[00:09.125]Failure follows every step
[00:16.149]And here’s the last leap that I took
[00:23.675]Again, no punishment, just like Callinicum
[01:07.812]For months we’ve withstood Gothic siege
[01:11.685]We’re hanging on by a thread
[01:14.912]All of these new recruits we’ve pressed, they are not prepared
[01:22.677]And yet I saw it fit to try to test their mettle
[01:30.277]Blessed am I, standing aright
[01:33.877]Gazing upon the fields below
[01:37.527]So many times I could have died
[01:42.352]Why am I preserved?
[01:45.102]Cursed am I, turning away
[01:48.652]Gazing upon the streets below
[01:52.352]I see her once again with him
[01:57.002]Antonina smiles
[01:59.427]I call the men to arms and shout, “O stavros nika!”
[02:06.653]We sweep into the fields beyond
[02:10.553]The battle is raging
[02:14.053]The new recruits had pushed them back, but chose not to pursue
[02:21.453]Instead they chose to loot the camps
[02:25.203]This cost us victory
[02:59.001]Amber dusk
[03:02.577]Again, it happened once again
[03:09.851]It burns, shredding my heart, oh it burns
[03:17.103]Again, I’ll have to blame the men
[03:24.653]Report they pressured me into the fight
[04:26.894]Now recalled to Syria, he took upon himself a new restraint
[04:37.144]With shepherd-like protectiveness he’d guide his men to fight the Sassanids
[05:30.430]His young step-son Photius meanwhile was stationed in the capital
[05:41.080]And there he saw his mother and Theodosius renew their love affair
[05:52.030]O spider mother, while you’re at play Belisarius fights off invaders
[06:02.403]And yet you soil your husband’s bed with another man
[06:10.230]I’m yours no more
[06:34.784]Photius rode to tell the man who took him as a son that he had been betrayed
[06:45.084]The rolling hills of Syria are black against the glorious, ember-laden sunset
[07:29.990]Step by step he strode and knelt before the man
[07:40.940]There I spoke it all, and after, silence fell
[07:51.640]After much endured, the man had finally broke
[08:21.640]As darkness falls
[08:26.964]Belisarius turns ‘round to face his step-son
[08:32.240]As darkness falls
[08:37.340]His heart is hardened – no more could he now endure
[08:42.990]As darkness falls
[08:47.514]The two embraced and swore to uproot the decay
[08:53.390]As darkness falls
[08:58.590]The two declared this mire of sin would be drained