There is no place in the upper kingdom
Not blighted with plague and famine
The bones of corpses stripped of flesh litter our towns
The desert reclaims the land
Corrupt winds of pestilence and contagion
Sicken the air with piteous lamentations of despair
No living creature great or small is safe from the starving and the desperate
The age of famine is upon us
Decades of drought
Seven years without rain or annual flood
The black earth is in ruins, cursing the unfed masses
Reserves of grain exhausted
Cities choked with sand
Roving hordes of the starving and emaciated
Scour the streets for what scraps they can scavenge
Even insects and vermin fear to tread our cities
Starving humans migrate like swarms of locusts
Eating carrion corpses dogs, human excrement, animal dung
The poor are forced to commit unheard of atrocities
Noble women beg to become slaves and whores
Children are dashed against walls
Infants are roasted on high ground
Those entombed are unearthed
Violating the royal dead
What the pyramid concealed is defiled
Lawlessness unchecked, chaos unopposed
The land is deprived of kingship
No refuge for the old, the young
The weak, the malnourished
The diseased sick who are left along to die
As the just and unjust alike descend into wickedness
And ravenously turn on each other
The age of famine is upon us
Age of Famine was produced by Neil Kernon.
Nile released Age of Famine on Fri Aug 28 2015.
The song “Age of Famine” was originally inspired by reading about the great famine of 1201. A detailed account of the cannibalism which took place in Egypt was documented by Dr. Abd al-Latif, in his “Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Allatif. Médecin arabe de Bagdad”, (written 1201-1207). An excerpt: “T...