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postumus - marijke perry lyrics

i’ve been reading history books too much
and all that i get is paper cuts
when the storm clouds break and titans fall
all that our hands can do is crawl

but i fear the forgotten far more than i fear myself
and i’m sick of sycophants sitting on my shelf
who pays the price so that our kingdom come?
who is the sacrifice so rome won’t come undone?

do we all hail julius, the martyr of a king?
they cut him down in rome to bury him with revelry
but what of brutus then? a traitor to our age?
at least through pomp and circumstance he chose his war to wage

i don’t wanna praise the king no more
i’ve given up on ivory doors
i have heard thе bugle call for peace
thеn seen the fallen bleeding at the feast

and i’m sick of conquerors playing with our lives
when did the mundane become something to despise?
i don’t have to save the world to know i have a place
but you’ve been playing god*you’ve got to k!ll to save some face

so we hail octavian, the pious son of rome
said to harken peace in places he had steeped in bone
do we bear his fate again? to call his empire back?
our leaders fall upon themselves: americana pax
too much i see your faces*they fill me with disgust
your arrogance and l*st for power don’t become you
all throughout the ages you’ve garnered too much love
for someone so at fault for all the mess we’ve come to

i think of all the names we lost, the lives and loved ones overtossed*
tell me, did it hurt you when you crawled your way to h*ll?
i know that you changed history, but i’m so tired of k!ller kings
i want a softer story to tell

julius, octavian*they’re despots, through and through
i’m tired of textbooks wasting pages fawning over you
what of all the innocents lost to the hands of time?
i care more for the footnotes than the kings they call divine

- marijke perry lyrics

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