From the cradle of silence and of light
It took a birth in human blood - angels cry -
To the ages of violence and of hate
To explore the left hand path I came alive
Into my striding, the shell of a god in the cold
My soul is just hiding, my spirit haunting on to control

Flame of the Nile, fire in the darkness
To swallow the light
Behold the ghost of a god
God from the Nile, eternally roaming
To swallow the light
Behold the spirit of a pharaoh,
Pharaoh, pharaoh, no!

[solo: Jens]

To the world of spirits he's sailling on and on
Why magician don't you feel they broke the seal
Cyril's facing the tyrant everywhere
Far away from his grave, Seth is free

Roaming through ages
Begetting advice for your kings, yow...
Leading the stages
Of history that's bound to my strings, no, no, no...

[repeat chorus]
[solo: Jens]

Don't you see that it's coming, it's near
The wise man screamed in the noble chamber
Just a parrot in a rich man's cage
He's a jester on the count

The wise man died and the seance went on
And the red one reigned in the noble chamber
In dreams of a masterplan
For a billion parrots in a big cage

Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness
You don't realize, afraid in the haze
You point at the man that grins in your nightmare
And don't realize the mirror you gaze into
You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries

[solo: Jens]

I guide your away I make you stay alive
My servants taught you know how to survive
The way of light is food for your soul
But it's your belly that's taken control

No guiding light would shine anymore
It's just the red god replacing the core
He'll rise again to open up the gate
We have to learn for our future, our fate...

[solo: Both]
[repeat Chorus]

The ghost of a god...
Slave to the pyramid...


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    haha on 'Burning Down the Opera', Tobias jokes that this song is about a army of alien cockatoos :p... i think it has a deeper meaning however, i jst havent figured our what it is

    nindifon July 18, 2007   Link
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    as much as I can love this song, i completly don't understand and it pisses me off. This song seems to be some sort of.. well I don't know at all... but its a great one!

    kitchoua_temboon July 31, 2007   Link
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    this i a comment from a guy who likes this song, what I don't like is people who make fun of me. that's why I want you to read this comment without to laugh.

    I think the song is about a tv-series called stargate sg-1. the badguys are the Gould and the first of them that the humans met were a pharaoh. The gould is a "snake". The snake enters the human trough the neck and that way it can live for ages and the human has no control over the body but he/she is fighting to get it back:

    From the cradle of silence and of light It took a birth in human blood - angels cry - To the ages of violence and of hate To explore the left hand path I came alive Into my striding, the shell of a god in the cold My soul is just hiding, my spirit haunting on to control

    Then there is the name Seth, another gould. And after the chorus second time in the song:

    Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness You don't realize, afraid in the haze You point at the man that grins in your nightmare And don't realize the mirror you gaze into You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries

    The person the song is about is now a gould and says to a jaffa (the jaffas had the gould "snakes" in their bellys in the beginning of the series):

    I guide your away I make you stay alive My servants taught you know how to survive The way of light is food for your soul But it's your belly that's taken control

    In the series the gould (the pharaoh) Apophis tries to kill sokar who is actin as a devil (red god):

    No guiding light would shine anymore It's just the red god replacing the core He'll rise again to open up the gate We have to learn for our future, our fate...

    Sokar dies but thanks to the sarcophagus "he'll rise again" and he opens the gate (the stargate). Now the humans have to learn to defeat these badguys in order to save their galaxy, their future, their fate.

    PS. took 20 minutes to write so please comment.

    ironguyon February 08, 2012   Link
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    Although I'mn not 100% certain.

    I belive this song touches on the themes of self moratility and how they act.

    This Pharaoh afraid of what he's becoming seeks advice refusing to accept the person he's become. More so because of the lines here:

    Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness You don't realize, afraid in the haze You point at the man that grins in your nightmare And don't realize the mirror you gaze into You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries

    Obviously looking for answers sees a being in his dreams that happens to be himself. He just refuses to accept it.

    lordchriston July 03, 2021   Link
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    Although I'mn not 100% certain.

    I belive this song touches on the themes of self moratility and how they act.

    This Pharaoh afraid of what he's becoming seeks advice refusing to accept the person he's become. More so because of the lines here:

    Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness You don't realize, afraid in the haze You point at the man that grins in your nightmare And don't realize the mirror you gaze into You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries

    Obviously looking for answers sees a being in his dreams that happens to be himself. He just refuses to accept it.

    lordchriston July 03, 2021   Link

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