Ahab
The Call of the Wretched Sea

Tracklist

• 1. Below the Sun (11:45)
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  I turn my body from the sun
  To follow the fading phantom into the deep
  All collapsed
  And the great shroud of the sea
  Rolled on as it rolled thousands of years ago
  Your malice is my vengeance
  Pull me, into deep
  My body - drowned
  But my hate is immortal
  Dark and silent
  Deeper, darker
  Below the surface
  Below the sun
  Ghost of the sea
  I am God's assassin
  My lifeless eyes
  My tortured soul
  I grin at the ocean, thou grinning whale
  Dark and silent... deep
  My body - drowned
  But my hate is immortal
  Ghost of the sea
  I am God's assassin
  My lifeless eyes
  Deep
• 2. The Pacific (10:07)
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  Oh, ye great mysterious - Thousand leagues of blue
  No one knows which mysteries are hidden
  Beneath your surface
  
  Your awful stirrings seem to speak of some
  hidden soul beneath
  
  The waves rise and fall
  Millions of mixed shades and shadows
  Lie dreaming and silent
  All what we call lives and souls
  Lie dreaming... Silent... Dreaming...
  
  All what we call lives and souls
  The ever rolling waves
  Restless one
  All what we call lives and souls
  Lie dreaming
  Oh, restless one
  Your tide, the beating beast of earth
  
  Oh, ye great mysterious shepherd of waves
  Offer me your secrets
  So he shall spout thick blood
• 3. Old Thunder (09:54)
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  Ahab:
  "Look sharp, marines!"
  "Dead whale or sunk boat!"
  "Hunt him 'til he spouts black blood"
  "And rolls fin up!"
  
  Old Thunder ye once was called,
  Fullfill the prophecy
  
  All but one shall be entombed
  In the deep gulf of doom
  
  Beware the white demon
  Beware the blasphemous end
  
  (Ahab: "I am Ahab!"
  "I am the prophet and the fulfiller!"
  "Who's over me?"
  "So be it!")
• 4. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales (instrumental) (01:52)
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  instrumental
• 5. The Sermon (12:36)
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  The ribs and terrors in the whale
  Arched over me a dismal doom
  While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by
  And lift me deepening down to doom
  
  I saw the opening maw of hell
  With endless pains and sorrows there
  Elich none but they that feel can tell
  Oh I was plunging to despair
  
  In black distress
  I called my God
  When I could scarce believe him mine
  He bowed his ears to my complaint
  No more the whale did me confine
  
  With speed he flew to my relief
  As on a radiant dolphin borne
  Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone
  The face of my deliverer God
  
  My song forever shall record
  That terrible, that joyful hour
  I give the glory to my God
  His all the mercy and the power
  
  Ahab: "Nevermore!"
• 6. The Hunt (11:13)
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  Flat and silent the ocean lies
  Pequod's captured in a lull
  No gentle breeze blows in the sails
  Heated by a salty carpet from above
  The crew's emaciated, survival tough
  
  Giant billows bear a mighty whiteness
  Screams from the outlook: Whale ahead!
  I want this whale, I want it dead!
  
  Hysteria on upper deck
  Rabid flames in Ahab's eyes
  Hustle and bustle, drag and pull
  Panic afferts the whaler's moves
  
  Fire!
  
  The harpoon slashes the water's surface
  Diving into darkness – the prey escapes
  
  Swallowed by the sea
  Starboard lies calm
  Portside full of wrath
  Possessed by unhuman anger
  
  The beast brawly pumps the blood
  Through the marionette of rage
  
  Ahab's visage runs red
  I want this whale, I want it dead
  
  A fin erupts from the abyss
  Proudly undulates the flesh
  Reaches bright horizons
  Inviolable, manorial
  An arrow loosens
  ...and spirit's away
• 7. Ahab's Oath (10:11)
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  Now three to three ye stand
  Commend the murderous chalices!
  Bestow them, ye who now made parties to this indissoluble league
  Drink ye harpuneers
  Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow
  Death to Moby Dick
  God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his Death!
Délka: 01:07:38