The Rape Of Lucretia Lyrics - Momus

(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 

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(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 Lucretia 

Romulus 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" 

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(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 Lucretia 

Romulus 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 

Romulus 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