Turisas-End of an Empire [Lyrics]

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  • Turisas - End of an Empire from the album "Stand up and fight"
    I do not own anything
    LYRICS
    The time is here
    Time to be brave, while others fear
    Fear the stars, the moon and the Holy Ghost
    It's what lurks in the dark that scares us the most
    You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't
    What tomorrow brings is still the unknown
    But can you condone? How to atone?
    I'm so alone
    How can I know I won't bemoan?
    Every tale, needs it's star and knave
    Which part I play is yet to be unveiled
    History: just what's agreed
    Yet it will judge both you and me
    Shield and swords, will win you wars
    But in the end, the battle's for our hearts
    Fought by bards
    You look back in time
    No-one heard the bells chime
    You wonder how
    How could they this allow?
    Exactly the same
    Are the questions aimed your way
    When looking back on today
    The time is here
    Time to be brave, let others fear
    We know the walls will fall
    But out of the ashes a new day will dawn
    We've enslaved the world
    We have slaughtered, we've burned
    All, in the name of our faith
    Only a fool would except
    Others to settle for anything less
    The tide is about to turn
    The sea has pulled away
    Like small children we play
    What is this?
    Come take a look at all these fish!
    As long as you spend
    There is more for you to lend
    Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
    Someone always saves us in the end
    The time is here
    Time to be brave, let others fear
    We know the walls will fall
    But out of the ashes a new day will dawn
    We've enslaved the world
    We have slaughtered, we've burned
    All, while knowing what is best
    Might take a year or ten,
    Generations of men,
    We've passed the point of no return
    Fifty-three days in fifty-three
    Fifty-three steps for you to acknowledge your defeat
    The last in line: Ultimus Romanorum
    Evolution through revolution
    A frozen river, enough to tip an empire
    Stalingrad, Waterloo, Bastille, Poltava, Stamford Bridge,
    At Manzikert it all would end.
    Tough are times ahead
    With care you tread
    Before you know
    Out we need to bow
    Enjoy it while it lasts
    Soon forgotten in the past
    Our time here ended so fast
    Open your eyes
    Yourself apprise
    All empires find their demise
    The taller they are, the harder they fall
    The snowball
    Is on the roll
    Open your eyes
    Yourself apprise
    New powers are on the rise
    So strong is our faith, (in that) the world stays as is
    Until it hits, like shattering glass to bits
    How did this happen? How could this happen?
    How could the empire fall?
    Please comment,rate and subscribe =)

КОМЕНТАРІ • 82

  • @AnthoniusII
    @AnthoniusII 13 років тому +34

    I love this band. Their songs about the Medieval Greco/Roman Empire you most know as Byzantium is huge. They speak to Greek hearts truths that hurt.
    But that's history.
    They seam to have deep knowlege about their scandinavian ancestors and the Empire. Congratulations to this band that could easily be real honorable Varangian Guards.
    Yes all empires fall its nature's law that what is born it dies.
    I felt with this song that i was on the walls on that day of May of 1453.
    Bravo!

  • @piotrdawidziuk2782
    @piotrdawidziuk2782 8 років тому +18

    When I listen to this song, I can't stop thinking about partition of Poland. RIP Commonwealth 1795. "But out of the ashes a new day will dawn"

  • @thisusernamenowtaken
    @thisusernamenowtaken 13 років тому +10

    One of the most gloriously over-the-top epics I've ever heard - and I've heard a lot. Sometimes MORE *is* better. It suddenly looks like Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish and Warlord Nygård of Turisas will be battling over which one can compose the grandest spectacle.

  • @GenMVeers
    @GenMVeers 10 місяців тому +1

    _Never_ get tired of this song! Since 2011!

  • @Ninja-zc3ms
    @Ninja-zc3ms 5 років тому +6

    This is a masterpiece of a song

  • @iordainbreathnach5852
    @iordainbreathnach5852 8 років тому +76

    RIP The Roman Empire 1453

    • @Neueregel
      @Neueregel 8 років тому +1

      the stupid monks in 1453, chose to pray instead of *fighting* and save Byzantium

    • @Neueregel
      @Neueregel 8 років тому +9

      Iordáin Breathnach The West? Do you mean these betrayers that attacked Constantinople in 1204? Both East and West Roman empire are to blame for the disaster. Well, at least Rome was saved. But since I am a Greek, I can tell you that losing our center, Constantinople, was a tremendous disaster. Asian hordes now live very close to us in Anatolian penisula

    • @iordainbreathnach5852
      @iordainbreathnach5852 8 років тому +3

      Well it looks like historical wrongs are about to be righted with Erdogan leading the country to its doom. Maybe Putin will restore Constantinople to Hellas and the Hellenes

    • @rafaeljordao1907
      @rafaeljordao1907 8 років тому

      +Iordáin Breathnach putin won't help greece

    • @iordainbreathnach5852
      @iordainbreathnach5852 8 років тому

      Jester Lord Why not? Greece are natural allies of Russia and an ally having control of the Bosphorus straits would be alot better than Turkey with its Ottoman Sultan having it

  • @joedemanuele
    @joedemanuele 6 років тому +6

    This is giving a guy not used to metal a whole new perspective on the genre!

  • @PortalVIII
    @PortalVIII 12 років тому +9

    Listen this in the morning, feel epic for the rest of the day!

    • @rile44
      @rile44 6 років тому

      Hant & Portal VIII i've been sad because of this song..for whole day..

  • @akkalat85
    @akkalat85 9 років тому +27

    Dem fish!

  • @LannisterFromDaRock
    @LannisterFromDaRock 9 років тому +11

    I hope that on my burial they will play this song or Eluveitie's Eternity. If I ever write a last will and testament this will be the first thing I'll mention.

  • @esquilaxesquilax7750
    @esquilaxesquilax7750 2 роки тому +1

    Das Finale ist einfach grandios!

  • @n.henzler50
    @n.henzler50 4 роки тому +4

    This is the strangest cover of My Way I've ever heard.

  • @DuskWolf224
    @DuskWolf224 12 років тому +2

    One of the most Epic songs I've ever heard!

  • @FinneousPJ
    @FinneousPJ 13 років тому +2

    Totally, utterly, superbly EPIC.
    But out of the ashes a new day will dawn~

  • @luistarx
    @luistarx 8 років тому +4

    Master piece

  • @nunyabusiness6925
    @nunyabusiness6925 5 років тому +2

    SO EPIC! Thank you for your lyric video, kind stranger! Please, keep 'em coming :D

  • @Apevian
    @Apevian 11 років тому +3

    I quite enjoy how they used other examples like Stalingrad and Waterloo.

  • @alandalus6668
    @alandalus6668 5 років тому +5

    Constantine XI Palaiologos will come back...I'll just wait.

  • @stiliyan66
    @stiliyan66 12 років тому +4

    GOOOOODS!

  • @philipopruesse4259
    @philipopruesse4259 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for the lyrics. Very appreciated

  • @AnthoniusII
    @AnthoniusII 12 років тому +25

    @EdikShepherd
    My friend Byzantines NEVER existed.
    In fact they were medieval Romans.
    In 1453 the last emperor signed as Imperator Romanorum in latin
    and as Autocrator ton Romaeon (gr: Αυτοκρατωρ των Ρωμαιων) Αugoustos.
    Roman Empire died in 1453 actually. The fact that Greeks were the last Roman citizens is an other matter. :)

    • @RC-ih4li
      @RC-ih4li 6 років тому +1

      Interesting, but what is normally thought in History is that the Bizantine empire was the Oriental part of the Roman Empire that survived the barbarian invasions, i mena Constantinopla which would be in Turkey (not very close to Italy) was the capital, so i wouldnt say they were exactly Romans, but i am not really an historian....

    • @DrunkenCoward1
      @DrunkenCoward1 6 років тому +1

      Leaders will always try to paint themselves as the followers of a great empire that came before, so as to not lose legitimacy.
      If we go with that Logic Alexander wasn't a Macedonian because he understood himself to be a leader of the Greek people and he died with that belief.
      In the end, however, he is a Macedonian.

    • @GlazeBattleBorn
      @GlazeBattleBorn 4 роки тому +1

      @@DrunkenCoward1 Macedonians are Greek lmao

    • @bestcitizen9137
      @bestcitizen9137 3 роки тому

      @@DrunkenCoward1 Macedonians are greek and Byzantines were romans

  • @thisusernamenowtaken
    @thisusernamenowtaken 12 років тому +3

    @blushenka He is indeed under pressure to deliver the goods with 'Imaginaerium', seeing as how 'Stand Up and Fight' made it all the way to Terrorizer's Album of the Month when it was released...

  • @Tarmgrover
    @Tarmgrover 13 років тому

    The lyrics give me goosebumps, because i can relatate this text in two ways. The history of vikings and own experience and moments in my life

  • @jippolito8059
    @jippolito8059 8 років тому +2

    Great song

  • @georglaakso
    @georglaakso 5 років тому +1

    God Damn Awesome !!!

  • @BenDover-wv4kx
    @BenDover-wv4kx 10 років тому

    Really love this Song.

  • @sq5v8f
    @sq5v8f 8 років тому +8

    sounds like a metal version of le miserable'

  • @Genetixmyco
    @Genetixmyco 8 років тому +1

    awesome

  • @sRazor96
    @sRazor96 11 років тому +7

    wasnt there a small byzantine kingdom in Trebizond that fell around 1460

    • @rile44
      @rile44 6 років тому +4

      sRazor96 its about Constantinople..

  • @FlakonFraggs
    @FlakonFraggs 12 років тому +3

    @AnthoniusII Partly true, just making the point that the Byzantine Empire is the legacy of the Roman Empire

  • @FlakonFraggs
    @FlakonFraggs 12 років тому +5

    @AnthoniusII Look on the bright side though, the Romans, continued by the Byzantines, lasted longer as a nation than any other power in the history of man. Beating the competition by about a thousand years!

  • @Malkavianeitor
    @Malkavianeitor 10 років тому +1

    No day like 5/29 to hear this song

  • @kagancetin8769
    @kagancetin8769 5 років тому +2

    I was listening to this song when i heard about Hentai Haven.

  • @philipopruesse4259
    @philipopruesse4259 7 років тому +5

    So much better than the tralala love songs in pop radio

  • @Sp3ndTalks-is-best-channel
    @Sp3ndTalks-is-best-channel 7 років тому +20

    5:01 POLTAVA THROWN TO CERTAIN DEATH AND PAIN SWEDISH SOLDIERS MET THEIR BANE! SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES IN VAIN! POLTAVA!

  • @sRazor96
    @sRazor96 11 років тому +2

    tru dat

  • @sniperfish
    @sniperfish 11 років тому +1

    I LOVE this song, so don't get me wrong but 'What is this? Look at all these Fish' is such a hilarious lyric lol

    • @AnthoniusII
      @AnthoniusII 5 років тому +3

      If you would make a small research in Middle Ages Roman Empire's myths (you call it Byzantine but its wrong) you would find out that when Constantine The Great finished New Rome -the one you call Constantinopolis- there was a prophecy that the city would fall only when fried fish would come out to the city's shores. In there despert times people of Constantinople claimed that saw such fish in the shores of the city so the city was doomed no matter what. That droped even more the population's morale. Remember that in 1200 Constantinople had 500000 people when London and Paris had the same time 15000 people each, but in 1453 the city had less than 50000 people that became supersticius in maximum way.

    • @Goldenkitten1
      @Goldenkitten1 2 роки тому

      @@AnthoniusII Yeah but it doesn't change the fact that the line is ridiculous. Usually when you get a lyric this weird and corny it's a parody band but Turisas was taking themselves seriously which made it stand out. It seems like they could have included the historical evnt without one of the cheesiest lines in power metal history (and that's saying a lot given the level of cheese in power metal).

    • @Goldenkitten1
      @Goldenkitten1 2 роки тому

      I feel you. There are a few songs out there where they just suddenly drop an utterly hilarious line in the middle of a song and it takes you out of it for a moment. Like I mentioned to the above person I get the historical context but surely they could have included it in a less clunky line. Still a great song.

  • @metalaxi
    @metalaxi 13 років тому

    @thisusernamenowtaken Very true. I also thought about Nightwish in the beginning. And I couldn't agree more, definitely "one of the most gloriously over-the-top epics I've ever heard". And I hear a lot of Metal music :).

  • @Gyrosmeister
    @Gyrosmeister 6 років тому +1

    11th of May 330 - 29th of May 1453...

  • @blushenka
    @blushenka 12 років тому +2

    @thisusernamenowtaken : Looks like Tuomas is losing ;)

  • @vincentkonings1835
    @vincentkonings1835 Рік тому

    come on 6 likes to go people!!!!

  • @raymundozaratehernandez863
    @raymundozaratehernandez863 3 роки тому

    5:37 rise up!

  • @quintusretardicus9428
    @quintusretardicus9428 7 років тому +6

    "The taller they are , the harder they'll fall"
    Maybe but so will the republics and when that happens maybe a new Empire will rise.
    Hail Napoleon

  • @ImpassiveCanine
    @ImpassiveCanine 5 років тому

    Poltova...

  • @camilrodriguezc
    @camilrodriguezc 11 років тому

    Morea I think but wasnt very important

  • @jayfelsberg1931
    @jayfelsberg1931 5 років тому

    Manzikert (sigh)...think about it, if the Romaioi (ie the Byzantines, a 14th century name) had survived as a bulwark against Islam....

    • @Dark123hound
      @Dark123hound 5 років тому +1

      Jay Felsberg if only... Sadly Anatolia is now overrun by Muslims and constantinapolis has been defiled and renamed as Istanbul. I might be a pagan but I carry more sympathy for Christians than Muslims, I say we start a new crusade for the reclamation of constantinapolis and Anatolia for Greece and perhaps the reformation of the Byzantine empire.

    • @mr_camperator
      @mr_camperator 4 роки тому +1

      The Varangian i would actually impose the return of constantinople to greece and other historicall claims that greece may have over turkey in order to be part of the EU

  • @kerimgoktugbilgin2136
    @kerimgoktugbilgin2136 5 років тому

    Great song. But we defeat byzantium with great victory

    • @romanjancura9651
      @romanjancura9651 5 років тому +3

      Byzantium was weakened ruin crippled first by Venetians and their false-Latin Empire and then by various uprisings. Your "great victory" was like beating dead corpse.

    • @fatihkoc7075
      @fatihkoc7075 5 років тому

      @@romanjancura9651 well no. Byzantine was retaking Anatolian lands after the Manzikert. But in 1172 ör 1176 Kilijarslan ii beated 100.000 strong byzantine army with little numbers he had and then this was the real start of falling of Empire not the 4th Crusade

    • @fatihkoc7075
      @fatihkoc7075 5 років тому

      @@romanjancura9651 Battle of Myriokephalon

    • @salmahyenasashimicheetah6888
      @salmahyenasashimicheetah6888 4 роки тому

      One day the puny Nation of turkey will fall like the rest. History will laugh it's face equally like the rest.

    • @bestcitizen9137
      @bestcitizen9137 3 роки тому

      @@fatihkoc7075 ''100.000 strong byzantine army'' they havent been able to field an army this size since the last Roman-Sassanid war. Losing against numerically inferior enemies is a turkish tradition, Byzantine tradition is the one with civil wars.

  • @orang3lazaru5
    @orang3lazaru5 6 років тому +2

    Somebody play this for Trump

  • @lunatikk_synth3405
    @lunatikk_synth3405 9 років тому

    celldweller.