Age Of Famine Lyrics - What Should Not Be Unearthed - Nile

There is no place in the upper kingdom 

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 

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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 

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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