Erlik - Kashgar

Blood runs into the parched earth

Sunset crowns the mountain sky

The gore-soaked noose parts the victim’s neck

A blue-faced sacrifice twitched twitched and

Died

A pale corpse against the darkness

Ages honoured in sanguine deed

Ward off the Khan of down below

Satiate his eternal need

Tengri created me

Born of charcoal & flame

Suffocating mantle of black

Aeons I have borne this stain

In terror, blame me

The seed of Tengri

Seething creation

Subterranean wrapped

Erlik

See of misfortune, find yourself

Cruel temptation, curse yourself

Weak resolve, watch yourself

Prey to Allah, doubt yourself

In lust & greed, steel yourself

Cowardice & pride, calm yourself

Murderous hatred, it’s yourself

All your weakness, blame yourself

For centuries I have spawned

Birth’d all nightmare

Filth of the underworld

Swallowed without a care

Erlik

Weary, hamstrung race

How easily you all succumb

While I smother you all