[Verse 1] I am Apsu, the first deep, the sweet water under all names. Before the reed huts, before the crowns, before the noise of waking mouths, I was there, still as a sealed bowl, old as the first dark breath. They call me origin. They call me father. They call me the water that does not ask. My dominion is hush. My dominion is depth. My dominion is the hidden current that feeds the banks and the roots and the dreaming places. I do not shine like the day gods. I do not climb like flame. I stay beneath the world, bearing it up without applause. [Pre-Chorus] Listen, when the surface trembles, I remember my own name. When the younger ones stir, I feel the world turn loud. But I was here first. I was here first. I was here before the first complaint. [Chorus] Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I was here first. Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I carry the first night. (Apsu, deep water) [Verse 2] My spouse is Tiamat, the salt vast, the sovereign sea with the mouth of storms. Together we are not a tale for children. We are the first pairing, the old undoing and the old embrace, the brine and the spring, the weight below the world and the hunger around it. From our joining came the elder line, the first brood, the crowded beginning, names that multiply like foam. I am father to the first gods, not by ornament, not by ceremony, but by the simple law of depth. Some say I am gentle. Some say I am stern. Both are true in the same dark basin. [Pre-Chorus] I gave them room. I gave them life. I gave them the silence to become loud. But room can be crowded. Life can become a clamor. Even the deep can grow tired of being split by footsteps. [Chorus] Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I was here first. Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I carry the first night. (Apsu, deep water) [Bridge] I do not hate creation. I am creation before it learned to boast. I do not envy the young. I only know the ache of being used as a foundation and called invisible. Hear me as I am: not monster, not ruin, but the oldest shelter, the sleeping source, the father beneath the flood. [Final Chorus] Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I was here first. Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, I carry the first night. Apsu, deep water, Apsu, deep water, remember my name.enuma elish la nashû shamamu imittu la zakrat shuma la tabat erisetu saplish apsu ruqum reštušu mummu tiamat mushabisu mêshunu ishtu ishni ishtanish qirbu gišmaḫhi la kishru qanû la kuppu ul tuquntu shukinat u ili la banu ina ilani la banutu shuma la nabû ibnû ilani ina qirbišunu qatru lahmu u lahamu ush-ta-nab-bu-u shuma adi irbu rabû anshar kishar uma arku yumı urruqu ullišu tarbu anu mar-shunu abu-shunu irtu nudimmud eli abīšu mahra zakru ashru rabû mushqanu kullat qablu apsu u tiamat rigma ishtaknu eli dulli ilani libba-shunu itru apsu uštablu amatu ina libbi mummu izzakra eli ilani mar-qabi ea shunu mudû ušharidu šitta eli apsu kluš-ti ishtakan mīta eli qaqqadišu ušashkin shubta u marduk ibbanû kibra u shubta arba uzni arba ina uzni-shunu kibrat arba'i naphar ishtu rishunu tiamat ugallipma tartaši uggata uqi iddinma qingu nadat shutta tup-pi shimati ina irti-shu kunnat belu uṣbit narkabtu u ulli šummat imhullu u shutu ištana u imittu ishdud saparri ana katam tiamat pû-ša ifteu lišānu ana ṣabtu imhullu ishur libba-ša u iqtibtu ubqi libba-ša kašdu u patru uṭṭub birka-ša uššir qaqqaru ipši miqitti ištu shina kisa ishkun shamama eli shina pisa uzni-ša ukīn matti uṣbat mê inu-ša ušardi anšat da-mu qingu ishtini qirbu ultu tiqti imqutu ana qaqqaru
