《Song for Cleomenes》歌词

[00:00:00] Song for Cleomenes - The Mountain Goats

[00:00:04] 73 years before the advent of the christian era

[00:00:09] As rome was taking over any land within reach

[00:00:14] Setting up proxy governmnents in the conquered lands

[00:00:19] There lived one such man given just such a job

[00:00:25] Gaius verres go

[00:00:48] A praetor held a position which operated on trust

[00:00:55] He was to govern instead of the emperor himself

[00:01:01] It was an easy easy privilege to abuse

[00:01:06] And verres did so

[00:01:21] He was the governor of agrigentum which we now know as sicily

[00:01:26] And he stole everything that wasn't nailed down

[00:01:30] Took improper advantage of other men's wives

[00:01:34] The list goes on trust me

[00:01:36] Cicero wrote it all down

[00:01:52] At syracuse verres welcomed a band of pirates

[00:01:57] They all drank and danced and sang on the shore

[00:02:01] And when the husband of one of verres's paramours

[00:02:04] Came bringing a fleet of boats with him

[00:02:10] Verius clever if diabolical gave him a job

[00:02:19] And enlisted the pirates to burn the whole fleet down

[00:02:35] The boats burned in the sicilian harbor

[00:02:45] The flames rose hundreds of feet into the air

[00:02:56] We stood on the shore watching them burn we stood

[00:03:09] On the shore we heard the old songs hey