Viva Roma

Viva Roma

I, II, III, IV, V
Roman legions at your door and you can't hide
from the new society and culture
assimilate you got like a hungry vulture.
The loved anything that's Greed.
They use concrete, they build wide and deep.
They made bridges, highways, statues so real
in every detail not like Greed ideal.

You know, when they built
they used the arche, vault and dome
to build it big 'cause big is Rome.
Roman law, code of justice.
You can trust it's the Age of Augustus.

Some poetry by Virgil, that's what he did,
his famous poem called the Aenid,
a little bit of duty was the theme
and faithfullness to Rome, that was his dream.

Anothe poet, Horace, his friende indeed
he wrote of human weaknesses and greed.
historian Livy he did debut
his History of Rome, but it's not all true.

The Roman gods
you know they give and nod to the Greeks
'cause the names were the only thing that changed.
An emperor could be divine,
have his own temple and his own schrine.
If you were a slave you had to behave
and you don't start a fuss like that pesky Spartacus.ç

The third and second centuries B. C.
they showed their engineenering expertise.
They liked to wear a toga and a cloak
apropiated from Etruscan folk.
The aqueductes with running waters gush,
the citizens to the arenas rush
to find a little respite from the stress,
only concerned with "Bread and Circuses" .

The paterfamilias he was the boss,
his children's education he paid the cost,
his daughters he guarded just like a hound
until they were 14 and husband found.
The wealthy lived in villas having fun
out in the countryside, under the sun.
The poor resided crammed under one roof
in insulae that were not fireproof.

Caput mundi , Senate run by the bourgeoisie,
governement, law and the Roman way
still impacts our lives today.