Strange to the World

Tomorrow's sun has come and sets behind the western sands

 A messenger approaches and says that John is gone

 A stray arrow brought him down

 Belisarius, he chokes on his own tears

 

 Who is responsible?

 Who let this happen?

 The messenger reports it was one of his own

 Killed by friendly fire, his dying words were

 Punish not the man who killed me by mistake

 

 Is this injustice? I feel powerless

 There's no one for me to jail or execute

 (I'll) erect a shrine for him, I'll pay the price

 For years hereafter I will take good care of him

 

 My only solace my loving wife

 Dear Antonina, please comfort me

 

 A disgruntled slave brought chambermaids to kneel before me and tell me what?

 

 It never rains it pours on me

 The blood within me boils

  Sing hallelujah!

 They say they saw my wife lay with my own godson

 How could they sin against me?

  Sing hallelujah!

 

 Am I not just? I have the right, the right to have her killed

  Sing hallelujah!

 Am I like Christ, who so forgave the adulteress from stoning?

  Sing hallelujah!

 

 If I forgive her, Antonina, what can be said then for Theodosius?

She came from the streets and worked as an actress, but my dear godson should have known better

 I gave him a life, and now he betrays me

 Nothing could stop me think of the ways I could inflict pain

 It's coming down, down to the wire

 Time to decide how I should I should proceed from here

 

 How I can feel that she is hurting

 How I can see that she's not proud of herself

 And life is lonely, always apart

 And yet I have managed to be loyal to her

 Rumors begin to gather traction, and I am regarded as a pawn of my wife

 A great commander, but a puppet to her

 It's not surprising virtue seems strange to the world

 

 The might of Africa will fade, and all our monuments dissolve

 There's nothing here that will remain, and yet our lives somehow resound

 

 Our fleeting lives are meaningful

 Nothing you do doesn't matter

  Every choice you make moves this world toward hell or paradise