Ullyses Lyrics

Dead Can Dance Ullyses

                              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 it's time for you to renounce the old ways
                           and see a new dawn rise.

                                In formet 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 approaching.

                            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 odyssey
                             of self-discovery...