Lyrics Rex - Brutus II - The Buttress

Ho!
I see now old friends do come to greet me
While outside lions roam city streets
Rife with the sounds of women weeping
Ghost!
Speak with me!
No -
Your eyes already say the things that with your mouth you won't
Below my countrymen cry out
For each other's blood and anguish
The men and women now at war
Each camp speaking different language
And yet both sides curse out at me
As they toil and they languish
Am I even Brutus still?
It's like I've forgotten my own name
But the people call me Rex
And as long as some still need me I'll remain
Whether I lead or I be lead
For all that's good and great
Begins and ends with them
My heart never beats in me alone
But always through the hearts of other men
That want me dead!
Sick, wasted, lazy and complacent
Brutus! come to take away from you
The things you don't deserve
You're not worthy, I killed Caesar
He was my brother, my friend, you were neither!
You just shame me, named me Nimrod
Enemy of God
I don't reject it either!
Brutus! Lover of humans
I don't need to prove it
Everything I do I do for you -
Acts of cruelty, killed my teacher
I'll continue to, though they reject my love
I am no Cassius
I do not do what is best for myself, but for us -
The public
Begone, cursed spirit!
Leave me Caesar
Am I my brother's keeper?
I don't mourn for you any more
Than you'll mourn me either
On that day soon, when I'll face you in Hades
Where I'll greet you with a kiss upon your face
I'm so excited, I can't wait!
I have no empathy, Rex!
When they send me their messengers I send back heads molested
I wanted to be a fierce and fearless leader like you were
But now here I supersede you -
The difference between you and me -
You act out of love for yourself
I do so for my love of the people
There, you -
Have you no pride?
What are you doing?
Feel shame, it is I, Brutus the human
Come to make enemies among men
Make them like oil from water -
I will separate them!
Mothers will kill their own daughters
And friend will kill friend
It's not cruel or loveless or hatred
Cause even if it means I must erase you
I do so for the good of the many
Of those who must remain so please forgive me!
Rex! Brutus the rudest
Lover of men, descendant of Judith
It is my duty, I must separate them
Must divide them -
With tear in eye and iron stomach
Hey, there -
Brutus the rudest
Lover of men, descendant of Judith
It is my duty, I must separate them
Like oil from water, I will separate them!
Here I go now
Like Samson among the Philistines
For I am become
Death