They call her Mother Rome home
She homes our Continental here
A beautiful maze of catacombs
That show what you will see
Senators whisper secrets
With tongues that will corrupt
The innocence of what was
As volcanoes erupt
Ludus turned into brothels
Of forbidden favors that
Will turn the world upside down
In the name of love and death
Even the Gods bow to us
Before they will forsake
While Ares and Aphrodite
Spread this empire of snakes

It’s Salacious
It’s our prison
It’s our Empire
Of lustful treason
It’s our bedroom
It’s our home-dome
It’s our honeymoon
Dark Side of Rome

I’m sitting in my favorite
Chinese restaurant
Enjoying and loving my drink
In this disintegrated heart
The wolves mate in the cemetery
And bite the hands that feed
Loved and pleased in the Colosseum
Feel the blood run in you and me
Inside the Vatican’s rooms
Lovable secrets of all the truths
Wait to be found, possessed and boomed
To make sure those rapists are doomed
Come with me, I’ll take you by the hand
In the heart of this Sin City
Spread our love throughout this land
I claim you, European virgin

It’s Salacious
It’s our prison
It’s our Empire
Of lustful treason
It’s our bedroom
It’s our home-dome
It’s our honeymoon
Dark Side of Rome

I don’t want
To leave her
I won’t go
Neither her
Stay with me
In the Empire
Just you and I

No virus, not this and not that
And no nazi-fascist senate
Will ever tear our love apart
Like they did with our vital art
So many cold nights passed alone
Since she decided she was done
Wish her the same lost of love
She made me feel, I will gloat
Germans, Gauls, Britains, Hispanics
Gladiators, Helen and Paris
Made love their reason to be
And their love story never finished
We may be in different but same land
The absence of touch won’t split our band
I only want your sincere love
In this mess, you just give me joy

It’s Salacious
It’s our prison
It’s our Empire
Of lustful treason
It’s our bedroom
It’s our home-dome
It’s our honeymoon
Dark Side of Rome

I don’t want
To leave you
Please don’t go
I love you
So let’s go
Through the Empire
Together

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- Continental: Hotel in the John Wick movie