INCANTATION 17 (Nova Gothia Rework)

[Intro] (Oh-oh) Single light on the horizon (Oh-oh) Single line in the sand A stranger walks where the stars fall low, Where the dunes are a frozen tide… And sometimes, At the bleeding of the sun, A city rises from the dust. You will not find it on any map. Its gates swing wide only for the fallen. And if one night it calls your name— Do not follow in its flame… [Verse 1] I saw it burn on the edge of the skyline, Where daylight was drowning in oceans of stone. It floated above like the breath of the ending, A ghost from an era the desert had known. Gold in the air, all its columns were shining, Lost in the blood-colored shimmer of dusk. The wind on the dunes brushed my skin like a whisper, Spoke words in my ear that I never could trust. [Pre-Chorus] But step after step I was pulled to the distance, It never dissolved like a heat-stricken lie. The walls threw their shadows like old recollections, And softly they started to open their sky. And there, where the silence was hollow and endless, I heard something move in the marrow of me. As if every tower beneath buried ages Looked over the desert and suddenly… [Chorus] Incantation seventeen… Walk through the river, Where under the sand a new dawning is born. Walk through the darkness, the nameless horizon, Where the Sun Lord is guiding his celestial form. Release what you’ve seen… Your uncharted journey Runs over the ages and under the storm. From night like the sunrise in first golden morning, You’ll rise with the daylight, a new blazing form… [Verse 2] I stepped inside like a grain through the doorway, Where stone still remembers a thousand lost names. The city was neither a dream nor a vision, It breathed under watch of unbreakable fangs. Down empty streets made for none of the living Moved shadows of souls who abandoned the light. Their footsteps were soft as the memory under The dunes where we bury the loss of our sight. No birds in the sky of its echoing chambers, Just beetles of midnight in crystalline halls. And each turning corner of echoing arches Led deeper and deeper through vanishing walls. [Bridge] Listen… You did not find a city, You have fallen in the memory of the world beneath these dunes. There is no living, there is no dying— Only those who crossed the final gate too soon. Your image now is written into forever, And if you hear this calling in the deep— It means you’re on the inside, not the outside. Anubis closed the gates behind your feet. And time is only distant here, not certain, The world stays young, the hours never move. And every single choice will find its measure, And he who weighs the heart will speak your truth. [Chorus] Incantation seventeen… Walk through the river, Where under the sand a new dawning is born. Walk through the darkness, the nameless horizon, Where the Sun Lord is guiding his celestial form. Release what you’ve seen… Your uncharted journey Runs over the ages and under the storm. From night like the sunrise in first golden morning, You’ll rise with the daylight, a new blazing form… [Final Chorus / Outro] Incantation seventeen… All the desert stands still at the edge of the sunrise, All the shadows fall nameless and drop from their thrones. And the city dissolves like a breath in my chest, Where eternity hushes and swallows the known. Now the trial is done… All the ages align. And the gate swings open, not to the night but light. I am not walking into the dark any longer, I am walking straight into the height. There Ra is lifting his chariot higher, And once again he will cut through the void. Where war wages on between the dusk and the dawning, A battle forever that cannot be destroyed. (Oh-oh-oh) Incantation seventeen… (Oh-oh-oh) New fire in me…