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Prince of this world, you've meddled in the affairs of mankind since the beginning From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, whose gigantic pyramidal tombs had been built primarily by slave labor A living testament to man's ingenuity and cruelty Then you were behind the Assyrian reign, carnage was the calling card hallmark these fierce kings signed whenever they came But the Babylonian kingdom you really liked a lot, ancient free market traders and slavers Their god was commerce; they bought and sold any and everything, they trafficked in any and every whatnot Then came those warring factions of Persians and Medes, pure lovers of aristocratic indulgences of greed They would fight you to the death, until the Greeks came along and became the gold standard, the best They loved to preach democracy, they loved to practice idolatry For every god you said you had, those Greeks said they had three The Greeks fell to the next kingdom, not so much by war, more through debauchery But the prince of this world came out of the shadows, and was moved to want to rule when the Romans came They had them lying cats named Caesar, and crucifixion was their favorite capital punishment game The Romans learned a lot from their fellow Greeks; give the conquered their councils, give them a voice with a vote Then let them exercise it wickedly, declaring the innocent Jesus Christ guilty Oh, the prince of this world was as ecstatic as a mad despot can be The Romans were the best kind of servants --- they were cruel, they were hard They killed you dead with no regard But alas, even their mighty kingdom came to an end Since then, all of his wicked servants and their feudal kingdoms have served him well But alas, it was the Roman kingdom he brooded over the most when it came to an end And it's been a long time, since the prince of this world had a Caesar he could call friend
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