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Shinin' through fire and ashes

It's the antique symbol of power

Image of supreme virtue

Useless and epic survivor

Turbid like the memory

Defeated by history

Symbol of the tyrant

In which the battle goes on

Diadem in the cold land

Drenched by blood

Deprived of all his power

By death

Diadem

In the name of duty

Is to kill

And fight for freedom

Diadem worn on his head

Symbol of hierarchic order

Witness of empires

That never were and never will be

I want to see it melt

By the heat of revolution

Of men like mice living in gutters

Protected by its light

Diadem in the cold land

Drenched by blood

Deprived of all his power

By death

Diadem

In the name of duty

Is to kill

And fight for freedom