Roman Stone

[Part One: Foundation] Mark out the ground Lay claim to the land Level the valleys Build a bridge across the water New walls for the city New roads through the hills New stories to be written And legends to be made Now look upon their works Under a different sky Half a world away Farmers and soldiers From the fields to the frontline Return home with new gods Taken from another The last day of kings Broken made whole again Made stronger with stone And blood and bone Now look upon their works Under a different sky Half a world away A wall across the land Ruins made by giants Still standing after storms [Part Two: Rise] [Instrumental] [Part Three: Ne Plus Ultra] Sail the rivers and the seas Cross the mountains and the plains Explorers and soldiers Merchants of fire Bring peace of a kind An absence of war Fetching water from the hills Throwing buildings up to the skies Make iron for the ploughshares And weapons of war Trade new gods for old gods Make them their own All things must pass Dawn down to dusk All stories have an ending The first and the last Eagles taking flight Carriers of light Three thousand miles From the wall to the water The generals of empire Bring riches of war All things must pass Dawn down to dusk All stories have an ending The first and the last Outside of these walls Great armies will rise New orders are born And cities will fall [Part Four: Fall] [Instrumental] [Part Five: Legacy] Here at the end of all roads Broken in a scatter of stone A thousand years have passed Lights are dimmed and fires burn cold Time has weathered the walls As rain is the ruin of snow Far now from the centre of it all Distant from the highways and heartlands An eagle gone to ground With the better part of mankind Now shadows that shelter behind Fifty feet of all Twelve miles and more Here were legends born Here were stories made and told In one city the whole worlds ends As a tumbledown of alls Its stones the bedrock of us all