Gilgamesh from Ur by Nature's Neighbor

Drink to my health
Keep your sentiments to yourself
When I die there's another life to find

Sink in the depths of the deepest sea
In a trench
And I fight against the tide
I try and try and try

See them as they were… a king of old
See them as they are… a story told and retold
On the tip of your tongue and then gone
See them as they were… a genius child
See them as they are… sick to death of life
And fighting all the time

See them as they were… a living God
See them as they are… He still remains entombed
His name renowned, his legacy assured
See them as they were… an emperor
See them as they are… a frightened child
Who could not understand
The price in blood that stained his land

See them as they were… a poet king
See them as they are… an oversensitive and angry kid
Ashamed of all the things he did
See them as they were… a golden God
See them as they are… an overzealous man
Who thought he held the power of God in his hands

It’s my ocean you breathe
It’s the potion you drink
And the notion you feel is me

Way back when the flood began
I was such a younger man
Do you understand just what I am?

It’s a lonely mystery
A lonely mystery
This place has a haunted history
It’s a lonely mystery my dear
Hold him still for the surgery
This place has a haunted history...

You draw circles in the sand
And you dream of distant lands
Was it ever in your plan to leave?

Far out to the ocean blue...
Feel it calling out to you...
Do you understand just what it means?

It’s a lonely mystery
A lonely mystery
This place has a haunted history
It’s a lonely mystery my dear
Hold him still for the surgery
This place has a haunted history...

Was I wrong to sing
"In the void we're free."
Is it God or me writing my story?
How can I exist in a world so blissed?
And will I be sure?
Will my song endure?

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