Dust on the statues blood in the streets History whispers it never repeats Echoes of emperors in corporate suites Chained to the cycle chained to defeat The lesson in Rome's rise is the fall (fall!) The marble veins become cracks in the wall We stare at our screens they feasted in halls (hard fall!) Doomed to collapse rinse repeat it all? Ash in the air shadows grow tall Bankers and kings dancing at the ball Build the tower just to watch it crawl The higher we climb the harder we sprawl Are we the architects of our own pain Sowing the seeds for a fiery rain The lesson in Rome's rise is the fall (fall!) The marble veins become cracks in the wall We stare at our screens they feasted in halls (hard fall!) Doomed to collapse rinse repeat it all? Sands in the hourglass slipping away Empires crumble no matter who prays Bones in the soil where the golden roads lay We think we're eternal but we're just the claymore