Empire Over - Circa

Roman legionnaire in this life

Pledged to do or die

Marching onto battlefields

Awaiting the battle cry

Campaign after campaign

And graced by the god of war

Glory for ever more

I’ve died before and I will live again

Never knowing just where and when

I was there at the beginning

And I will be there when it ends

A witness to an age gone by

My garrison advancing on through another town

Leaving only scorched earth

The black smoke rising

Fueled by an empire

Conquerors of the day

With forces over extended

We fell back gradually

For all that we had defended

Ended up with our backs against the sea

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

I’ve died before and I will live again

Never knowing just where and when

I was there at the beginning

And I will be there when it ends

A witness to an age gone by

Seemed the gods had all left town

It’s only we the forsaken

All the temples falling

Fueled by the anger

Glory has gone away

With forces over extended

We fell back gradually

For all that we had defended

Ended up with our backs against the sea

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

As if our final sunset

Our guiding light dissolves

To see the mighty fallen

After so many years

I disappeared into the landscape

To become civilian

Citizen reappears

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall

The empire over

Witness to the fall