I still hear the screams of my lover torn from me
Still taste the salt of her tears on my face
As they left me for dying my
shattered corpse writhed
On a pyre of anger - I choked on the stench of disgrace.
Flint and bone are all we wield
Against the
might of Roman steel
While eagles stare with mocking eyes
Their legions cut us down to size.
R'Vannith, R'Vannith, R'Vannith
she cried
As the last of her kinsmen fell dead by her side
Oh why could I not stand with my warrior queen
There to share sweet
release in a death swift and clean?
From out of the wildwood they came down upon us
These olive-skinned butchers that shone like
the sun
With hate in their dark eyes they robbed us of our lives
But left me to weep when the slaughter was done.
Invaders
came to violate - to subjugate and legislate
Put our homes and farms to fire to feed the greed of their Empire
R'Vannith,
R'Vannith, R'Vannith I cried
As I grieved for the fallen - and wished I had died
I heard ravens laugh - stripping the flesh from her
bones
Well fed by the Senate and People of Rome.
Two thousand years pass by - yet still they hold sway here
Their Empire is
holy (its motives the same)
They have traded their spears for the cross that man fears
Those who nailed Him up high now rule in his
name.
Invaders come to violate
To subjugate and legislate
Believing their forefather's crimes
Give them the right to twist
our minds
R'Vannith, R'Vannith, R'Vannith we'll cry
When the last of our freedom is crushed by a lie
New legions of pious
hypocrisy ride
To baptise us in blood (an unstoppable tide).
