Ullyses Lyrics by Dead Can Dance

Ullyses Lyrics

    John Francis Dooley
    wipe the sleep from your eyes
    and embrace the light.
    You have slept now
    for a thousand years
    beneath starless nights.
    And now its time for you
    to renounce the old ways
    and see a new dawn rise.
    In former days
    the masks were raised
    when the god came down
    from off the mountain,
    and a sacrifice was made
    for they knew the day of wrath
    was fast apporaching.
    Just like yesterday, before the war
    John Francis Dooley
    the scapegoat has run
    all our sins are disowned,
    and now it's time for you
    to take off thy mask
    and cross the Rubicon.
    If you and I were one
    within the eyes of our designs
    it would still not change
    the fact of our leaving.
    For tonight we must leave
    with the first gentle breeze
    for the Isles of Ken we are assailing
    Just like Ullyses, on an open sea.
    On an oddysey of self discovery.

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