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From: Deceit (1981)
Lyrics:
Through dirty net curtains
You look at me
Why is it I can't see through to you?
The mesh, it is in your favour (Under my steady gaze)
How will you move (Frozen mid-step)
When the angles are reversed? (You cannot move)
Triumph of the will (triumph of the will)
Amo, amas, amat
Amamus, amatis, amant
We are all Romans, unconscious collective
We are all Romans, we live to regret it
We are all Romans and we know all about straight roads
Every straight road leads home, home to Rome
Two plus two equals four
Four plus four equals eight
We organize via property as power
Slavehood and freedom, imperial purple
Pax Romana!
Suckled by a she-wolf, we turn against our brother
Bella, bella, bella
Bellorum, bellis, bellis
Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered
We're all Romans, unconscious collective
We are all Romans, we live to regret it
We are all Romans and we know all about straight roads
Every straight road leads home, home to Rome
Two plus two equals four
Four plus four equals eight
We organize via property as power
Slavehood and freedom, imperial purple
Pax Romana!
Suckled by a she-wolf, we turn against our brother
Bella, bella, bella
Bellorum, bellis, bellis
Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered
We're all Romans
From Charles Hayward’s liner notes to the 2016 vinyl reissue of Deceit:
“The lyrics [to Triumph] are at a microscopic level, a brief instant, someone looking through net curtains at another walking up the front path. Seen and not seen. Basic power structure.”
“SPQR was also recorded at Mekon and is at the other end of the scale lyrically, a cultural view of history and logic and expedience and how we are inside that, too.”
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
From: Deceit (1981)
Lyrics:
Through dirty net curtains
You look at me
Why is it I can't see through to you?
The mesh, it is in your favour (Under my steady gaze)
How will you move (Frozen mid-step)
When the angles are reversed? (You cannot move)
Triumph of the will (triumph of the will)
Amo, amas, amat
Amamus, amatis, amant
We are all Romans, unconscious collective
We are all Romans, we live to regret it
We are all Romans and we know all about straight roads
Every straight road leads home, home to Rome
Two plus two equals four
Four plus four equals eight
We organize via property as power
Slavehood and freedom, imperial purple
Pax Romana!
Suckled by a she-wolf, we turn against our brother
Bella, bella, bella
Bellorum, bellis, bellis
Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered
We're all Romans, unconscious collective
We are all Romans, we live to regret it
We are all Romans and we know all about straight roads
Every straight road leads home, home to Rome
Two plus two equals four
Four plus four equals eight
We organize via property as power
Slavehood and freedom, imperial purple
Pax Romana!
Suckled by a she-wolf, we turn against our brother
Bella, bella, bella
Bellorum, bellis, bellis
Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conquered
We're all Romans
From Charles Hayward’s liner notes to the 2016 vinyl reissue of Deceit:
“The lyrics [to Triumph] are at a microscopic level, a brief instant, someone looking through net curtains at another walking up the front path. Seen and not seen. Basic power structure.”
“SPQR was also recorded at Mekon and is at the other end of the scale lyrically, a cultural view of history and logic and expedience and how we are inside that, too.”
