Tiamat
By Unlife · Black Metal · From the album The Primordial Ones
She coils in the deep
Where oceans forget the sky
Seven heads dreaming
Of the world before the light
Her breath is a flood
Her shadow is a sea
The first mother waits
Beneath the moonless sleep
And I sink down to her
Down to her bones
Down where the current moans
A thousand years of hunger
A thousand years of salt
I am the tide that answers
When the mother calls... Tiamat
The primordial chaos whispers my name
Tiamat
A womb of chaos and foam
I was never coming home
Her teeth are the tide
Her voice is the night
She breathes beneath the brine
Scales of obsidian shine
I saw her rise from the deep
Where the drowned ones sleep
A thousand years of hunger
A thousand years of salt
I am the tide that answers
When the mother calls... Tiamat
Abzu sleeps in silence
Beneath the brackish floor
Their bodies torn asunder
The world gets what it's for
Kingu held the tablet of her law
Fingers trembling on forgotten skies
He wore the crown she could not keep
And drank the dark between the tides
Marduk came with wind and arrows
Cut her like a final hymn
The tablets list his fifty names
She is a footnote in the flames
And I sink down to her
Down to her bones
Down where the current moans
A thousand years of hunger
A thousand years of salt
I am the tide that answers
When the mother calls... Tiamat
The primordial chaos whispers my name
Tiamat
But deep below the current still turns
Her children wait where the void churns
One day the salt will rise again
The horned ones breaking every chain
Until that hour I kneel to none
I carry her blood beneath the sun
About Black Metal
Extreme metal characterized by tremolo-picked guitars, blast-beat drumming, and shrieked vocals, often featuring lo-fi production and raw, atmospheric soundscapes with pagan or anti-religious themes. Bands include: Bathory, Darkthrone, Burzum