Alhazred's Apprentice Lyrics


CHOIR:

An old colonial house in the countryside

Someone is chanting songs in a cellar

Strange lights, dust and candles

Abdul Alhazred's apprentice

Yes, he's waiting for something

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

Oh, forgotten gods! Oh, Ancient Ones!

Bring back to life thy kingdom

CHOIR:

These words once spoken can never be taken back

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

Is it only in my mind?

I can almost feel unnatural presence

CHOIR:

A presence from the depths!

Brighter flames, feeling colder

Intolerable odour made him sick

Something’s moving, it's crawling

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

It is breathing...

CHOIR:

It's screaming! An ancient god

Astonishing majesty of the cosmic cycle

The stars are right again

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

I have reached unknown dimension

I have summoned an ancient god!

His first call was irresistible

His first call could... could freeze the blood

CHOIR:

Black hole appeared in the floor

The dark doorway beyond of time

The aperture is black with darkness

And a stench as of a thousand opened graves

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

Ia Dagon! Ia Hydra!

I had spoken the holy seal

CHOIR:

After vigintillions of years

Older than time

Cthulhu’s spawn is loose again

And ravening for delight

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

And all its glory

All my dreams

Slowly are fading away

CHOIR:

Man lives on an island of ignorance

In the midst of black seas of infinity

And it was not meant that he should voyage far

The are doors that should remain locked

A knowledge that should stay undiscovered

Unopened books and stories never to be told

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

His first call was irresistible

His first call could... could freeze the blood

CHOIR:

The thing cannot be described

It lumbered into his sight

And gropingly squeezed itself

Through that fatal portal he made

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

Ia Dagon! Ia Hydra!

I had broken the holy seal

CHOIR:

After vigintillions of years

Older than time

Cthulhu’s spawn is loose again

And ravening for delight

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

And all its glory

All my dreams

Slowly are fading away

CHOIR:

Man lives on an island of ignorance

In the midst of black seas of infinity

And it was not meant that he should voyage far

ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE:

Merciful gods! Oh, Ancient Ones!

Please, close the gate of thy kingdom

ANCIENT ONES:

Your words once spoken can never be taken back

Didn't you read entire Necronomicon?

CHOIR:

Vile beast is here to stay!

(Excepts from "The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft)