The Fallen Kingdoms Of The Abyssal Plain Lyrics

[Tribal creation myth and folklore from the Northern
Hemisphere, dating from 650 B.
T.C. (Before the Third Cataclysm), Antediluvian Calendar:]
Hearken, children of the Ersatz gods,
sons and daughters of the New Earth, for here is truth.
Long ago, before the third of Earth's moons fell fiery
from the star-seared sky, there were those whom we
have come to call the First Ones.
These men-who-were-not-men were the creations of the
Mera, beings from the far reaches of the limitless
cosmos, whose essence still flickers latently within
the minds of all their disparate progeny.
Praise the Mera, fathers of the First Ones,
bondsmen of the K'laa, sworn foes of the Z'xulth!
Sired in the great spawning vats beyond the fathomless
deeps of the Pre-Cambrian sea, the First Ones throve.
Those who were engineered to live on land duly constructed
the grand Antarctic Megalopolis,
ultimately becoming entangled in bitter conflicts with
the hoary Serpent Kings before retreating into theBal-sagoth - The Fallen Kingdoms Of The Abyssal Plain - http://motolyrics.com/bal-sagoth/the-fallen-kingdoms-of-the-abyssal-plain-lyrics.html
subterrene depths of the vast inner world,
whereas those First Ones that had chosen the embrace
of the abyssal seas were the architects of vast and
glorious submarine cities whose splendid spires and
minarets towered proudly beneath the unfathomed waves.
Those grand bioluminescent cities are now long since
fallen, razed and dispersed,
given over to the cruel whims of the unforgiving oceans.
From the lore of our ancestors, we know the true nature of the cosmos.
We know of the hidden and silent places,
the places which reside in between the veils of reality,
the places which mankind was never meant to see.
All this we know... we who survive,
we who are descended from those First Ones,
and who give thanks to the gods-who-are-not-gods,
for our creation, our genesis,
for the breath of life that was forced into our progenitors
during the early epochs of this cratered globe.
Hearken, children of the Ersatz gods,
sons and daughters of the New Earth, for here is truth...