Jedediah Parish - Belshazzar Blues текст песни

king belshazzar of babylon feasted with a thousand lords
praising gods of silver and the gods of brass and gold
sounds of lust and luxury they echoed down the hall
then came the writing on the wall

ghostly fingers wrote the words that filled the king with dread
mene mene tekel upharsin is what it said
wise men and astrologers could make no sense at all
of the message written on the wall

go fetch daniel of judah cried the queen to belshazzar
this great dreamer served your father nebuchadnezzar
daniel knew this prideful king was surely doomed to fall
when he read the writing on the wall

babylon will crumble you've been weighed and found too light
belshazzar the mighty king was slayed that very night
great cyrus of persia would soon be king of all
just as it was written on the wall

mighty god weighed belshazzar and stuck him down like swine
for his days were numbered just the same as yours and mine
so don't fear the bell that tolls or raven when he calls
but do fear the writing on the wall