Solar Aria of the Duat

Lyrics:

Circle of fire
Circle of sand
Oars in the black tide
Hands on the helm

We push from the red horizon
Gold disk nailed to a bloodred sky
Priests on the bank still chanting
As the river turns to dry bone dust

Names of the dead in my feathers
Their shadows cling to my hull
Stars fall
Swallowed by current
Every breath tastes old

I am the sun on the river of knives
Ra on the barge through the endless night
Every dawn is a war I revive
Burning the coil of the ancient bite
Ride
Ride
Through the jaws of the deep
Hold
Hold
While the sleepers all sleep
If I rise
The world will rise with me
If I fall
We all fall beneath the sea

Gates crack open in sequence
Twelve stone mouths exhale dust
Lion-headed guards stand watching
We trade a hymn for their trust

Islands of rusted temples
Float past
Half-remembered prayers
Sekhmet drinks spilled courage
Thoth keeps score of our scares

Hear that low drum in the water
Hear that long coil scrape the keel
Every eye on the dark ahead
Every god can feel it

He coils
He tightens
He waits
He coils
He tightens
He breaks

Apep rises
Mountain of scales
Teeth like tombs
A river of nails
He wants the heart of the daylight
He wants the world gone pale

He strikes and the sky goes silent
Hull screams
Timbers begin to glow
I plant my staff in his shadow
Drive it down through the undertow

Venom blooms
Sick green halo
Sprays like a storm of glass
I drink it in
God of the midday
Spit back a furnace blast

Ash in the throat of the serpent
Flames in the pit of his name
Every star starts ringing
Every oarsman sings my flame

Row
Row
Hearts of the Nile
Row
Row
Teeth in a smile
Row
Row
Keep the world turning
Row
Row
Feed the burning

Circle of fire
Circle of sand
Night breaks open
Day in my hands