his tail
Sphinx keeps a secret and never will tell
Hypostyle halls full of hieroglyphs
Somebody whisper a name and it shifts
Ra in his barque burning holes in the sky
Fifty-two chambers and none of them kind
[Chorus] Walk like a god with a jackal grin
Blood on the sand when the sun goes dim
Walk like a god let the venom sing
Crown on my skull make the desert ring
Ring ring ring
[Post-Chorus] Hot hot heat
Hot hot heat
Sand in my teeth
Hot hot heat
[Bridge] Sink low
Sink slow
Let the river take the throne
Crooked crook
Hook and bone
Every dynasty alone
[Chorus] Walk like a god with a jackal grin
Blood on the sand when the sun goes dim
Walk like a god let the venom sing
Crown on my skull make the desert ring
Ring ring ring
[Post-Chorus] Hot hot heat
Hot hot heat
Sand in my teeth
Hot hot heat
[Verse 3] Bronze blade dripping on the altar step
A priest with a leopard pelt ain't wept
Embalmer pulling the brain through the nose
Forty days soaking in natron and resin and gold
Crocodile god with a belly of stones
Devour the heart if it's heavier than a bone
Book of the Dead got a spell for the gate
Spit out the name of the one that you hate
[Verse 4] Nubian archers lined up on the wall
Medjay blades answer whenever I call
Hittite heads stacked in a pit by the Nile
Tribute came crawling from mile after mile
Plague in the granary rats in the grain
Locusts descend and they blacken the plain
Firstborn fall in the dead of the night
Passover blood on the doorpost in spite
[Chorus] Walk like a god with a jackal grin
Blood on the sand when the sun goes dim
Walk like a god let the venom sing
Crown on my skull make the desert ring
Ring ring ring
[Post-Chorus] Hot hot heat
Hot hot heat
Sand in my teeth
Hot hot heat
[Verse 5] Tech-flow skittering over the dune
Tongue like a whip cracking open the tomb
Arabic strings getting plucked in the dark
Oud weeping low while the jackals bark
Fifty-two chambers and one of them mine
Karnak pillars holding up the skyline
Fellahin digging for a dynasty lost
Selling the bones of a king at a cost
[Bridge 2] Sun-blind
Stone-mine
Every god got a deadline
Ash rain
Famine
Empire eat its own name
[Chorus] Walk like a god with a jackal grin
Blood on the sand when the sun goes dim
Walk like a god let the venom sing
Crown on my skull make the desert ring
Ring ring ring
[Post-Chorus] Hot hot heat
Hot hot heat
Sand in my teeth
Hot hot heat
[Verse 6] Rapid-fire hieroglyphics off the tongue
King Tut mask melting under the sun
Scarab beetles crawling out of the chest
Curse of the mummy put your soul to the test
Dervish spin in a trance by the fire
Ululation rising higher and higher
Old kingdom crumbling into the sand
New kingdom buried by a tyrant's hand
[Outro] Ah-ah-ah
(Desert calls)
Ah-ah-ah
(Empire falls)
Ah-ah-ah
(Ash and all)
Ah-ah-ah
(Watch it fall)