The Pharaoh Sails to Orion lyrics

‘Get away from me!

Take heed to thyself and see my face no more!

For in the day Thou see my face

Thou shalt die!’

– Exodus 10:28

A constellation of divine

architecture built on Earth

A holy harbour – Orion

Nautical ascension to the firmament.

Ship-shaped barrows open

my heart to the wisdom of this land

Sailing with the Serpent Chimera

of a fiendish sandman.

The Unicorn arrives with the westwind

to dream His funeral

‘Thou art born for Horus dwells in Thee.’

Slumbering with the ebb

and the flow of this foaming tomb

‘Thou art born for Seteh dwells in Thee.’

Reveal your face to me

and guide me through the Stygian fields

Enthral my soul to Sepedet’s

beams to serve Your will

Sailing on the distant seas

from darkness to deliverance

Tales like the ocean written to the Draco’s glance.

Ruling with the scythe of death

you tear our philosophies apart

An ancient starwalk

to merge into the stars.

‘Open thy veins for my venom

Kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue

So shalt thou join the empyrean circus

Where beggars mourn

and seraphs dance

In this twilight cathedral

Shall I wed thee,

O Bride of the Netherworld.’

Join my soul the Hunter in the sky.

• Artist:Nightwish
• Album:Oceanborn (1998)