Constantine

[Verse 1]
April, a field of banners
Great guns shake the stone
An empire once embraced the seas
Now walls must bear its name alone

Letters crossed the western waters
Few sails answered from afar
You stood in mail upon the ramparts
Behind you, windows losing light

[Chorus]
Constantine
Last crown of Rome
A thousand years within this night
Dawn draws near, yet darkness holds

Constantine
Lord, have mercy on these walls
Though gilded domes return to dust
Who shall bear our world beyond the dawn?

[Verse 2]
A chain lay across the Golden Horn
Yet ships came overland
The sultan’s guns kept watch all night
While vespers filled the vaulted air

Candles lit the Virgin’s face
Incense rose and disappeared
They took the holy bread and wine
Then bore their swords back to the walls

[Chorus]
Constantine
Last crown of Rome
A thousand years within this night
Dawn draws near, yet darkness holds

Constantine
Lord, have mercy on these walls
Though gilded domes return to dust
Who shall bear our world beyond the dawn?

[Bridge]
May, the twenty-ninth
Before the light, the horns again
The ramparts broke, the ranks gave way
An emperor vanished in the fray

[Outro]
Another banner climbed the walls
The ancient title fell to silence
Through broken stone, the sea wind passed
Into the final dawn of Rome