The Rape of Lucretia

(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust I've got a pain

Where I sit on the throne

Where an Englishman's home is his kingdom(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford

You've got blue blood on the brain

But I know a Roman sanatorium

Where they'll cure you with a story

From 2500 years ago:The Rape of Lucretia(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust

Abroad I shall not go

The past, so they say, is a foreign country

And abroad equally

(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford

Since you stubbornly insist

I'll administer the history of democracy

Beginning when a woman was done by the son of the king:The Rape of LucretiaRomulus and Remus

Orphans of the forest

Grow to their majority

Throw up their hands in horror

The democratic gesture

When Sextus puts his Sextus where no king should he

Singing "We who are about to die salute thee!"The Rape of Lucretia(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust

I should've guessed

That a doctor named after the self-confessed lover

Of Mephistopheles would say "Take two of these after meals"

And mean leeches - for all your fine speeches

Your anthem is "Where the beast sucks there suck I"

(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford

You may set your mind at rest

My soul's not with the devil but the NHS

And although I am loathe to

I've taken an oath to

Cure people like you who think SPQR stands for

"Sense Prevents the Queen's Removal"The Rape of LucretiaRomulus and Remus

Orphans of the forest

Grow to their majority

Throw up their hands in horror

The democratic gesture

When Sextus puts his Sextus where no king should he

Singing "We who are about to die salute thee!"The Rape of LucretiaRomulus and Remus

May your example lead us

Your brotherhood and merit be our guiding force

You ushered in democracy, you understood that monarchy

Stands by incest, falls by sexual intercourse

We'll be singing: "We who are about to die salute thee!"The Rape of Lucretia

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