Thousand Years of Sand Lyrics

Like a fruit 

In the rotten garden 

Like a soul 

In the river Styx 

Like a stone 

In the unending desserts 

Like a word 

In the city of Babylon 

Not understood 

Yet true and spoken 

The sun is reached 

With wax and feathers 

Where worlds collide 

Between Euphrates and Tigris 

The setting sun

In the Occident

Where monuments 

Serve as tombstones 

Just to serve the dead 

And what did it lead to 

Thousand years of sand 

A civilization 

Collapsed in itself 

And what did it lead to 

Thousand years of sand 

Thousand years of wisdom 

Yet just remorse 

Where dynasties 

Erect themselves 

The fertile crescent 

Shines for the realm

Mesopotamia 

Land of the gods 

And nothing left 

But sand and stone 

The library of Assure 

The temple of Ara-li

Legacies burnt to the ground 

Forgotten and vanished in sand 

And what did it lead to 

Thousand years of sand 

A civilization 

Collapsed in itself 

And what did it lead to 

Thousand years of sand 

Thousand years of wisdom 

Yet just remorse

Nothing less and nothing more 

Nothing less and nothing more 

Nothing less and nothing more 

Nothing less and nothing more