From the recording Satan's Generals (4)
Julius Caesar's Emperorship
Lyrics
Hail Caesar Lyrics by Virus Inc
Born to ash and blood,
by the Tiber’s black flood.
Young wolf with a thin blade,
learning war in the shade.
He crossed hungry borders,
broke the law’s old orders.
Mud on his shins, iron in his hand,
eyes on a dying land.
Marching through the bone-white snow,
one more oath, one more blow.
He took the fear and wore it like a crown,
then burned the old walls down.
Hail Caesar, blood and bone!
Hail Caesar, carve the throne!
Rise, rise through the slaughtered years!
Fall, fall into traitor tears!
Hail Caesar, blade in the rain!
Hail Caesar, crowned in pain!
One name carved in the Roman sky—
then knives came singing, “die.”
Rivers choked with helmets,
fields full of broken promises.
A nation bent to his fist,
every victory a fistful of mist.
He stood in gold at the edge of Rome,
heard the crowd call him home.
But power rots in a man’s own grin,
and vultures learn to wear a friend’s skin.
Alae of fear, walls of spite,
all his enemies fed the night.
He reached for the world with a trembling hand,
and sealed his fate in sand.
Hail Caesar, blood and bone!
Hail Caesar, carve the throne!
Rise, rise through the slaughtered years!
Fall, fall into traitor tears!
Hail Caesar, blade in the rain!
Hail Caesar, crowned in pain!
One name carved in the Roman sky—
then knives came singing, “die.”
Ides of March
blackened the hall,
trusted faces
watched him fall.
Brutus, Cassius—
steel in disguise,
loyal mouths
with death in their eyes.
He tried to stand,
he tried to spit,
but empire bled
from every hit.
Hail Caesar, blood and bone!
Hail Caesar, carve the throne!
Rise, rise through the slaughtered years!
Fall, fall into traitor tears!
Hail Caesar, blade in the rain!
Hail Caesar, crowned in pain!
One name carved in the Roman sky—
then knives came singing, “die.”
Rome still shakes
when the raven's cry.
Caesar rose.
Caesar died.