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Neoandertals - Neanderthal Parallax lyrics



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01. Birth Of The Enemy Of Man

Homo neanderthalensis

A Neanderthal child is born
Into the coldness of the winter

Birth of the enemy of man
Who long had ruled before

The mother would not survive
Blue and cold
Forever missed by the group
Her body defleshed and eaten

Bones are cleaned of tissue; it is a sombre process
Sucking out the brain with a flint
The head should not be cut
The muscles don't peel off as easily
Removing loosely hanging flesh with bare hands
Fragile bones deformed too easily
Cannibalistic winter ceremonies

Frozen bodies mangled in the cave
Hacked fingers eaten during long hunting trips
Ground too cold for a grave
Rotting odours of the flesh;

stirred by the air
Under the black fog of a winter night
The remains burned in a hole
O the moon shone bright on the carcass

Dead bones can harm no soul

Winter kept them cold
February is the cruelest month
No freshness in life, no bloom
A malnourished young Neanderthal boy
Cherish his doom

A new life of starvation and suffering ahead

02. Early Life

A life of darkness awaits
So much pain you yet must encounter

Anger and frustration within the kin

Hatred for the cold
Barely surviving another cold period
A freezing hell

A long winter - perhaps too long
And they are getting longer

Restlessness
Lack of calories and sleep

Beaten and scared
Weak and sad

A childhood spent in sorrow and devastation

03. A Freezing Cave

Bitter cold winds
Lowering the temperature of the stone walls

Shaking and shivering
Wood too wet for a fire
Nights are the worst

Pains in the chest
Hard to breathe
The air is thick and heavy
Coughing Blood

Some are not waking up in the morning
Cut open and eaten in the evening
Ribs left for the wolves

The deadest, The noblest

If only death could sleep

04. Hunter-Gatherer, Destroyer-Wanderer

An endless winter
A life in darkness

Frozen tundras
Eternal ice in a cold wasteland

Hunting And Gathering

Unsuccessful hunting trips
Hardly surviving
Starvation imminent
Cursing the curse of humanity on them
Spitting and spatting out the rotten blood

Dreaming of dense forests, thick with outlandish trees
Dreaming of dead beings
Dreaming of dark autumn evenings

Hunter, gatherer
Destroyer, wanderer

05. Humans

Homo sapiens
The enemy
Grim and greedy
And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too
In the night to slaughter them all

Feeling their woes
Humans
Let the northern predators take them
The wolves
The hungry

Enjoy
The glory of dying

Early contacts being hostile encounters
Hunting the same prey

The first kill for the Neanderthal boy is a human man

Ruthlessly murdering human wanderers
Choke him properly
Chop him properly
Eat the bits

What to do with a trapped human
He is bleeding
Beating him in rage and fear
Bringing the body into the cave for further mutilation

Breaking the neck
Finishing the kill with a spear through the torso
Crushing the skull with a bigger rock

Scattering half-burned remains into the woods
To warn other humans to stay away

In the end
Consumed by worms

06. Night

Midnight
Fear
The primal feeling

Unfamiliar noises of the night in the wilderness
Strange cries from nocturnal creatures

The harsh environment punishing the young and weak
Hail and rain
Lightning
An awful, terrifying flash
Something is killing them

Reckless wanderings
Many broken bones and knees
Sleeping under fallen trees
The endless darkness of the night
unaccountable phenomenons and strange anomalies
Dreaming every night about the sweetness of death

Sole survivor of the cold nights

07. Starvation

Cannibalistic survivors
Primitive behavior because of hunger

Adapting to prolonged periods of starvation
Going crazy

Smoke of the cave fire chocking the young
Too weak to hunt anyway

Two weary and lonely weeks passed without any food
A hissing sound comes from the throat of the starving beings

His great love for fresh carrion flesh

08. Death

Life is short
All the elders are already dead

In a parallel world without humans
They would be the kings, the rulers, the destroyers with fire
The bloodthirsty murderers
The humble executioners

In the coming centuries your dead bones will give birth for cloned Neanderthals
Raising the dead to life
Prepare for a parallel life as an undead wanderer
In this post-human wasteland
Death was better
Much better

They are the new Neanderthals, the neo-Neanderthals
Taking revenge, slaying everything in its path
An insane prophet warned us a long time ago
It has begun
Death was just the beginning