The Fall Of Claudius

(Album: The Thirteen Years Of Nero - 2021)

She's cast a spell on me
The leaves fall from the darkened tree
Still hypnotized by her
Agrippina, my goddess, my queen

Rise from the root of the hive
Rise from the blood of deceit and lies
The snakes are slithering
The stench of rot, lies beneath your paradise

Twisted are the sins of lust
Twisted are the sins of lust

All my life I was just and fair
Different but good
Different but good
All my life I was just and fair
Different but good
Different but good

Why have the gods forsaken me
Beneath the sorrow in disguise?
They called me crippled they laughed at me
The cries of vengeance always merciful

Still her beauty beholds me

Fear has overtaken me
The fallen ways of diplomacy
Taken by the grip of power

Crippled dysfunction
Possesses my being, my everything
Oh how this curse
Bestows the novelty in me, ripped by the bowels of hell

Of blood and fire
Of poison and death
Of gods and slaves
Of truth and lies
Of honor and death

I was just
I was
They laughed at me
They laughed at me
(The first betrayal
The wrath of fire
In her seductive eyes
Agrippina)

The mother of snakes...
Twisted are the sins of lust
Power turns to rust
I hear death calling my name my name my name

All my life I was just and fair
Different but good
Different but good
All my life I was just and fair
Different but good
Different but good

Why have the gods forsaken me
Beneath the sorrow in disguise?
They called me crippled they laughed at me
The cries of vengeance always merciful