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Valley of the Kings Lyrics
Valley of the Kings
You must journey 'cross the Sea
Find the secret Dynasty
Burning Sand scorching Sun
To the land of the ancient one
The hidden Tomb the last in Line
Lost forever in Sands of Time
Find the Key unlock the Past
You have no choice this is your task
In the Valley of the Kings
There he waits on golden wings
Break the seal and set him free
The Golden one your destiny
Waiting there for you to come
A royal prince the chosen one
Move the stone unleash the past
The one you seek you'll find at last
The boyhood king he walks the past
He hides behind his golden mask
Deep inside his tomb of gold
The greatest story ever told
Dig my friends set him free
Read the words the prophecy
Death will come on swiftest wings
Whoever moves this sleeping king
Carved in stone the book of death
The pharaos curse wil take your breath
Death will come on swiftest wings
For those who move this sleeping king
Heed you now the book of death
Beware the curse with every step
Shine the light the glint of gold
With racing hearts he past unfolds
Open now for all to see
A Pharaos tomb your legacy
In the Valley of the Kings
There he waits on golden wings
Break the seal and set him free
The Golden one your destiny
Find the secret Dynasty
Burning Sand scorching Sun
To the land of the ancient one
The hidden Tomb the last in Line
Lost forever in Sands of Time
Find the Key unlock the Past
You have no choice this is your task
There he waits on golden wings
Break the seal and set him free
The Golden one your destiny
A royal prince the chosen one
Move the stone unleash the past
The one you seek you'll find at last
The boyhood king he walks the past
He hides behind his golden mask
Deep inside his tomb of gold
The greatest story ever told
Read the words the prophecy
Death will come on swiftest wings
Whoever moves this sleeping king
Carved in stone the book of death
The pharaos curse wil take your breath
For those who move this sleeping king
Heed you now the book of death
Beware the curse with every step
Shine the light the glint of gold
With racing hearts he past unfolds
Open now for all to see
A Pharaos tomb your legacy
There he waits on golden wings
Break the seal and set him free
The Golden one your destiny
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In an interview with the Dutch website FaceCulture, Biff Byford said this track was written atmospherically, while the band were playing; "[He] sang it at full volume," he said. Usually, Biff, who tends to write the lyrics to the band's songs by himself, sits down in his own studio by candlelight to work things out. "When I wrote 'Valley of the Kings'," recalled Byford, "I had to get it right with the pharaohs and stuff, or else some wiseass would go, 'Hey, you got the wrong Rameses!'"
The Valley of the Kings is a real place in Egypt and contains over 60 tombs of its illustrious rulers of times long since past. For a period in Egypt of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. The fascination with Ancient Egypt - its history and its mythology - continues to this day, and this grandiose track is a typical serving from Saxon, leading distinctly towards the mythological rather than the historical.
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