Schiff Ahoi [English translation]

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It's been a long time

No one talks about it anymore

Not since a long time

They're all dead or up and away

"Sail ahoy"

No one still says that 'round here

All new

All the old deemed wrong

Some buried their knowledge in pyramids

We'd really have to ask them in order to get clarity

I wonder if we would understand the questions

That would arise if we were to go after these questions

These are questions as old as the vanishing time

That lie in the earth, covered up by the wind

Everybody's worried for their small time, time itself worries about the great pyramids

Don't believe what they're all saying, nothing's been decided yet

Truth has fallen by the wayside

Kings and their descendants have been secluded

Witnesses have kept under wraps

Kings have stood clear of their battles

Afterwards they were accredited with grandiose deeds

Of wars won and victories so vast

A thousand years later we learn those were all lies

The usurping of power requires the deceiving of many

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What if we're not the first advanced civilization?

What if we're just a cheap rehash of it?

Let me sing about it, let me bring it near to you

What if the pyramids are actually seventy thousand years old?

And what if many dates in our schoolbooks are wrong?

Because history is merely what's agreed upon

Unpleasant truths, all of them whitewashed

New borders drawn and peoples united

Myths created, so grab your weapons

There are lands to be conquered and empires to be built

New heros and new lackeys

Alas, the empereror's clothes are yet still clean

The pharao's gold is yet still in spark

They're still getting in wood to build the temple

Be that as it is - it is as it was

Some things simply have always been there...

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