BEYOND THE RHINE
That’s great, it starts in a little cave,
bird and wolf, a shepherd’s stave, and Romulus is not afraid.

Palatine, Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline,
Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, the 7 Hills!
Forum, Rostra, Column, Curia,
Circus Maximus, Wall of Servius,
Temple of Jupiter, Campus Martius,
A government for hire and a combat site!
Walk the via Appia, Aurelia, Flaminia,
and the Sacred Road.

Latium, Ētrūria, Campānia, Āpūlia,
Rōma, Brundisium, Tūsculum, Ostia,
Uh-oh, can’t stop, Etna’s going to blow its top!
Corsica, Sardinia, Melita, Sicilia,
Mare Ādriāticum, Mare Tyrrhēnum!
The Middle Sea is our sea right? Right!
Cross the Danūvius, Rhēnus, Nīlus,
and the Rubico!

It’s the end of the world as we know it…
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
beyond the Rhine!

Germania, Britannia, Gallia, Hispania,
Graecia, Arabia, Syria, Numidia,
Cleopatra, Egypt’s hour, light the fire in Pharos Tower!
Crēta, Chios, Lemnos, Lesbos, 
Cyprus, Rhodus, Naxus, Delos,
Sparta, Delphī, Olympia, Corinthus,
Mare Aegaeum, Mare Īonium,
An empire, an empire, an empire to rule!
Constantine’s city, Constantine’s city, now it’s Istanbul!

It’s the end of the world as we know it… (Which road leads us back to Rome?)
It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (Which road leads us back to Rome?)
It’s the end of the world as we know it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we got back to Rome)
Beyond the Rhine! (beyond the Rhine)

It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we got back to Rome)

The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Caesarea Maritime,
Judea, Parthia, Africa, Asia,
Tigris, Euphrates, Babylon, and Petra,
Bithynia, the Black Sea, land of exiles, Right? Right.

It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we got back to Rome)

It’s the end of the world as we know it…
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
It’s the end of the world as we know it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we all got back to Rome)

It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the world as we know it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we got back to Rome)

It’s the end of the empire; can’t grow it…
It’s the end of the empire; can’t grow it…
It’s the end of the empire; can’t grow it…
beyond the Rhine!

It’s the end of the empire, can’t grow it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the empire, can’t grow it…  (It’s time we got back to Rome)
It’s the end of the empire, can’t grow it beyond the Rhine (It’s time we got back to Rome)

(It’s time we got back to Rome)