The Holy Roman Empire (HRE; German: Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR), Latin: Imperium Romanum Sacrum (IRS), Italian: Sacro Romano Impero (SRI)) was a German empire that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe. It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes. In its last centuries, its character became quite close to a union of territories.
The empire's territory was centered on the Kingdom of Germany, and included neighboring territories, which at its peak included the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Burgundy. For much of its history, the Empire consisted of hundreds of smaller sub-units, principalities, duchies, counties, Free Imperial Cities and other domains.
In 962 Otto I was crowned Holy Roman Emperor (German: Römisch-Deutscher Kaiser), although the Roman imperial title was first restored to Charlemagne in 800. Otto was the first emperor of the realm who was not a member of the earlier Carolingian dynasty. The last Holy Roman Emperor was Francis II, who abdicated and dissolved the Empire in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. In a decree following the 1512 Diet of Cologne, the name was officially changed to Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (German: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation, Latin: Imperium Romanum Sacrum Nationis Germanicæ).
The Roman Empire (Latin: IMPERIVM ROMANVM) was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.
The 500-year-old Roman Republic, which preceded it, had been weakened and subverted through several civil wars. Several events are commonly proposed to mark the transition from Republic to Empire, including Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator (44 BC), the Battle of Actium (2 September 31 BC), and the Roman Senate's granting to Octavian the honorific Augustus (16 January 27 BC).
Roman expansion began in the days of the Republic, but the Empire reached its greatest extent under Emperor Trajan: during his reign (98 to 117 AD) the Roman Empire controlled approximately 6.5 million km2 of land surface. Because of the Empire's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed, particularly Europe, and by means of European expansionism throughout the modern world.
The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period (starting at about 27 BC). The Romans had no single term for the office although at any given time, a given title was associated with the emperor. If a man was "proclaimed emperor" this normally meant he was proclaimed augustus, or (for generals) imperator (from which English emperor ultimately derives). Several other titles and offices were regularly accumulated by emperors, such as caesar, princeps senatus, consul and Pontifex Maximus. The power of emperors was generally based on the accumulation of powers from republican offices and the support of the army.
Roman emperors refused to be considered "kings", instead claiming to be leaders of a republic, however nominal. The first emperor, Augustus, resolutely refused recognition as a monarch. Although Augustus could claim that his power was authentically Republican, his successor, Tiberius, could not convincingly make the same claim. Nonetheless, the Republican institutional framework (senate, consuls, magistracies etc.) was preserved until the very end of the Western Empire.
Charles V (Spanish: Carlos I, Dutch: Karel V, German: Karl V., Italian: Carlo V, French: Charles Quint, Turkish: Şarlken; 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.
As the heir of three of Europe's leading dynasties—the House of Habsburg of the Habsburg Monarchy; the House of Valois-Burgundy of the Burgundian Netherlands; and the House of Trastámara of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon—he ruled over extensive domains in Central, Western, and Southern Europe; and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Charles was the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad. When Philip died in 1506, Charles became ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands, and his mother's co-ruler in Spain upon the death of his maternal grandfather, Ferdinand the Catholic, in 1516. As Charles was the first person to rule Castile-León and Aragon simultaneously in his own right, he became the first King of Spain (Charles co-reigned with his mother Joanna, which was however a technicality given her mental instability). In 1519, Charles succeeded his paternal grandfather Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria. From that point forward, Charles's realm, which has been described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", spanned nearly four million square kilometers across Europe, the Far East, and the Americas.
I want you to notice
I want you to see me for who I am
I'm breaking down
He says an absent love is
One that can never be undone
He wastes my time
Sight for eyes too blind
To errors made
Climb the walls around
The hearts you break
Walk out and I say nothing
Come home to find me forgetting you
You fade so well
Recount the past few hours
We watch a car crash from high above
We say whatever we want to
We call it anything
You owe me another life
Where have you gone?
Why have you abandoned me
Why have you abandoned me
Why have you
We'll make it alright
We'll lie and say we aren't
My promises are
What makes you sleep at night
Your name on my tongue
A spell to call you over
I wake and I run out
We've waited our whole lives
We've waited our whole lives
Just let the blood run
I heal the open wounds
Crawl out to daylight
Signs of our suffering
We'll let the blood run
I heal what she has wounded
Lights out we call this fighting and we
Run out of ways to defend ourselves
Defend our blatant lies
This time we know the reason for it
When we fall we make it all own
It's all our own design
Call the guards off
Wake the sun
Call the guards off
Wake the sun
Call the guards, wake the sun
Call the guards off
One day we'll end up paying for it
Wake up and realize we're all alone
Escape is all we've known
This time we know the reason
When we fall we make it all our
Its all our own
I want you to defend yourself
(Our own)
Its all our own design
Breathe out choke on the beauty of it
When we fall well make it all our own
I know I can't wait
I will get this wrong
We have never said a word
I have all your sins
Put away in this poor body
Hollow, empty left to die
I will burn this down anyway
Oh, I will burn this down anyway
You can have all that's left
(And I will shed this blood for you, it's put away in this poor body)
I will burn this down anyway
You can have all that's left
I know you're so tired
I will shed this blood for your sake
I will lose what you will not
I am yours this time
I will bear your devastation
I will feel what you cannot
Your heart so buried
We've waited
We'll take it outside now
We've waited
We'll take it outside now
You can keep your eyes shut
You know I'll wait up
You have everything you'll ever need
And I have all the weapons
Which ones hurt the most
I won't tell them you're the coward here
You don't get this
You don't know
You can let this out
You don't get this
You don't know
You made your bed this time
You are not so wounded
I can't hold you up
This time you're the one to save yourself
I don't have your answers
I don't know the way
I have nothing you're entitled to
And after all
Your complaints
Broken stereo plays
Your sorrow back at me
And you're not what I'm fighting
When we met I wanted to say
We're the same kind but you turned away
And I won't let you fall under
I will haunt them all so you don't have to
I will tell them what you can't say
Ghosts of the hour before
I'm hollow, I'm vanishing here
And you're still why I'm breathing
When we met I wanted to say
I'm the one who can take it away
And you won't go so unnoticed
I want what I can hold
I collide without knowing
Breathe now well I, well I'm right here
You claim it's not ours
Call out what's our fault
Blame us we will know truth
These aren't whole
Teeth and bone
Anger turned inside
Naming our disease
Starting all the same fires
And letting all
The others go
Escaping your reaction
I'm letting all
The others know
We're turning into ashes
Find your way home
Find your way back
Find your way back
I can let this go
I can mess this up
This is when you decide I'm worth it.
This is when you decide I'm good for you.
I cant take it, and I wont make it all alone.
I have waited, and I have wasted all alone.
Throw away, letters sent a lifetime ago.
Don't break this time
Not while I'm gone
I dont want to wake up and find you missing.
I dont want to wake up and find you gone.
This is when you decide that I'm worth it all the time.
This is when you decide that I'm worth it.
Throw away letters sent a lifetime ago.
Youll regret this one day.
Find out its all ancient
We try to be patient
Find out its all ancient
Wake and find you missing
You, you're such a liar
Spit out forever
And leave me here
And I, I try to reason
You lost direction
You'll drown yourself
So I, I stay silent
I won't wait for
Your return
And I, I'm so fucking angry
That I can barely
Survive the day
When summer ends
You'll taste it, you'll know that I'm right
When summer ends
You'll taste it
You can talk about me
All you want to
I just don't care
And I, I try to reason
You lost direction
You'll drown yourself
And I, I stay silent
I won't wait for
Your return
I can't wait until you feel it
Someday you'll know pain
I can breathe inside this hatred
And you're the one to blame
And they all say
Just let it go
He doesn't want you
And they all say
Just let it go
And these are
The bruises
On me
From all of the nights when
We were
Limbs and
We crawl out and
I can't
I say
I see
You aren't what you want
You aren't what you want
I have it wrong
You turned me down
I have it wrong
You say it's gone
We can't
You say
It's all wrong
You won't even listen
I can't
Break this
You make all the
I can't
I say
I see
You aren't what you want
You aren't what you want
Every time it's over and
Every time I can't let go
I can feel the marrow
We're so secret
We have it all undone
We're like spies here
We keep so quiet when your hand is over my mouth
And in sequence
We fall away from here
It's all instinct
It's just the feeling of the weight of you above me
I have something to confess
I make up for all we've lost
This is all that I can have
We're so secret
A habit I have know
We're like spies here
We keep it underground, a sign I'm waiting for you
Rearview mirror sunrise travel away
From where you're sleeping
Trace the shape of your body
I'm so familiar with the roads of this land
I've got more fight
I just want you to know
You should know
Your sorrow is mine
Horizon in your eyes
When we're driving we get lost in the landscape, in the cold unfolding
Trace the shape of your body
I'm so familiar
I'm familiar
Close your eyes and imagine that my ribcage is two open doors
Forget sins of the lovers we leave behind
We're the blameless
Your sorrow is mine
Horizon in your eyes
You say it can't be done
I'll beg to follow you
You want
You are
You say it can't be done
We step outside of the light
Dark eyes that beg of me
We step outside of the light
Dark eyes that shatter me
I cross out images of your face and fingerprints
I cross out images of
We step outside of the light
Dark chords, our symphony
We step outside of the light
You want
You want
I can't begin to tell you
This pain is real
We tell each other lies and
We cease to feel
Forward motion
In your abstract eyes
Wings fold inward
Forgetting where I've been
No more words now
Silent hearts
And after everything you're still the one I want
And this is my own way of telling you I'm wrong
Over and over again we sacrifice our own
And this is my own way of telling you I'm wrong
Over and over again we sacrifice our own
In slow motion
I watch you fade out
Symbols of faith in
Our understanding of
We make all these promises
We let them all go unnoticed here
We make all these promises
After you wake
I separate
Fact from your fiction
I can pretend if you'll be my guide
Your special liar
I call you out, you force me to drown
We attempt to solve it
After you wake
I separate
Fact from your fiction
After you wake
I let out
Smash through the windowpane
Break bones to set you free
You'll make a martyr out of me
Outside the sun goes down
Make plans to leave this town
We force a smile to please our gods
And I, tell you to stay tonight
The words are too few to fight
I tell you, no not this time
Not this time
Not this time
Our shadows slide across the wall
We think of way to save our lives
We try to adjust to the fading light of day
To lead us out
I wake to find you in my bed
We take the time to pray and then
We light our fires to leave it all
We light our fires to leave it all behind
Our shadows slide across the wall
We think of ways to save our lives
We try to adjust to the fading light of day
To lead us out
Light of day
You can
You can get out
I can't wait and I won't wonder
You can
You can get out
Of here
We say
We'll work it out
In this light
You are an angel
We say
We can get out
Of here
And I said it's overwrought
It's overwrought with fear
And I said it's overwrought
It's overwrought with
You can
You can get out
I say run
And you hold on to
You can
You can bet I will stay
I can
I can let go
Turn away and face your life now
I can let go
Of you
I can, I can let go
I can, I can let go
I can, I can let go
Of you
Never ends
Never ends
So long so long so we hide our eyes
So long so long so we hide our eyes
You tell me you never act like this and
I'm the one whose changed it all
I've made confessions a lot like this and
Know how it makes them fall
I know the ending before we start
Hollow body and gaping mouth
I hear your name and it fills my heart
Open arms and we sing it out
I'm on your side
I'm on your side
I'm on your side, if you'll just have it
I'm on your side
The situation is hopeless now you've
Figured out I'm the only one
Who'll take a hit from the other side
And won't stop until were done
I know the ending before we start
Hollow body and gaping mouth
I hear your name and it fills my heart
Open arms and we sing it loud
(Into your door)
Are these the places you hate to claim?
Are these the eyes that you used to blame?
Are these the places you hate to claim?
I've got one thing that I know you'll want
Put your hands here and pretend we're not
I've got one thing that I know you'll want