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The Hands of War
02:09
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Troubled times
The balance of power is changing in Rome
Three champions spread supremacy
Willing to fight for pieces of the empire
Crassus, the richest man in Rome, usurer and extortionist
He enlarged his fortune in the shadow of Sulla
Triumphant in the Battle of Colline Gate
Exterminator of the slave revolt
The most opulent man of Rome
He tried his coveted metals in the Parthians domains
A shadow of greed grows
And there will be war over the ashes of the Empire
Pompey the Great, the young butcher
New man, climbed over the spoils of their opponents
Scourge of Gaius Marius
Sertorius executioner
Judge of pirates
Mithridates looter
Willing to roll the dice for being the first man in Rome
Caesar, will you be the winner of this terrible business?
Under the auspices of which God do you think you will destroy the Republic?
Funded by Crassus gold
Related to Pompey the Great
You have ravaged Gaul and stuffed your coffers
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The Gallic tribes rise up
Under pressure of Rome
A consecrated alliance
To recover freedom
The forces concentrate in front of the city
The legions are coming led by Caesar
After burnt soil, victories and defeats
We will build a wall around the city
Hunger and thirst will destroy them
We know that reinforcements will come
We will build another retaining wall outside
The Gallic leader prepares the defense
The cavalry attacks the construction
But finally, the works end
Locked, are required extreme measures
Women, children and elderly are thrown outside
And the Romans prevent their path
Caught between two walls
Die, contemplated in the despair
Here come the reinforcements
A double attack and we will kill them
Don’t despair companions
Seeing your families dying
Swords in the dark
The slaughter will begin
The die is cast for the city of Alesia
The die is cast for the Gallic nation
On the walls crash combined forces
At nightfall
Blood splatters the walls
The viscera fall from close formation
The flames light up the sky
Iron meets the bone
The legions contains the enemy
And the Germanic cavalry crushes the rearguard
The Gallic troops are defeated
Scattered across the nation
The city capitulated unconditionally
The chieftain Vercingetorix gives up his weapons
Under the eagle banner
To die strangled in the city of Rome
The die is cast for the city of Alesia
The die is cast for the Gallic nation
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Through the windstorm Caesar descends the rocks of Cenaurio
With seven legions following the footsteps of the enemy
After setbacks, laurels, glory and infamy
The armies faced in the vicinity of Pharsalia
Urged by his generals, Pompey, shadow of a great man
Decided to battle
And take down Caesar with a superior army
After a battle-cry, rain of darts
Weapons are drawn and there is a metal crash
The large Pompeian cavalry circle the flank
And put to flight the Caesarian riders
But after the Caesarian legions
Veteran cohorts appear
That in Caesar’s trick
Go out to meet the Pompeian cavalry
A tough clash between blood and iron
Enter the cohorts
And the riders, surprised and crushed,
turn tail and run
The front resists firmly
Until the flank is surrounded
The Pompeian front/ retreat in disarray
Leaving weapons and banners
Pushing to their camp
The enemy is embattled
A tough skirmish
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Sweat blinded your eyes and blood clots covered your body
The insignia collapsed and all seemed to turn into a nightmare’s
You felt an arm stretching out and a face placed on you gesticulating unrelated words
You lost sight of as a mirage and you felt like running between illusory mists
And the time seemed to stop until you felt the whisper of the waves
And staring at familiar faces you believed feeling your spirit beating again
And listening to the murmur of the waves you knew that the gods no longer guided you
Following sirens songs to a vague future
Until at last you stared at the land of Egypt
You thought in your allies, in mobilizing new legions to end this war in a setback
And when you reached the coast sorrowful you made clear that a plain procession was waiting
And in that moment you remembered Sophocles: “whoever is routed to a Tyrant, is his slave, although he has arrived free” you whispered
When you got off you recognized friendly faces and you examined a veteran
And when you shook his hand a sting broke your flesh
Some people say or remember seeing Caesar’s tears when he saw afterwards your motionless face on a tray
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Beware of the Ides of March
Caesar, tyrant king
Don’t laugh at the auspices
Envy, hate and avarice
Wielding cold metal
Cassius, Casca and Brutus
Names of shame
Caesar, tyrant King
Don’t laugh, the Ides haven’t finished
Caesar fooled is being led to the senate
His murderers escort him
Gazes of fear
Twenty-three dogs killing a wolf
Casca holds Caesar, the untouchable
What kind of violence is this?
Strikes the first stab
Help, brothers! Casca shouts
And the dogs came to the call
Dance of blood on the marble
The togas are twisted
Twenty knives going through the flesh
A body convulses
The remains lie
Under the gaze of the unperturbed
Pompey’s face
Marco Antonio collects them
And shows them to the people
The thirteenth legion
Lights the pyre of the tyrant king
The angry masses
gaze the spectacle
Shaky contract in blood
And his last breath
Covers the face with his cloak
Red tunics and red marble
Murderers of the Republic
Dance to the sound of impiety
Trampling the last values
Twenty knives going through the flesh
A body convulses, fighting for his life
In a bloody mouth
Last words arise
You too, Brutus?
So, Imperator Caesar rests
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Tereus «Tomb of his Son»
08:08
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The waves were carrying terror
Landing in Athenian lands
They were squashed by the big Pandion
Helped by the thracian Tereus
In his veins was running
The blood of God Ares
Sealed the Alliance
With the hand of the daughter
Of big Pandion, Procne
Under pernicious auguries
An owl extends his wings
In sign of the tragedy
The sun crosses five autumns
The docile swell transport a craft
The young Philomela
Madness and lust
Tereus rapes Philomela
And the iron seals the moment
The root of the tongue flutters
And the top murmurs convulsed
On the black floor
Catching an eternal silence
But Gods are not quiet they don’t even hesitate
Procne found her sister
One trembles
The other embraces her son
Confusing this way
Her anxieties of revenge
But she understands the terrible blood
That she embraces in her arms
And the revenge turns
Clearer than never
Start the banquet
Tereus fills his stomach
Looking around asks
Where’s our son?
Procne smiles and answers
What are you looking for, you have it inside
And throws to the father the bloody head
This way ended the reign of Tereus
Unfortunate tomb of his son
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