Nile - Essential Salts - Текст песни

 The necromancers of Giza
 A cult of reanimators
 Concerned with interrogation of the long dead
 Corpses who may be revived and made to talk
 And describe the contents of rare books
 And gold hidden in the earth
 Although they are often reluctant to reveal their secrets
 And must be encouraged with fire and blade

 A corpse chosen for resurrection
 Is cut into parts of convenient size
 Boiled in clean water
 Linen strips of mummification are removed
 And the skull and bones liquefied
 And boiled until all water is gone
 What remains in the bottom
 Is a white crystalline substance
 That may be carried in the palms of two hands
 This white powder contains the essential salts
 Of the man whose corpse was boiled
 It is from this powder that the living body may be reconstituted
 And made to serve as a house for the soul
 Which is called back into its former flesh by words of power

 It is a great shock to the soul
 To tear it back from its resting place and reanimate it
 The resurrected are often insane and scream ceaselessly or dash themselves into walls
 If the salts are contaminated with the essence of other living beings
 When the mummy has been the breeding place of vermin
 The revitalization of the salts produces something
 That is part man and part whatever gnawed his corpse
 These horrors lack the faculty of speech
 Or their speech is crazed and bestial
 And must be immediately slain
 For though the memory of the man may remain intact
 The verminous parts of his reanimated nature
 Inhibit his human expression

 Those who have served their purpose are killed
 By strangulation with a cord around the neck
 And their bodies burned
 Their ashes gathered and cast into the Nile
 Where the currents carry them to sea

 [solo: Karl]
 [solo: Dallas]