Doberman Pharaoh Lyrics

Doberman Pharaoh lyrics

To and fro, through freeze and thaws

From zenith to nadir

The
universal tug of war

Saw lines drawn in the sands appear

Divisions
of a promised land

And hell for those that dwelt

Beneath a
pharaoh's granite hand

Where death wed something else



Millennia swam passed

Since the covened ark

Ran aground on
ararat...



But anew, tempered shadows grew

Out of midian,
strewing fear

Over verdant lawns, the resurgent storms

Led a desert
son to sear



From the palace orchard I espied...

(where
swooning trees and moonless beams vied

For the painted eye of the royal
bride

Whose gliding curves were deified)

...beyond her grace where
love would die

Wretched destiny arrive



Back and forth the
prophet came

Riddled with a tongue of plagues

That would render
might egypt lame

If the rage of God stayed unassuaged...

I listened
with a heavy heart

But unveiled to the threats

This hebrew in a
jackal's mask

Would dredge into effect



Thenceforth the nile
reddened

S if set stretched his hand

To beset the damned



And bruised with flies

The skies grew leadened



But these
miracles, feared

Were all but reared

By nature, whose law alone

Stood that revered



This hysteria passed, but still the mark

Of yahveh burned on in the dark



One final time, on the steps to
the shrine

Of thoth, I twined with fate

"let my people go"

"still my word is no"

"then death shall be the deciding plague"



Since the crimes divine I left behind

I'd warred with every
tribe that plied

In holy vestament, but with time

Bored sore of
clawing what was mine

I laid my bones and made my throne

With a
view to paradise



Thenceforth the heavens deafened

As if
great beasts

Were unleashed to feast on man



And with carrion
span

Michael was weaponed



To descend with scorn

A dark
reform

Through pi-ramses

Skinning mine and her firstborn



Thus suspiria passed each sacred mark

Of yahveh, bleeding in the
dark



With nauseous dawn, a cry, forlorn

Unified from plazas
deep

The prophet's curse

Far worse had worked

To wrest the
war in me from sleep



Drowned in light, a downward light

Bathed the snaking exodus

Through the wilderness

As the aeons
crept

Impressed with fresh bloodlust