Alexander's Greek Empire

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A boy with a storm in his eye
Crossed the dust and the river line
Spearheads rose at the chariot wheel
Blood on the bronze, a kingdom to kneel
He bit the sky with a hungry grin
Marked every gate, then carved it in

From Pella to the far black sand
He took each crown with a strategic hand
The earth shook hard under marching fire
He fed the march on iron desire

Alexander, strike
Alexander, rise
Burn the old world down
Take the broken crowns
Alexander, strike
Alexander, rise
Empire in your wake
Till the heavens shake

Tyre in flames and the walls came down
Dust like a shroud over sacred ground
Gaugamela split beneath his blade
Kings turned pale where the dead were laid
Nile tide sang through the reed-bed night
He wore the stars like a stolen light

From Persia's gates to the eastern snow
He drove the dead where the wild winds blow
Each new banner was a fresh star
Each conquered field a bleeding scar

Alexander, strike
Alexander, rise
Burn the old world down
Take the broken crowns
Alexander, strike
Alexander, rise
Empire in your wake
Till the heavens shake

The sands spoke back in a serpent voice
Victory laughed, but death made a choice
At Babylon, under fevered skies
The fire in him split and dried
No wall, no god, no blade of war
Could bind the crack in the conqueror

Break, break
Break the gate
Stone to dust
Name to fate
Boom of the earth
Roar of the blade
King on the pyre
Torn and laid

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Empire fades
His breath runs thin
A crown bent
And the end within