When the Hammer Falls

Look! here come the people's army,
Marching through the center of town,
Heading for the citadel up on the hill,
Gonna burn the whole thing down.
Flames licking over the roof tops,
Crackle on the blackening beams,
A-fizzin' and a-poppin' as death rains down,
On a city of forgotten dreams.

Smokey fingers reach up skyward,
Probing for the home of the Gods,
The Gods are looking down with tears in their eyes,
At the baying of the angry mobs.
The great and the good all gathered,
The mightiest now rendered small,
All shaking with fear up there on the scaffold,
Waiting for the hammer to fall.

Welcome to the brand new order,
Defenders of this brave new world,
Take your seats down at the theatre of blood,
Where the horror show will be unfurled.
Now we've got a "people's council,"
A tyranny in all but name,
The strangest thing about a revolution,
Is how everything stays the same.

Let the hammer fall,
Let the hammer fall,
Let it fall down where it may,
But don't be surprised,
If it's you they come for,
At the dawning of the judgement day.

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so cool bassMonkey :W

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Thanks for the f/b Nick. I appreciate it <3

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is this of the times of gladiators, empires, chariots, etc?

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It's probably more rooted in myth and fantasy - though for a civilisation to be as sophisticated as is suggested and still have multiple Gods you could make a case for Rome, Greece, Babylon or similar.

At the heart of it though, it's basically an allegory along the lines of "be careful what you wish for". Too often in history you see one bunch of murderous a-holes overthrown by another claiming to "liberate" the man or woman on the street who finds themselves just as screwed as before.

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