Nile - Rape of the Black Earth lyrics

Violent clashes engulf the war
Torn black earth
Political turmoil brings chaos and ruin upon
The upper and lower kingdom
Heretics and zealots rape the two lands
Brazen rampant looting and wanton
Vandalism a bleak reality
Destroying entire epochs of history
In search of shiny bit's of metal

Dogs play with human bones
Amongst hundreds of deep pit's
Bug into exposed bombs
Children scavenge for shards of
Pottery amongst grisly debris
The unwrapped and dismembered remnants
Of the mummified dead
Ancient burial wrappings unravel in
The desert wind
Broken bit's of wooden sarcophagi
Shriveled mummified hands bleached
Skulls, spines, arm and leg bones
Scattered all around like the
Aftermath of a massacre

The temples of the Gods defiled
Looters hack relics off sacred walls
Laying bare hands upon the images
Of the Gods themselves
Unearthing what should not be unearthed

Thieves ransack antiquities
Cutting monuments and statues
Into small parts
To sell upon the black market
Manuscripts despoiled, papyrii burned
Inscriptions defaced
The images of the Gods defiled
Statues stolen priceless coffin reliefs and
Stelae strewn in sand
Inscriptions and wall paintings desecrated
With knife and hammer
Limestone casings stripped from atop
The lesser pyramids
Entire temples disappear their
Foundations laid waste
Their stones pulled down, taken away and sold
To be reused in foreign and profane lands
The dried and withered corpses of
The preserved dead torched
The bones of the royal
Dead from centuries past
Ripped from their ancient slumber
Left to be trampled
Kicked and faded in the sun
As heretics and zealots rape the two lands