Million Dead Rise & Fall Lyrics:
the came from the east, they brought horses to our
cultivated lands, the gave power to our have-nots.
they took our culture, they brought new customs to
our burial grounds, broadened the bases of our
history. they came from the east, replaced our
despots with their caliphates, conquered but
tolerated our gods. they brought us wisdom, they
brought a zero to our tired calculations, they
guarded knowledge we'd forgotten. they came from
the east. byzantium (a city of moths) crumbled
into a dust that plunged europe into the dark.
constantinople (a metropolis of candles) brought
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light to our books as europe forgot how to read.
let's make this stage our rubicon, let's cast
a die, let's let history decide. and as i cross
it, i chase aeneas back to his ships, i bring the
rhythm back to the hips. and as rome is consumed,
as i fiddle this whisper tune on these strings,
friends, i have no need of your ears. so let's
make this stage our rubicon, our frozen rhine, our
yippie picket line – and i caesar hoffman! - and
as i cross it, i bring the central asian steppe
sweeping into the wilds of europe. i make my
bedroom rome, i make this city my home, i am remus
come from the dead, come to tell you all to sack
this city tonight, let's sack this city tonight,
because i always heard better in the dark. thus
immersed in barbarous longing
Lyrics: Rise & Fall, Million Dead [end]