A Warning to Rome (Killy the Song)

It would be wisest to follow your instincts,
Paulinus, flee from these dark rocky coasts.
We’ll soak these cliffs in your legionnaires’ blood
In answer to all of your ignorant boasts

We follow the sun wheel throughout all our lands
Howling like dogs and screeching like birds.
Wherever we find you we’ll rally against you
And kill you like so many kine in our herds.

If you kill our fathers we’ll see it all happen
And feed on the barbary of “civilized war.”
We can’t reach your families—we can keep you trapped here
To languish away from your Gods and your shore.

We follow the sun wheel throughout all our lands
Howling like dogs and screeching like birds.
Wherever we find you we’ll rally against you
And kill you like so many kine in our herds.

If you rape our daughters they’ll bear sons to kill you
To hear their dear mothers laugh as you die.
Our women aren’t like yours, giggling and sighing.
How their swords clang and how their spears fly.

We follow the sun wheel throughout all our lands
Howling like dogs and screeching like birds.
Wherever we find you we’ll rally against you
And kill you like so many kine in our herds.

Our babes take delight in splashing around
In the mud soaked fields filled with your blood,
And the ravens and dogs that follow our camps
Rejoice at the sight of each day’s new red flood.

We follow the sun wheel throughout all our lands
Howling like dogs and screeching like birds.
Wherever we find you we’ll rally against you
And kill you like so many kine in our herds.

Lyrics © 1994 Amy Ripton
Music © 2000 Simone Parrish

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