Nile - Age of Famine lyrics
[Nile - Age of Famine lyrics]
Not blighted with plague and famine
The bones of corpses stripped of
Flesh litter our towns
The desert reclaims the land
Corrupt winds of pestilence and contagion
Sicken the air with piteous
Lamentations of despair
No living creature great or small is safe
From the starving and the desperate
Decades of drought
Seven years without rain or annual flood
The black earth is in ruins
Cursing the unfed masses
Reserves of grain exhausted
Cities choked with sand
Roving hordes of the starving and emaciated
Scour the streets for what
Scraps they can scavenge
Even insects and vermin fear
To tread our cities
Starving humans migrate like
Swarms of locusts
Eating carrion corpses dogs, human excrement
Animal dung
The poor are forced to
Commit unheard of atrocities
Noble women beg to become slaves and whores
Children are dashed against walls
Infants are roasted on high ground
Those entombed are unearthed
Violating the royal dead
What the pyramid concealed is defiled
Lawlessness unchecked, chaos unopposed
The land is deprived of kingship
No refuge for the old, the young
The weak, the malnourished
The diseased sick who are left along to die
As the just and unjust
Alike descend into wickedness
And ravenously turn on each other
The age of famine is upon us
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