What does it mean for an empire to fall?
What does it mean for the people living outside the wall?
They’ve been taking from the coffers and filling their cups
Now you check on your children and their all giving up
An arm to the governors, secrets to the state, give them the red oil, surrender the fate
‘Madame may I’ and ‘oh father please,’ on the tongues of men and from their knees
A finger to the sky but it sees all he does, it’s been over since the fire that first lit us up
What does it mean for an empire to fall?
What does it mean for the people living outside the wall?
Drag him in to the lions den, confess he will
Send him off to soft prison, he’ll learn to pay the bill
Everything is bright and grey where no one knows the night from day
From the bones of generations past, young men angry men, an eye toward wrath
He’ll pull down the walls and freshen the ground with blood of the tyrants and gods and cause the great flood
What does it mean for an empire to fall?
A long-last glory to those outside the wall