(Lyrics)

You have never known my name
You were never told my deeds
Inheriting the life of a slave
The only world you’ve ever seen

If you read this note then I am gone
The man I was has long since past
To join our host in the life beyond
As the great Zalmoxis laid this path
For my people
For my grandson

Dear Cotizo, the worst is past
As Sarmi’s walls are laid to rest
I wish for you a simple life
A life untouched by such regret
I buy your freedom

To you I leave this will
Bequeath the lot of my estate

In Serdica, where I’ve died alone
Anonymous in wealth and in plain sight
As Claudius Marcus Varus
I charge you now to set this right
And never hide the man you are
Learn your history and our ways
Rome was built on Dacian blood
While our great cities lay in flames
Don’t forget it

We’re the only true children of the wolf
The great Carpathian architects
Or kingdom stretched from the Black Sea’s coast
To the peaks of Berzobis in the west
Alone we toppled the Macedonian,
Alexander’s own general Lysimachus,
As our Draco’s howls were driving him out
A she-wolf’s teat was drained by Romulus
And Remus, the great imposters,
If only she’d left them to die
But a race of parasitic worms was born
To rape and steal what they could not buy
All my failures haunt me now
For the lives we gave in vain

To think we once all shared a vision
But that was war against Domitian,
An oligarch and simpleton
Who wasn’t fit to wear the crown
Or wreathe of Empire
Now all our temples lie in ruin
My wife and children, all were taken
Decebal, our last great hope
Cornered by Roman cavalry
Slit his own throat

And though my eyes have been blind these many years
My waking dreams are set upon by faces of the dead
My son’s last breath, passes from his broken frame
The ashes of our home carried on a bitter wind
Through it all
Our King and champion
Decebal
Led us forward
To the death
To the very last
And for what
Did it ever come to this?

I was born Bikilis
Right hand to a warrior king,
Who stood against the legions
And brought an empire to its knees,
Now some may call me traitor,
For in truth, I broke a vow
Of silence to our liege,
They say I sold my people out
For gold and trinkets
And Trajan’s mercy
To save my worthless skin,
A craven without honour
Despised my own kin
Out of shame
My first born left me

These words I leave to you
A cautionary tale
Of triumphs built to shame
And desecration’s woe
To understand my legacy
And know the burden of a dream
How all we built was ripped away
To feed the Roman war machine!
Don’t forget it!

COTIZO

(Lyrics)

Becoming the warrior

Into the Wilderness he walks, the boy they call Bikilis
In a bid to prove himself a man, a worthy Dacian soldier
His training’s complete, it’s time to compete against the mythical beasts and prove himself a soldier
A man of the wolf, a figure of pride with destiny on his side, there’s nothing that can stop him
In becoming the warrior

There are times where we all must rise
To prove who we are
Take heart in the darkest night
Doubt can kill us all
Only in the heat of battle
Can heroes be born
Sometimes fear is price we pay
To ride through the storm
The Storm
Step forward our protagonist…

As he drew nearer
The monster awaits
The air grew cold
Anticipation took hold
Out the darkness came the beast

Into the eyes of the beast he stared, their fates entwined
One of them will never live to see the light of day again
The moment had come, the battle begun, in spite all he’d done, he found himself now grounded
Beaten and bruised and slightly confused, admitting the truth, he wasn’t good enough
At becoming the warrior

There are times where we all must rise
To prove who we are
Take heart in the darkest night
Doubt can kill us all
Only in the heat of battle
Can heroes be born
Sometimes fear is price we pay
To ride through the storm
The Storm


As he lay beaten, at the mercy of the beast
Out came Decebal to save this young man’s life

His pledge
To The Brave
Went…

“To the one they call Decebal
Who saved my life
I owe him my hand in war
I owe him pride
And should I help him become our king
I know he’ll restore our greatness
And I will give everything I have
To serve my country, help Dacia prevail
Take control with an iron fist and destroy every single enemy we have”

This is the moment that beckons war
The pledge that will leave lands scorned
Families killed and armies slain
Thousands of lives to be touched by pain

BECOMING THE WARRIOR

Dismanibus' cover of 'Lift' by Vixation for the compilation CD Writer's Block - Local Musicians Covering Local Music in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.  Buy the album here... http://writersblockalbum.bandcamp.com/album/local-musicians-covering-local-music

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