Amber Dusk

Failure follows every step
 And here's the last leap that I took (Here's the last leap that I took)
 Again, no punishment, just like Callinicum
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 For months we've withstood Gothic siege
 We're hanging on by a thread
 All of these new recruits we've pressed
 They are not prepared
 And yet I saw it fit to try to test their mettle
 Blessed am I, standing aright
 Gazing upon the fields below
 So many times I could have died
 Why am I preserved
 Cursed am I, turning away
 Gazing upon the streets below
 I see her once again with him
 Antonina smiles
 I call the men to arms and shout, O stavros nika
 We sweep into the fields beyond
 The battle is raging
 The new recruits had pushed them back
 But chose not to pursue
 Instead they chose to loot the camps
 This cost us victory
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 Amber dusk
 Again, again, it happened again
 Amber dusk
 It burns, shredding my heart, oh it burns
 Amber dusk
 Again, I'll have to blame the men
 Amber dusk
 Report they pressured me into the fight
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 Now recalled to Syria
 He took upon himself a new restraint
 With shepherd-like protectiveness
 He'd guide his men to fight the Sassanids
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 His young stepson Photius
 Meanwhile was stationed in the capital
 And there he saw his mother and Theodosius renew their love affair
 O spider mother, while you're at play
 Belisarius fights off invaders
 And yet you soil your, your husband's bed
 With another man
 I'm yours no more
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 Photius rode to tell the man
 Who took him as a son that he had been betrayed
 The rolling hills of Syria
 Are black against the glorious, ember-laden sunset
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 Step by step, he strode and knelt before the man
 There I spoke it all, and after, silence fell
 After much endured, the man had finally broke
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 As darkness falls
 Belisarius turns 'round to face his stepson
 As darkness falls
 His heart is hardened, no more could he now endure
 As darkness falls
 The two embraced and swore to uproot the decay
 As darkness falls
 The two declared this mire of sin would be drained