Watching the earth’s greatest temple, alone,
Sitting on top of Karnack’s holy stone
Vibrating earth tells you, ’There you belong,
Sitting on top of Karnack’s holy stone
Vibrating earth tells you, ’There you belong,
No matter how great, you are destined to be bones.
Not only angels, even most devils have gone:
Four thousand years’ marvel mostly intact,
An accumulation of history, mystery and luck
That makes you wonder and makes you crack,
Four thousand years’ marvel mostly intact,
An accumulation of history, mystery and luck
That makes you wonder and makes you crack,
Questioning the supernatural, that is the naive-man’s sin.
I wonder if my greatness shall merit such a thing!
Papyrus columns flowering into heavenly sky,
All those majestic, earthly and heavenly kings,
Who built wondrous temples, worshipped sun and sky
People worshipped them as the mighty gods-
Yet they came to nothing.
But my immortal and fearless imagination,
While wondering, wandering in this ancient land,
As I am only an immortal human being,
Still admires mortal, ancient Egyptian kings.
In the jungle of temple’s columns, next to the timeless Nile,
The kings’ grand efforts may not be futile.
Some of the carved human faces still bear smiles,
But some deep cracks in those decorated stones
Reflect the Pharaohs’ mummified bones.
Papyrus columns flowering into heavenly sky,
All those majestic, earthly and heavenly kings,
Who built wondrous temples, worshipped sun and sky
People worshipped them as the mighty gods-
Yet they came to nothing.
But my immortal and fearless imagination,
While wondering, wandering in this ancient land,
As I am only an immortal human being,
Still admires mortal, ancient Egyptian kings.
In the jungle of temple’s columns, next to the timeless Nile,
The kings’ grand efforts may not be futile.
Some of the carved human faces still bear smiles,
But some deep cracks in those decorated stones
Reflect the Pharaohs’ mummified bones.
My dream for immortality was completely wrong.
Within this temple thousands of people dreamed,
Lived, loved, worshipped but are forever gone.
The sense of existence and the end gets into your bones.
Lived, loved, worshipped but are forever gone.
The sense of existence and the end gets into your bones.