Akira The Don, Paul Harvey - The World Has Gone In Circles lyrics

About 290 years after Christ a Roman
Emperor named Diocletian took over
He really grabbed the bull by
The horns he took over in a period of
Turmoil and severe depression
The first thing Diocletian did was
Call in the gold
And closed the banks and raised the taxes
He reduced the power of
The Senate delegated it's
Power to a lot of little government burеaus
Do you know they even had
A Transportation Act back thеre?
Prescribing the fee required to rent one
Laden ass per mile and at
Today’s rate of exchange it would
Have amounted to about 1 8th cent per mile?
Which meant that in order to make a profit a
Jack ass would have to carry five passengers
That was simply beyond the capacity
Of the jack ass
Diocletian put millions of people
On the public payroll, but when this
Failed to do the job, the
Country was still in trouble
He asked more personal powers for himself
For a brief while, incidentally
They were standby
Powers, but then he used them, all at once
He froze wages, he froze
Prices, he froze jobs, he stopped
Profit's, he dictated to the farmer
What he should plant
When and how he should sell it and for how
Much and he rationed food and what happened?
The labor market closed down
Incentive was gone
Farm life became dependent on
Bureaucratic red tape
Exorbitant taxes cost the farmer his land
He kept for himself only a small plot on
Which he might grow turnips for his family
He lost the rest of it to the state
And without food and with incentive gone
City life stagnated and declined
And Rome past into what history has
Recorded as the "Dark Ages
Lasting a thousand years
Lasting a thousand years

Just by turning to the left
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
Just by turning to the left
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles

A nation would evolve from a monarchy, into
An oligarchy, from oligarchy to dictatorship
From dictatorship
To bureaucracy, from bureaucracy to
Pure democracy where, finally
The people would cry out from
The chaos and confusion of
The streets "Oh! Please God give us a king!"
And God would give ’em a
King and they’d have a
Monarchy again and start the
Whole silly cycle anew
Now either we will profit from
The errors of their ways
Or it follows as the night
The day, our children are going to have to
Relive the dark ages, all over again
All over again

Just by turning to the left
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
Just by turning to the left
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
The world has gone in circles
All over again, all over again
The world, the world has gone in circles
All over again, all over again
The world, the world has gone in circles