Parabellum

PARABELLUM

'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'
("If You Want Peace, (You Should) Prepare For War")

Watching high aggressors fall, let this dawn begin
Tendril flanks of open war severed like a broken limb
Breathless in the night, the gods of thunder take a life
This roar is insatiable
Nations die when empire calls, maps are scorched and lit
Blind obsession, overlords, tyrants and dictatorships
Frontiers that exist are on the brink of an abyss, redrawn

The incendiary screams decapitate a regime
Propaganda machines that mine their way into your dreams
Unimaginable themes of plight invade the mainstream
The nonsensical schemes that violate are obscene

My strategic counterforce edging closer in
Stealth-like, from a covert source
Fledging like resourceful djinns
Heaven goes to hell then 'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'
War whores who embrace the cause
Rain 'napoleon syndrome' down on history
Ten miles wide but two feet tall
Braying like a 'god squad freak'
Restless, in denial, cast asunder, such a brazen core

The incendiary screams decapitate a regime
Propaganda machines that mine their way into your dreams
Unimaginable themes of plight invade the mainstream
The nonsensical schemes that violate are obscene