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The deaths he caused were accidents |
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He committed no murder |
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Oh yes, some died of fright when they woke up in the night |
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To find a leopard in the room where they'd been lain after the feast |
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They should have known, those silly fools, the beast was tame |
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Heliogabalus wasn't to blame |
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For the deaths I'm illustrating in this quilt |
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Heliogabalus cannot share any guilt |
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Cannot share any guilt |
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Some lived to suffocate under the suffocating weight |
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Of a thousand fresh-cut blooms |
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He sent cascading from the ceiling of his room |
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Upon a crowd of his admirers |
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How was he to know some sybarites |
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Would drown beneath the flowers? |
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If a parasite can't swim should we blame him? |
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He was blond, he had blue eyes, he was completely without guilt |
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As I intend to demonstrate in my Heliogabalus quilt |
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They condemn his four year reign, his naked chariot team |
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The deadly snakes released in the forum at the climax of the games |
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His nights of gay debauchery, rushing through the slums |
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Disguised as tavern potboys, perfume sellers, barbers |
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Such exaggeration, such slanders! |
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If you'd been emperor of Rome at the age of just 15 |
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Wouldn't you have done the same? |
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So why then does his name |
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Retain the mantle of the evil always claimed by joyless vultures |
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To explain the strange allure other cultures? |
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Heliogabalus wasn't to blame |
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He was beautiful and sexy and completely without guilt |
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As I intend to demonstrate right here in this quilt |
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Condemn me freely if you wish |
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But when my quilt is finished |
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I intend to sleep as soundly and as well |
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As Heliogabalus in hell |