[Verse 1] I was the sea before the name I split the dark and fed my rage From brine and venom, I made kin Eleven mouths to guard my skin First rose the horned one from the foam Basmu, the viper, takes my throne Scaled like bronze, with a needle jaw He strikes for me, and knows my law Then came Mushmahhu, serpent-thick A coil of ruin, a marrow nick Long as a river, red-eyed, keen He wraps the shore in fever green [Pre-Chorus] I call, they come I breathe, they crawl My children stand At the edge of all [Chorus] My eleven wake My eleven rise Deep as the flood Sharp as my eyes My eleven wake My eleven bite I speak their names And night is night [Verse 2] Next Lahmu came, the muddy-faced A shaggy giant, river-graced Then Ugallu, the wild hound lord With lion teeth and a storm-scarred roar Uridimmu followed, beast of dusk Half-man, half-fang, a walking rust He sniffs the weak, he marks the bone And leaves the proud to crouch alone Then came Girtablullû, stinger-souled A scorpion man, all black and cold He guards the gate with pinched-in fire A needle crown, a desert sire [Pre-Chorus] I call, they come I breathe, they crawl My children stand At the edge of all [Chorus] My eleven wake My eleven rise Deep as the flood Sharp as my eyes My eleven wake My eleven bite I speak their names And night is night [Bridge] Kulullû swam up, fish-man wise With scaled arms and bottomless eyes Kusarikku followed, bull of war A horned black cliff with a shaking core Then dragons three in my black tide Mušgallu, Uṣumgallu, side by side Mušmaḫḫu’s blaze, the twin-fanged deep The final teeth where my secrets sleep Last comes the storm, the breaking air A holy terror everywhere Eleven strong in mud and flame I mothered doom and crowned each name [Chorus] My eleven wake My eleven rise Deep as the flood Sharp as my eyes My eleven wake My eleven bite I speak their names And night is night
