Roman Times - David Knopfler

Roman times, Catholic sin

Salute the last sky with a lipless grin

Ghosts remembered do it again

As the war to end all wars begins

As the war before the war…

(A Star of David spins)

As the war before the war

To end all war begins

Beowulf and the Minotaur

Stalking dusty kings

Delve into the Book of Life

Strange imaginings

In a book of revelations

Where angels lose their wings

When the seventh seal is broken

The war to end all war begins

In the Juniper’s salt stripped bark

The locust crying sings in the dark

There’s a hole in the sky

Where time gets in And sun and rain

And the wind begin

It’s everything you’ve ever wanted everything

It’s everything you’ve ever wanted everything

Beware the Beast in the final hour

Wheels no longer turning

How do we withstand this power

Babylon is burning

A thief in the night in the fall of Rome

Strikes in the Colleseum

The Merchants slam their message home

But no one will, no one will believe them

In the war before the war…

(A Star of David spins)

As the war before the war

To end all war begins.