The Ballad of the Red Flame Lily - Rome

On this day all the trees in Rhodesia are aflame

As the eyes of the griever

With flowers of aching replete

And my mind’s overflowing with vengeance

For to pine is not an occupation but a sentence

And in time we will all be faking retrat

Have you got rid of it yet?

This faith corroded with neglect

Can we ever hide the hurt?

At least at night the harvest sun’s yoke

Is rising like rebel smoke

Beyond the oceans in swirls

And it will shame us now

And it will shame us still

It was wrong to come here

I was wrong to come here

What a hollow promise from hollow men

What a shallow grave for shallow men

You’re the bull that paws the earth

The leopard that teaches to run

You’re the crocodile that eats the sun

So we walk on through and beyond the failures of men

And we know there’s a void at the centre of everything