Empire - Dar Williams

Who’s afraid of the sun?

Who’d question the goodness of the mighty?

We who banish the threat

When your little ones all go nighty-nighty

Well, there’s no time for doubt right now

And less time to explain

So get back on your horses

Kiss my ring, join our next campaign

And the Empire grows with the news that we’re winning

With more fear to conquer

And more gold thread for spinning

Bright as the sun, shining on everyone

Some would say that we forced our words

And we find that ingenuously churlish

Words are just words

Don’t be so pessimistic, weak and girlish

We like strong and happy people

Who don’t think there’s something wrong with pride

Work makes them free

And we spread that freedom far and wide

And the Empire grows, the seeds of its glory

For every five tanks, plant a sentimental story

Till they worship the sun

Even Christ loving ones

And we’ll kill the terror who rises

And a million of their races

But when our people torture you

That’s a few random cases

Don’t question the sun, it doesn’t help anyone

But the journalist cried out

«When it was too late to stop us

Everyone had awakened to the dream

They could enter our Colossus»

And now I’m right, here you said I’m right

There’s nothing that can harm me

Cause the sun never sets

On my dungeons or my army

And the Empire fell

On its own splintered axis

And the Emperor wanes

As the silver moon waxes

And the farmers will find our coins

In their strawberry fields

While somebody somewhere

Twists his ring as someone kneels

Oh where is the sun shining for everyone?

Oh where is the sun shining for everyone?