Nero Tabulatur von Matt Pless (für Baryton)

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In the dawn of desperation
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When the peasants are beheading
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Every emperor with a golden crown
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First they'll stand with one another
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Then they'll turn against each other
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Under thunder on a battleground


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With their torches, tar and feathers
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Off to round up all the witches
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On a rail to run 'em out of town


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In a kingdom that's collapsing
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I'm relaxing on the ashes
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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You can dance around the fire
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With the hand that holds the power
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Or go cower with the gagged and bound
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While the vultures count the profits
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And the hawks are launching rockets
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In a garden growing mushroom clouds


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You can storm the ivory towers
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But the knight in shining armor's days
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Are numbered on the body count


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So I'm laughing up to heaven
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In the arms of Armageddon
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down
        Cm
You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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Where the tricksters and the grifters
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And the rich carnival barkers
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Sell their psalters to a spellbound crowd
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Buying tickets to the promise
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Of a better world a-coming
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Left with nothing when their hope runs out


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There's a lifeboat overflowing
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On a rising violent ocean
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In the darkness where the sailors drown


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But I'm smiling on an island
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By the tidal wave horizon
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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If you're screaming in defiance
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Are you David or Goliath
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When the riot rages all around
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Call it vengeance, call it justice
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Call it progress, call it selfish
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Either way I'm gonna have my doubts


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Maybe I'm just causing problems
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Thinking I know how to solve 'em
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So for once I'm gonna shut my mouth


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Waiting silent in the shadows
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Like a devil at the crossroads
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down
        Cm
You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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While the charlatans are shouting
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Propaganda on the mountain
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Truth is spoken to an empty house
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If you ask for my opinion
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Are you tryin' to make a difference
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Or find something to complain about


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When indulgence and consumption
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Leave a landscape of destruction
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Where it's far too late to turn back now


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I'll be moving on my own way
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Down the existential highway
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


        Cm
You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down
        Cm
You can find me playing fiddle
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Watching Rome burn down
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Playing fiddle watching Rome burn down


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