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[arr/lyrics: Britanny Bindrim] See lyrics below \/
From one form to another...
Make sense of chaos and disorder
Proof borrowed mass sorrow
Truth in the sun as the source of order
In the mirrors light reflected
Bouncing off lies-back into your eyes
Parallel wish, Enuma Elish☥
What's wrong with questioning the bias?
Diagonal, against the grain
Where the gods could be our hearts and minds
We are dying, we are falling...
But there's no reason why we cant rise
*---
No discord, diminished crown
Heaven and hell are both right here
Translation, speculation
We started a fire with our fear
Analyze, remove folklore
Whats left of the pretty story?
Open mind, extract morals
No reason to become the quarry
Hard to fake a sinless state
But keep a golden rule in mind
We are dying, we are falling...
But there's no reason why we cant rise
*Chorus
While we're here, while we're here
But there's no reason why we can't rise
While we're here, while we're here
We make it up as we go along [x2]
We all want something that lasts forever
Anyone could have it wrong
We all want something to last forever
The question's carcass left out in the cold [x4]
He leaves it lying there wide open and exposed
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☥The Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation myth. It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George Smith in 1876.
The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of text.
This epic is one of the most important sources for understanding the Babylonian worldview, centered on the supremacy of Marduk and the creation of humankind for the service of the gods. Its primary original purpose, however, is not an exposition of theology or theogony but the elevation of Marduk, the chief god of Babylon, above other Mesopotamian gods.
The Enûma Eliš exists in various copies from Babylon and Assyria. The version from Ashurbanipal's library dates to the 7th century BCE. The composition of the text probably dates to the Bronze Age, to the time of Hammurabi or perhaps the early Kassite era (roughly 18th to 16th centuries BCE), although some scholars favour a later date of ca. 1100 BCE.
