They say it's the Fall of Rome
In the states, or the west, come again
All I know was that Rome wasn't the first that fell
And Rome won't be the last
Rome sat upon the fallen Troy
And that it self stood on mythic metropoli of legend lost
The driftwood beams float up from drowned Atlantis
Sunk below
In the abyss with the debris of Babel
And all the great big monuments of ancient days toward the Heavens
Thrust upwards with the birds and angels
All in themselves a vanity --
The impotent gesture of a rageful birdflip
Now in the dust buried
As the rain of the great deluge
Torrents down as ever
40 days and 40 nights
A Kali Yuga epoch
All iterations, recreations,
Remakes, sequels, soft-reboots
(Or reincarnations?)
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
Echoes of Eden's Fall
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
And even that primordial tumble
Is the shadow of an image
Of the angel's war
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
Time is a flat circle, after all
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
History 2
The same as the first
But more than before
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
History 2
Familiar to most
But all the old is new
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
History 2
I saw mushroom clouds reflected in a lake
Shining bright to blacken a sun or two
In the twilight of a battle I fought and lost
In Fallen Carcosa
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
History 2
The war has begun.
I know which side I'm on, do you?
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
It's History 2
And happening to you
You're in the middle of
The wizard-sorcerer war
(wizard-sorcerer war)
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
So what kind of mage are you?
It's History 2
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
So what have you fallen to?
It's History 2
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
It all comes down to this
It's History 2
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
Wizard or sorcerer
And what kind are you?
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
History 2
Happening to you
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
Say the magic word
(Say the magic word)
Say the word
(Magic word)
History 2
I saw mushroom clouds reflected in a lake
Shining bright to blacken a sun or two
In the twilight of a battle I fought and lost
In the hyperreal magic war
(Wizard sorcerer war)
(Echoes, echoes, echoes)
