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"I, Claudius, will tell you how to frame your laws

Profiteering and bribery will stop

The senate will function only in the name of Roman justice

And all of you who have acquired position dishonestly

Will be replaced by men who love Rome better than their purses

I will blank everything rotten in the senate like an old dried wake

On that basis only will I become your emperor"

She's cast a spell on me

The leaves fall from the darkеned tree

Still hypnotized by her

Agrippina, my goddеss, my queen

Rise from the root of the hive

Rise from the blood of deceit and lies

The snakes are slithering

The stench of rot lies beneath your paradise

Twisted are the sins of lust

Twisted are the sins of lust

All my life I was just and fair

Different but good, different but good

All my life I was just and fair

Different but good, different but good

Why have the gods forsaken me beneath the sorrow in disguise?

They called me crippled, they laughed at me

The cries of vengeance always merciful

Still, her beauty beholds me

Fear has overtaken me

The fallen ways of diplomacy

Taken by the grip of power

Crippled dysfunction

Possesses my being, my everything

Oh how this curse

Bestows the novelty in me, ripped by the bowels of hell

Through time I have been honorable

I have served the people of Rome

And as the great emperor

(Of blood and fire, of poison and death)

(Of gods and slaves, of truth and lies, of honor and death)

I was just (the first betrayal)

I was honorable (the wrath of fire)

They laughed, they laughed at me (in her seductive eyes, Agrippina, the Mother of snakes)

Twisted are the sins of lust

Power turns to rust

I hear death calling my name

All my life I was just and fair

Different but good, different but good

All my life I was just and fair

Different but good, different but good

Why have the gods forsaken me beneath the sorrow in disguise?

They called me crippled; they laughed at me

The cries of vengeance always merciful