Ia Chtulhu Fhtagn Songtext / Lyric

cosmic shadows as aeons
from the ancient spectrum
breed abominations
in the eternal chaos
they called his name again IA CHUTULLU FHTAGN

In his house at R'lyeh,
dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before

there were any men,

and who came to the young world out of the sky.

Those Old Ones were gone now,

inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead

bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men,

who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, always existed and always would exist


There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and

They had had great cities.

Remains of Them, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands

in the Pacific.

when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity.

They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.

Distant wast

hidden in the dark

migtht r'lyeh

born again

(In the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed Old Ones in

dreams,

but then something happened. The great stone city R'lyeh, with its

monoliths and sepulchres)

under the
waters, should rise and bring
the earth again
beneath his sway.

(had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters,

full of the one primal mystery

through which not even thought can pass,

had cut of the spectral intercourse)

was built in measureless

eons behind history

by the vast,

loathsome shapes

that seeped down from

the dark stars.

There lay great Cthulhu

hidden in green slimy

vaults!