Decius - Professor Emeritus

I am the king of the world

Born greater than mortal men

Caesar Augustus, I rule all

But now the mud covers our eyes

I scream at the sky

As the rain pours down my face

And I cure the gods

As I stand at the end of my world

Although I know we are divine

I can still feel now in this place

Covered in filth by my side

Only the gods from here man know

Where two Augustii Ian and die

Lying at the edge of the empire

Without the divine fate of a pyre

No sacrifices as my body turns to dust

Only the muck and mice of Arbittus

I scream at the sky

As the rain pours down my face

And I cure the gods

As I stand at the end of my world

Although I know we are divine

I can still feel now in this place

Covered in filth by my side

Only the gods from here man know

Where two Augustii now reside

A large Gothic force

The superior Roman source

A battle lost, I truly feel the cost

Taken from the sky, In the mud I die

Under a carrion eye

No one to mourn

Only enemies' scorn

For laurels I was born

Now my body has been torn

No justice from the gods

No glories for my people to laud

Lying under a shield, I see no Elysian Fields

Here we lie, Here we alive

I scream at the sky

As the rain pours down my face

And I cure the gods

As I stand at the end of my world

Although I know we are divine

I can still feel now in this place

Covered in filth by my side

Only the gods from here man know

Where two Augustii have now died