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IN PRAISE OF ROME

from Welcome The Stranger by David Benjamin Blower

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If you want to know what my country believes in anymore
My country believes that Caesar is lord
And imperial peace comes at the end of a sword
And peace is for free trade and trade is all
And no, we have no trouble doing business with regimes
Who still practice crucifixion on dissidents and thieves

Ay-ay-ay this ain’t the Good News to me

There is war in heaven as British bombs fall
Out of Saudi airplanes and onto Yemen’s poor
And the news hardly bothers to report it anymore
Because empire is empire and will always be at war
Because my country believes that Caesar is lord
And imperial peace comes at the end of a sword

Ay-ay-ay this ain’t the Good News to me

Petrarch said all history is nought but praise of Rome
Where now’s the generation who will stand and prove him wrong?

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from Welcome The Stranger, released May 23, 2016

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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