Citadels -

It’s just contempt calling you out

When everyone else kneels down

You scream in your head, cut tongue from your mouth

When everyone else is so loud

Bellowing the only phrase they know now

«bottoms up: the city is sinking!»

Let them rot, if nobody follows;

The steel in my voice won’t hold

The sky presses down

The Rubicon is long gone;

Let them rot, regrets raise no citadels

It’s just contempt calling your bluff

This eulogy of ruin never ends, and you’ve heard enough

You rouse from an empire

Waking to whiskey, quarries for gravestones, and guillotines

Bottoms up: the city is sinking