Momus - The Rape of Lucretia lyrics

O Dr Faust I've got a pain
Where I sit on the throne
Where an Englishman's home is his kingdom

You've got blue blood on the brain
But, I know a Roman sanatorium
Where they'll cure you with a story
From 2500 years ago:

The Rape of Lucretia

Abroad I shall not go
The past, so they say, is a foreign country
And abroad equally so

Since you stubbornly insist
I'll administer the history of democracy
Beginning when a woman was done by
The son of the king:

The Rape of Lucretia

Romulus and Remus orphans of the forest
Grow to their majority
Throw up their hands in horror
The democratic gesture
When Sextus puts his Sextus where
No king should he singing `We who are about
To die salute thee!' the Rape of Lucretia

I should've guessed
That a doctor named after
The self-confessed lover
Of Mephistopheles would say `Take two
Of these after meals
And mean leeches - for all your fine speeches
Your anthem is `Where the beast
Sucks there suck I'

You may set your mind at rest
My soul's not with the devil but the NHS
And although I am loathe to
I've taken an oath to
Cure people like you who
Think SPQR stands for
'Sense Prevents the Queen's Removal'
The Rape of Lucretia

Romulus and Remus may your example lead us
Your brotherhood and merit be
Our guiding force you ushered in democracy
You understood that monarchy
Stands by incest, falls by sexual intercourse
We who are about to die salute thee!
The Rape of Lucretia