Fall Of Rome

Crushed by the weight of your system of lies
Slaves to the state who no longer comply
Stretched to the brink and low on supplies
This is how a kingdom dies.

RISE FALL, THE GREAT ROMAN EMPIRE
BEGINS TO WITHDRAW
CHARGE, RIDE, THE SACKING OF ROME IN 455
A LEGACY ONCE SO STRONG
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS NOW IT'S GONE.

A fleet built in Carthage by Vandals
Invaders and they're charging ahead
Elites dressed in robes and their sandals
Soon will be covered in red.

The king and the emperor's daughter
Were to wed to try to make peace
The Valentinian slaughter
Would mean that the treaty's deceased.

The reign of the Romans, a warning most dire
Never before and never again
Against the oppressors the world will conspire
Cowards will lose and conquerors win.

Crushed by the weight of your system of lies
Slaves to the state who no longer comply
Stretched to the brink and low on supplies
This is how a kingdom dies.

RISE FALL, THE GREAT ROMAN EMPIRE
BEGINS TO WITHDRAW
CHARGE, RIDE, THE SACKING OF ROME IN 455
RISE, FALL - LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND
THEY ARE TAKING IT ALL
CHARGE RIDE
LEGIONS OF WARRIORS SWORN TO DEFY.

A new man would now make Rome whole
For only two months would he have control
Petronius Maximus followed
And betrayed the previous pact
He married Eudocia to his own son
Then King Gaiseric just cracked.

Maximus heard news of invasion
He tried to escape and to flee
His own people stoned him to death
And threw his remains in the sea.

The reign of the Romans, a warning most dire
Never before and never again
Against the oppressors the world will conspire
Cowards will lose and conquerors win.

[Second Chorus]

The Romans' time had now come
The and of it all had begun
Warlords invade from the wildlands
They've become much more than just pests
They march on the capital city
And pierce Centurion vests.

Senators and emperors cower
As the once proud city is sacked
All of its riches devoured
Their center of power attacked.

In 533 all the Vandals were slain
Wiped from existence a single campaign
Into North Africa Romans would strike
Thousands of Vandals their heads on a spike.