The Last Strumpet Sounds

A massive bleeding heart will swallow central axis poles Across a tundra it will snow, access recess of the world And that absent, pleading province dominates peripherals And when tired of the scope and of the breadth of the known world Then contemplate what it might take to occupy Germania And then decimate their ranks and pillage villages abroad With allegiance to the legions, bleeding massive Roman heart Trial, fire, smoulder ashes, blunder, nation fall apart Triumphant imperator quell time The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're runnin' around, it's goin' down The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're runnin' around, it's goin' down The last strumpet sounds screamin' out It's runnin' around, it's goin' down A weak barbarian surrender territory lines Annexation past the Rhine, crucifix matter of time Made example of by fire, treason trials, burn them all Pin them up against the wall, cart them off, enslavement clause And with nothing left but loss itself, morale like broken spines Tribute treaties, Archimedes, hydrostatic serpentine Making movements draped by night, motion silence, cut supplies Predator becomes the prey, they're hydrophobic, I make waves The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're runnin' around, it's goin' down The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're goin' around, it's goin' down The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're runnin' around, it's goin' down The last strumpet sounds screamin' out They're runnin' around, it's goin' down