Rome For Douglas

A penny for the old guy

In the time we were lost

And scarred in a moment

Tortured by doubt

And surrounded by ruins

Yours was the pleasure

And mine was the praying

The works of our lifetime

Lay crumbled in dust

And when Rome falls

Falls the world

It was blood that I gave you

And blood that you worshipped

And blood was your question

And blood was your answer

You spit in the fires

And eyes of desire

And snatched back the words

You kept locked in your head

And when Rome falls

Falls the world

And what did you give me?

A rusted bent death's head

A black flag that lies bleeding

A dawn that lies dying

We wandered through the rubbles

In the last breaths of morning

In the empty cathedrals

In a world that has ceased

And when Rome falls

Falls the world

And then make me feel

That the world still turn

When broken is the faith

That kept us alive

And where shall I go?

And if I do will I stumble?

Will anyone catch me

When I fall as I must?

And when Rome falls

Falls the world