Creeping Death (A Passover Hymn)
My Progressively More Yeshivish Friend pointed me to a somewhat inspiring and somewhat disturbing classic Metallica song. "Creeping Death" is a song about Makat Bekhorot, the final and most devastating of the 10 plagues that God brought against the Egyptians who enslaved our ancestors. The Slaying of the Firstborn. And it's not like Metallica is even "death metal" music...
for a video of just the music without the untzniusdik drummer, click here
for a video of just the music without the untzniusdik drummer, click here
Creeping Death by Metallica
Slaves
Hebrews born to serve
To the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word
Live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one
The deliverer
Wait
Something must be done
Four hundred years
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first-born Pharaoh's son
I'm creeping death
Now
Let my people go
Land of Goshen
Go
I will be with thee
Bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong
Down the Nile
Plague
Darkness three days long
Hail to fire
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh's son
I'm creeping death
Die!
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first-born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first-born man
I
Rule the midnight air
The destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there
Deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and floor
Final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door
I shall pass
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first-born Pharaoh's son
I'm creeping death
carved on the walls of the caverns by Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) at 4/11/2008 12:10:00 AM
4 Comments:
The poet wot wrote that song must've seen the Ten Commandments, especially the part in where the green slimy mist crawls along the ground and the low places.
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oh dear.
I think I'll bring a CD of that song and secretly slip it into the boombox at my sister-in-law's; should liven up the family seder when we hit the plagues. :)
In fact, "back in the day" Metallica was pretty much considered like death metal is today.
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