[Verse 1] In the silent surge of the primordial tide, Where the freshwater pulse and the salt-waves collide. Before the horizon, before the fixed span, Before the first dream of the ego of man. Two shadows emerged from the depth of the gloom, Firstborn of the chaos, lords of the womb. Lahmu the shaggy, silt along the shore, Sediment left from the ocean’s old roar. [Pre-Chorus] Heat on beat, bang-a-rang, in the tidal glow, Fresh and briny currents where the first forms flow. Heat on beat, bang-a-rang, gray swirls of clay, Mud-heart of creation at the break of day. [Chorus] Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Ba ba primeval frame, sacred frame Name that name Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Old sky rim with a world-born flame Primeval frame [Verse 2] Heat on beat, bang-a-rang, surge, slip, and sound, From the silence to the swell where the depths unbound. Step beyond the salt and sweet Past all shores where the waves retreat Before the fire, before the claim Before the world ever learned its name Two round rims in the formless blue River-bed black and the first light hue [Pre-Chorus] Velvet arch with a star-line seam With a hush hush hum in a long slow dream Mud of all beginnings, sludge of every start, Beat of hidden worlds in a watery heart. Roughness in the river, grit within the flow, First of all the currents that learned how to grow. [Chorus] Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Ba ba primeval frame, sacred frame Name that name Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Sh sh sh shade where the old ones reign Primeval frame [Bridge] They passed on the torch to the sky and clay, Faded into ghost-light in the newborn day. Memory of river in the marrow of stone, Depth in every creature we call all our own. Salt line Sweet shore Old rims Birth door [Final Chorus] Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Ba ba primeval frame, sacred frame Name that name Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Deep deep deep deeep deep wave Spin that circle where the worlds engrave Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Ba ba primeval frame, sacred frame [Outro] Lahmu and Lahamu, husks of hungry need, Shells around the silence of a sleeping seed. Ba ba ba-ba-ba primeval frame Ba ba primeval frame, sacred frame Name that name
