The song recounts the story of the Second Punic War between Hannibal, the Carthaginian statesman and general, and Cato, the Roman soldier and senator. Told from the perspective of Cato, the song remarks on his hubris of seeking to make Rome (an otherwise lowly state at the time) a super power, best encapsulated by the line “the rise of an empire that rules over all, demands the other ones fall - Delenda Est Carthago - Carthage must be destroyed!”
lyrics
Oh Rome, oh Rome, my home… I bid you goodbye
It shall be a fine spring morning when Armageddon arrives
Oh death it will come and no one will be spared
Not one building standing, our fires prepared
Defile the shrines, we do what we must
Reducing the city to dust
A campaign of vilification, a stab in the back
Their memory and history burned like their charred ruins turned black
So close off the ports and starve them all out
They sacrifice children on alters of blood
Relentless we stand, now suffer our wrath
Devouring all in our path
80,000 strong, our ships have been deployed
Delenda Est Karthāgō – Carthage Must Be Destroyed
Woe, Karthāgō - Jewel of both the land and sea
Woe, Karthāgō - Fire will be your destiny
Woe, Karthāgō - Diamond of the eastern land
Woe, Karthāgō - See your blood across the desert sand
They call me a murderous shadow, a scholar of death
Malevolent tutor of triumph, I'll steal their every breath
Puritans and zealots with venomous hate
A word from the senate, we cannot debate
The rise of an empire that rules over all demands the over ones fall
A tutelage that's stained with blood
These people made of wood and mud
We'll cast them to the void
Delenda Est Karthāgō – Carthage Must Be Destroyed
Woe, Karthāgō - Jewel of both the land and sea
Woe, Karthāgō - Fire will be your destiny
Woe, Karthāgō - Diamond of the eastern land
Woe, Karthāgō - See your blood across the desert sand
Woe, Karthāgō - Jewel of both the land and sea
Woe, Karthāgō - Fire will be your destiny
Woe, Karthāgō - Diamond of the eastern land
Woe, Karthāgō - See your blood across the desert sand
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