P.F.M. (Premiata Forneria Marconi)

The Mountain
Red Bellows of flame have blackened my stones Convulsing my frame and cracking my bones. Hell's dragons of steel who roar in their chains Crawl into my caves to suck out my veins. I've split the sky ten million years And I've been called a hunderd different names. I know the stories of the wind, I've argued with the thunder and the rain ... Till eagles flew from Urizen Revealing how my mother's face was horribly changed By the apes ... Where once shepherds dined the diamond worm screams. The ash of my pine is choking my strams "O-Yam-Tsu-Mi"* I invoke your name. But "O-Yam-Tsu-Mi" lay broken and ill By the plight and the pain of his mountains and hills By his waterfall weeps Once again ... * Ancient Japanese God of Mountains Aus Songtexte Mania