Primordial - As Rome Burns

An epic song off To the Nameless Dead. (Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL for somewhat better sound quality)

Lyrics:

We are falling over the ends of the earth
So gather your children before you
And tell them these are the final days of all
And preach to the paupers
And sing to the slaves

I see you've chosen to lose your faith
To burn your bridges and lose your way
From mountain top to valley deep
From shore to cursed shore
What Nation
What State
What Land is this?
The wretched Tribe of Nero
Tribe of Nero!

Sing
Sing
Sing to the slaves
Sing to the slaves that Rome burns
(repeat)

Are our bones not dust?
Our blood not poison?
On my knees in the black light
Searching for salvation
Bitter redemption

So throw your dice and cast your shadow
You may look away
But your children will not...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Primordial
• As
• Rome
• Burns
• Metal
• To
• the
• Nameless
• Dead
• Irish
• Black
• Folk
• Pagan

[Valmarith]

I agree fully, you can see part of my exchange with a Swiss Nazi here on this video, in email he revealed just how racist he is. I love this song, I love Primordial and what they try to do. I love what they say in the Pagan Metal Documentery. They are not about race, they are inclusive not exclusive, there are things going on that should have nothing to do with race, and Racist and Nazis distract from the real issues and the real problems in this world.

[Valmarith]

I spit on the racist who use our ancestors to promote their political agendas. They do not honor their forefathers, they steal their name. All of Europe is connected, all of europe traded and accepted brothers and women from other Tribes from other lands before Rome came. We had a great bronze age, beautiful bath houses, fortresses taverns, villages, temples, fest halls. Our children played in the woods, our men drank and shared songs, we had music, happy times, long were the times of peace.

[FuckinLittleDreamer]

people need start thinking like together.

[LoneW0lfWinter]

It's funny how people think everything was fine until the Romans came, as if the Celtic and Germanic tribes were having a good time drinking beer and dancing around folk songs like treehugging carebears. Fact: Both Celts and Germans had a warrior culture and were more or less in permanent conflict with each other.

[PaleolithicMind]

And Rome, well, Rome is an Empire, Rome thinks of more & more, bigger & bigger but no goal. Nero is its tyrant, he thinks Me & Myself, so when Rome burns, he laughs. He doesn't see the bridges to the past, not even back to die-is-cast Caesar that led to Nero-Caesar. Loss of faith kills family, (throw dice instead), & even personal freedom is less, since everyone is Nero. People look for answers, some are moron killer answers. But sing to the slaves, because Rome is burning. Remember gods&SPQR.

[PaleolithicMind]

One guy said the part-- "What nation, what state, what land is this?" is the EU, apparently they have a saying, "One nation, one state, one land is this" or something. Well, I'm an American, so I know here we have (had?) a saying "from sea to shining sea", which sounds like the lyric, "From shore to cursed shore". And as for the part, "I see you've chosen to lose your faith, to burn your bridges and lose your way", that's the cynicism we've got now, which makes mockery of these sayings.

[hedbangr141]

@Valmarith Hate to break it to you but pre-Roman Europe wasn't all nice and rosy. Most people struggled to survive and there would have been much tribal warfare. Why do you think people in pre-Roman Northern Europe lived in fortified hilltop dwellings?

[Daarkvader]

@ASLAR91 I agree, i believe if they wanted to, Even Satanists and Christians can sit in the same room without killing/preaching to each other. the Problem in this world isnt religions or the lack thereof... the problem is people.

[Blackfrost149]

@GolliwoggMusic is there any Primordial song you don't approve?