[Intro – sparse guitar, low drone] I came down with the two hundred On the days of Jared, on the peak of Hermon We bound the oath with mutual curse And the mountain took our name [Verse 1] I was Armaros, eleventh among the chiefs of tens While Semjaza taught the roots and the cutting of charms I gave the key that undoes the lock The resolving of enchantments, the unbinding of the spell They took the daughters of men And the earth grew heavy with their seed Giants rose, three thousand ells And the cry of the perishing climbed toward heaven [Chorus] I taught them how to break the charm How to loosen what heaven had sealed Now the blood runs freely in the valleys And the watchers wait in chains of iron O the resolving… the resolving… What I gave cannot be taken back [Verse 2] Azazel showed the blade and the breastplate The antimony that paints the lid Baraqijal the stars, Kokabel the constellations I alone taught the counter-sign They learned to call the spirits down Then learned from me how to send them away Yet the knowledge turned upon itself And godlessness filled every house [Chorus] I taught them how to break the charm How to loosen what heaven had sealed Now the blood runs freely in the valleys And the watchers wait in chains of iron O the resolving… the resolving… What I gave cannot be taken back [Bridge – almost spoken] Michael and Uriel looked down Raphael and Gabriel saw the lawlessness The earth made accusation against us And the Most High spoke the sentence Bound until the day of judgment In the valleys of the earth No more the open sky of Hermon Only the long dark and the remembering [Verse 3] I do not ask for pardon I only sing what was done The resolving of enchantments Was my portion in the fall The women learned the secret The children of men learned fear And the giants devoured what they could not own Until the flood was spoken [Final Chorus – slightly fuller] I taught them how to break the charm How to loosen what heaven had sealed Now the blood runs freely in the valleys And the watchers wait in chains of iron O the resolving… the resolving… What I gave cannot be taken back What I gave cannot be taken back [Outro – fading guitar and drone] On the summit of Hermon the oath still echoes Armaros remembers the key he turned And the cry that rose still rises
