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Rat...
Singidunum dogged prize
Blemished regal Hapsburg pride
Čast...
Twice repelled by Serbian forces, reinforced by Saxon hordes
Krv...
Surrounding The White City
Germans lead their third assault
Out manned and outgunned the battered kingdom made its stand
Final hour now at hand
Combat worn, steadfast resolve
Mackensen crossed the Danube
Pitched battle as cannons rained, Kalemegdan their last hope
As all looked lost, ruin drew nigh
For their king willing to die
Serbia land of Slavs gasping for its final breath
Dragutin Gavrilović
The major boldly ordered
That his men lay down their lives
Charging forth, honor in death “for the king and fatherland”
Rat...
Čast...
Krv...
Smrt...
Duh ...
Trust in his command, sacrifice grand
For the homeland, honor demands last stand
With their grenades unleashed, bayonets thrust into breach
Enemy fire shatters their corps as battle cries roar
The streets ran red, bloodshed
Otadžbinu, Kralja
Za Beograd
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Emissary Artifice
06:19
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Roman vassal kingdom, the lands of Judea ruled by Herod The Great
Achaemenid infiltration
Birth of a new King, foretold prophecy, destabilization was their ploy
First Persian Empire sent forth their Magi, deification they'd employ
The star of Bethlehem forecasts usurpation
Ahura Mazda's spies, seeking out a naive peasant
Come bearing gifts of riches and pleasures, monarchical treasures, for the boy
Preemptive measures, lessons and lectures, traveling westward, their convoy
In Bethleham
The priests found their boy, birthed to a known harlot of lowly stock
And prideless father descending from the bloodline of King David
Forged messiah
Abrahamic tale, the birth of a new King would fit their mold
A master of the frail, he was their pawn bought with gold
The Magi's shill
Nazarene, the lord of the meek, undermining the Herodian keep
Born of lies, rebellion prone, the malcontent began subverting the throne
Roman rule also at risk, his disciples were attached at the hip
Chaos, vandalism, treasonous rule, by Zoroastrian tool
Psalms of misery, vilifying dignity
The bastard Son of God, the fraud from Galilee
Sworn so long ago, to lay waste and to fallow
the lands of David for his lords, The Wise Magi
His seed takes hold
Pharisees take note, they must stamp out this vile sorcerer
Justice must be served by Roman law, for Judea, Crucified was Christ
But too little too late, his ministry took hold, the messiah martyr
The Wise Men's curse outlasting death
Sabotage, treason, warping of reason, forfeit of seizin plagued the land
Provocateur's Achaemenid stain infected his flock from there hence forth
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Deprivation Doctrine
06:15
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Starve
Ukraine, 1932 through 1933
Would pay the price for Soviet pride as peasant Kulak farmers died
Local patriots maligned
Vilified, undermined
Soviets reassigned, as to seize crop yields
Intelegencia shot
Famine, genocide with forethought
Collective school of thought, laying waste to fields
Die
His will, The Georgian Man of Steel
Pledged he would break this fertile land
Their grain appropriated for proletariat demand
Larders and livestock taken by the state
Their children were left to rot, starvation their fate
Agony, atrophy
Loss of faculties took hold
Strategy, tragedies, horrors untold
Taking flight, shot on sight
Sequestration through might
Stalinist oversight, as winter arrived
Plight
Famine taking millions
The young and old died first
Those caught scrounging scraps of food
Killed by the Red Army as thieves
Fallow, once proud land, terminus of toil
To their cries the world was deaf, crops buried to spoil
Eat the dead
Hunger drives a man insane, flesh, ravenous his pain
Insatiable this aching want to eat his kin and confidant
The Holodomor
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Terrors of the Steppe
06:40
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A terror sweeping across the vast Eurasian Steppe, dread, the death gallop
Scythians, the warriors of lore, riders of war, descending on tribes, lives forfeit to their arrows
Nomad kings
Askuzai, lords of the horse, battle cry signals their force
Tattooed corps., eagle and boar, lightning fast and in battle cast
Scyth, shock and awe, their calling card for centuries
Beheading their enemies, ascending into history, masters of war known for their barbarity
Scoloti
Fierce royals
Leaders of their savage war clans, Noblemen
Soldier women joining their ranks, death sirens, mercenaries
Continent ravaged by fear, Nineveh sacked by the horsemen
Commandeered gold and riches, profiteers menace the silk road
Raids... from The Black Sea to the far eastern reaches
Empires plagued, Achaemenids, Sarmatia battled the nomads, bloodshed rode by way of daunting war steeds
Scoloti
Fierce royals
Leaders of their savage war clans, Noblemen
Soldier women joining their ranks, death sirens, mercenaries
Hired by their rivals
Their long held horror campaign, dealt a blow by Macedonians
The Horse Kings loosing their reigns, further scarred by the Assyrians
Hellenized, weakened through trade, empire dealt a death knell
The Bosporans
Mithridates The Great King
From the vastest plains, the endless horizon, flowing through their veins, the blood of a million slain
Mostly myth remains of tyrants from the Steppe, villages in flames, the echoes of ancestral pain
Cries... heard in the wind
Skies... above their lost, empire of yore
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From Kurdish lines the falcon rose
The scimitar of empire's throes
Syria and Egypt crowned
The enigmatic Sultan was renowned
Christendom bound
Crusaders drowned
Capturing ground
The Lionheart by Britannia throned
With papal dictum and will of his own
Waged holy war, the Western accords
To vanquish the Ayyubid caliphate, decimate, eastern hordes
Will of The Lord
By flesh and sword
Blood in the sand
Sacrificed to The Holy Land
Oath sworn to God
Clashing marauders
Righteous facades
Followed commands of their tyrants
The Lionheart by Britannia throned
With papal dictum and will of his own
Waged holy war, the Western accords
To vanquish the Ayyubid caliphate, decimate, eastern hordes
Will of The Lord
By flesh and sword
Blood in the sand
Sacrificed to The Holy Land
Oath sworn to God
Clashing marauders
Righteous facades
Followed commands of their tyrants
Richard Lionheart, English monarch
The Crusader King, faced down his foe
Saladin the shrewd, Sunni Sultan
Battled Western might, for Jerusalem
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Krvoproliće i Propast
05:52
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Maj, selo Glina u čeljusti sile
Zlotvor, komšije Ustaše
Četrdeset prve, invazija Nemačka, opravdanje mržnje od vekova
Hrvatski rod je izdao svoje zemljake Yugoslavije
Prevara, komšija kolje komšiju nožem
“Blagoslovljen greh, istrebiti Srbina”
Mirko Puk, ministar vere, proglas, varvarstva
Fašista, podrškom Katoličkog Vatikana
Otac i sin su odvedeni, ubijeni
U Srpskoj crkvi zaključani, zapaljeni
Krvoproliće, svi muškarci su zaklani
Ustaška narav, krvožedna, istrebljenje naređen cilj
Nemilosrdan divljački klan
Ogorčen fanatičan član
“Hrvatska! Za Dom Spremni! očisčenje”
Ustaša, Srbosekom izdaje smrt “Za Dom”
Otac i sin su odvedeni, ubijeni
U Srpskoj crkvi zaključani, zapaljeni
Krvoproliće, svi muškarci su zaklani
Ustaška narav, krvožedna, istrebljenje naređen cilj
Nemilosrdan divljački klan
Ogorčen fanatičan član
“Hrvatska! Za Dom Spremni! očisčenje”
Ustaša, Srbosekom izdaje smrt
Odvedeni ubijeni
Zaključani zapaljeni, svi muškarci su zaklani “Za Dom”
Krv prolivena, i genocid je iz zapisa izbrisan
Izbeglice su pobegli u Srbiju, žene, mališani, beskućnici
Brat, otac, muž, ožiljci bivšeg života koji podseća na bol iz Banije
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Feasting from the Cradle
04:37
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Kosovo, their last stand, Ottoman, gateway to Europe's plunder
Serbia's, outnumbered knights, gathered to, defend the holy ground
Prince Lazar led, with Vuk at flank, protectors, of Christendom from the Turk
Scourge, Sultan Murat, conqueror of the Balkans
Gutted like a ram, at the hands of Obilić
Kosovo, their last stand, Ottoman, gateway to Europe's plunder
Prince Lazar led, with Vuk at flank, protectors, of Christendom from the Turk
Lambs, stolen children, forced to subjugate their kin
Janissary proselytes, drenched in blood to their shoulders
Surrounding their corps
On a Holy War
Jihad on their breath
Lazarević death
Serbia enthralled by the crescent moon
Endured chains of Turkish caliphate
Orthodox conversions
Turning brothers into enemies
Centuries languishing
Under the the thumb of a foreign state
Daughters despoiled sons eunuched
Leading to the cries for the first rebellion
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Peasantry Messiah
06:59
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Sâr
Marx
Ideology shaped a Stalinist warped ego
French colonial rule, justifying credo
Millions perished as fuel, ablaze in the pyre's revolt-the Marxist assault
Cambodia scorned, Bolshevist leader adorned
The Khamer Rouge, terrors striking from the jungle
Depredation as the city defense crumbled
Schooled in the west by Leninist creed
Making his countrymen bleed
He would not rest, Ho Chi Minh's behest
To transplant the revolution's seed
Power obsessed, dissension suppressed
Viciously lashing at rivals
Pol-Pot the cruel, a communist tool
Industry the new pariah
Peasantry his lone messiah
Capital thrown to the fire of reform
Saloth reborn
Pol-Pot took form
Phnom Penh taken by storm, by defilers in the night
Akin to viral blight, succumbing to the swarm
Forced out citizens, beaten till they all conform
Cast out denizens, education uniform
Toil in fields their lot, through battery they're taught, an existence fraught
Stolen property, subject to mockery, abject poverty, slavery
Quotas meeting yields
In the killing fields
Murdered by the guards
Bankrupt house of cards
Growing paranoia, executions commonplace
Loyalty requisite, peasants shot in the face
Rampant ceaseless death
Nation struggling for breath, the hopeless and doomed
Border power vacuum
Vietnam land-grab resumed, allies war consumed
Pol-pot ousted by foes he headed up north
The Khamer Rouge, terrors striking from the jungle
For twenty years as their forces slowly crumbled
Guerrilla war, their diminished army stumbled
Socialism run-amok failing in all but murder
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