I, claudius, will tell you how to frame you laws Profiteering and bribery will stop The senate will function only in the name of roman justice And all of you who have acquired position dishonestly Will be replaced by men who love rome better than their purses I will blank everything rotten in the senate like an old dried wake On that basis only will I become your emperor She's cast a spell on me The leaves fall from the darkеned tree Still hypnotized by her Agrippina, my goddеss, my queen Rise from the root of the hive Rise from the blood of deceit and lies The snakes are slithering The stench of rot, lies beneath your paradise Twisted are the sins of lust Twisted are the sins of lust All my life I was just and fair Different but good, different but good All my life I was just and fair Different but good, different but good Why have the gods forsaken me Beneath the sorrow in disguise? They called me crippled, they laughed at me The cries of vengeance always merciful Still her beauty beholds me Fear has overtaken me The fallen ways of diplomacy Taken by the grip of power Crippled dysfunction Possesses my being, my everything Oh how this curse Bestows the novelty in me, ripped by the bowels of hell Through time I have been honourable I have served the people of rome And as the great emperor (Of blood and fire, of poison and death) (Of gods and slaves, of truth and lies, of honor and death) I was just (the first betrayal) I was honourable (the wrath of fire) They laughed, they laughed at me (in her seductive eyes, agrippina) Mother of snakes Twisted are the sins of lust Power turns to rust I hear death calling my name All my life I was just and fair Different but good, different but good All my life I was just and fair Different but good, different but good Why have the gods forsaken me Beneath the sorrow in disguise? They called me crippled they laughed at me The cries of vengeance always merciful