Julius Caesar (memento Hodie) Lyrics - The Marble Index - Nico

Amidst water lily fields white and green 

Grows a tree 

And from the tree hang apples 

Not for you to eat 

In a way it matters more 

Than it did before 

To see the East voyaging through 

True hearts of dunes 

Mirth 

Birth 

Reverie 

There in harmony 

Somersault caravans of fools 

As he passes for reply 

To sing his songs again 

He sways to kiss the horizontal ground 

And from the ground a dove rises 

And as a mark of honor 

A mask is left behind 

Mirth 

Birth 

Reverie 

There in harmony 

To gentle form and noble force 

Calm and vast his voice cascades 

From this gentle stage 

Calm and vast the city lies 

On a horizontal ground 

Kind and calm Julius lies 

For Octavian to prevail 

Mirth 

Birth 

Reverie 

In harmony 

Traverses the peninsula 

Aeolus with his whisper winds to strike 

With his gentle kisses the righteous 

And wise and doom ambitious praise 

With his will his will and order 

Mirth 

Birth 

Reverie 

Amidst water lily fields white and green 

Grows a tree 

And from the tree hang apples 

Not for you to eat 

Beneath the heaving sea 

Where statues and pillars and stone altars rest for all these 

Aching bones to guide us far from energy 

Mirth 

Birth 

Reverie