Timeless Towns and Haunted Places

(Nutra Stick Productions, 2003)

Rome

 


If we build Rome in a day today
No one can ever use the cliché again
And if everyone listens to what I say
No one will have to pay for their mistakes

If you end up trapped in time today
Trade your sundial for a watch as your escape
And if the gods won’t work ‘cause we changed their names
We’ll build a pantheon for who really makes our day

And then we’re going down to the forum
And we’re bringing along our megaphone masks
And we’re going to apologize
For all the empire’s done

When word got out that the empire fell
It couldn’t have been true
It all started out so good
And then came Caesar and then more Caesars
But we could start again
Let’s try it again

When word’s out that the Christians are on the way
We’ll lock up the art and let none of it escape
And ensure that two thousand years from today
Our descendants won’t be feeling too much shame


words and music © 2003 Jeremy Mathews