Judicator - Amber Dusk lyrics

Failure follows every step
And here’s the last leap that I took
Again, no punishment, just like Callinicum

For months we’ve withstood Gothic siege
We’re hanging on by a thread
All of these new recruit's we’ve pressed
They are not prepared
And yet I saw it fit to try to
Test their mettle

Blessed am I, standing aright
Gazing upon the fields below
So many times I could have died
Why am I preserved?

Cursed am I, turning away
Gazing upon the streets below
I see her once again with him
Antonina smiles

I call the men to arms and shout
"O stavros nika!"
We sweep into the fields beyond
The battle is raging
The new recruit's had pushed them back
But chose not to pursue
Instead they chose to loot the camps
This cost us victory

Amber dusk again, it happened once again
It burns, shredding my heart, oh it burns
Again, I’ll have to blame the men
Report they pressured me into the fight

Now recalled to Syria
He took upon himself a new restraint
With shepherd-like protectiveness he’d
Guide his men to fight the Sassanids

His young step-son Photius meanwhile was
Stationed in the capital
And there he saw his mother and
Theodosius renew their love affair

O spider mother
While you’re at play Belisarius
Fights off invaders
And yet you soil your husband’s
Bed with another man i’m yours no more

Photius rode to tell the man who took him
As a son that he had been betrayed
The rolling hills of Syria are
Black against the glorious
Ember laden sunset

Step by step he strode and
Knelt before the man
There I spoke it all, and after, silence fell
After much endured, the man had finally broke

As darkness falls
Belisarius turns ‘round to face his step-son
As darkness falls his heart is hardened – no
More could he now endure

As darkness falls the two embraced and swore
To uproot the decay as darkness falls
The two declared this mire of
Sin would be drained