Left is the battlement and torn the curtain,
Bar Cochba, leader of the insurrection,
A new religion rises, much disputed,
But soon the emperors have been converted,
Attila´s Huns invade the Roman empire,
The Persians and the Byzantines still battle
By Muslims who have no respect for others
Charlesmagnes fights every country in existence,
Marauding Vikings terrorise their neighbours,
Otto conquers all lands between the waters
Jerusalem is captured, and with gritty
An absent king, Richard the Lionhearted
Pope Gregory IX has had a vision
The monarchies of France and England cherish
And when at last the Hundred Years’ War closes
The New World is discovered, the location
The Old World’s torn after the Reformation’s
All men are equal! All may say concretely
The Union battles Dixie as it happens
The bomb is finished now, and with intent
Mankind’s sadistic arrogance deranges
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the Roman troops are once again deployed,
and now Jerusalem´s defeat is certain:
the city falls, the temple is destroyed.
and all his loyal followers are slain;
they knew the oppressed themselves have to take action,
but found their strife for freedom was in vain.
and, while the movement in itself is torn,
the Christian church is widely prosecuted,
and countless martyrs for their faith are born.
and with the love of Christ their hearts are filled,
so, after being christened and alerted,
Theodosius has seven thousand killed.
and nothing seems to stop them on their course;
they live on blood of victims like a vampire,
but with their leader soon they lose their force.
and try to bring each other to their knees
for many years, and in the end they settle
for a fugacious Perpetual Peace.
the corners of the known world are explored,
and where they go, just like their Christian brothers,
they spread God’s love and justice with the sword.
and all his annexations have been blest;
as he’s a faithful leader of all Christians,
Pope Leo crowns him Emperor of the West.
the North of Europe and the British Isles;
no one is sure the harvest of his labours
will not be carried off by force or wiles.
of Europe, thus creating finally
the Holy Roman Empire, and he slaughters
all those who don’t accept Christianity.
determination Urban sends his corps:
to worship God inside the Holy City
they have to kill his creatures by the score.
has never had a prospect to displease:
he spends his reign abroad by killing Muslims
or being captured by his enemies.
that critics should be tortured ere they’re killed;
by establishing the Holy Inquisition
the will of God at last has been fulfilled.
their lands across the sea and fight for more.
The people rise against their kings and perish:
the victims of a hundred years of war.
as finally the Frenchmen overwhelm
the Englishmen, they launch the War of Roses
over the honour to oppress their realm.
for criminals, adventurers and poor:
by massacring the native population
the pioneers open the Western door.
success which by most leaders is despised;
in thirty years of slaughter Europe’s nations
discuss the proper way to love their Christ.
and freely what they think with solemn mien,
and those who don’t support our creed completely
may join the monarch on the guillotine!
to profit from the South’s economy,
and while the Northern slaves provide the weapons,
their Southern brothers by decree are free.
to study its effect before the peace,
History’s most macabre experiment
kills and deforms millions of Japanese.
our world, by force all problems have been solved
for twenty centuries; man never changes,
and yet some people claim we have evolved.