Released on November 19, 1997

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[Verse 1]

I often dream of huge, numb buildings

Jet-black, sinister architecture

Being installed when nobody sees

Their appearance so sudden

That few would take notice


[Verse 2]

And when I wake up

I imagine being crushed by one

Imagining its weight, its silence

And the absence of excuses for a havoced life

And the privilege of a 22-kilometer tombstone


[Hook]

Jotun


[Chorus]

A body of black

That carried no reflection

Defying its own room

Un-earthly eggs of decreation


[Verse 3]

There would be colonies

Mushroom-scattered, forever out of context

Rising spores from a dying world

To pollute, to chase away what's left


[Bridge]

Sun-white, pulverized desert stone

And serpentine lizard mouths

Pales away the pyramids

Rewriting 4,500 years of history


[Verse 4]

Raping the statue of liberty

Outplays the acropolis

Inverting the fjords

Invades the N.Y. skyline to

Dream its own existence in one single final word


[Hook]

Jotun


[Chorus]

A body of black

That carried no reflection

Defying its own room

Un-earthly eggs of decreation


[Chorus]

A body of black

That carried no reflection

Defying its own room

Un-earthly eggs of decreation


[Verse 5]

Can we identify them

As the flint buried in our reptile skulls

Or the time-bomb coded in our DNA


[Hook]

Jotun


[Chorus]

A body of black

That carried no reflection

Defying its own room

Un-earthly eggs of decreation