The Rubicon (Latin: Rubicō, Italian: Rubicone) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, about 80 kilometres long, running from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region, between the towns of Rimini and Cesena. The Latin word rubico comes from the adjective "rubeus", meaning "red". The river was so named because its waters are colored red by mud deposits. It was key to protecting Rome from Civil War.
The idiom "Crossing the Rubicon" means to pass a point of no return, and refers to Julius Caesar's army's crossing of the river in 49 BC, which was considered an act of insurrection. Because the course of the river has changed much since then, it is impossible to confirm exactly where the Rubicon flowed when Caesar and his legions crossed it.
During the Roman republic, the river Rubicon marked the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north-east and Italy proper (controlled directly by Rome and its socii (allies)) to the south. On the north-western side, the border was marked by the river Arno, a much wider and important waterway, which flows westwide from the Apennine Mountains (its source is not far from Rubicon's source) into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Governors of Roman provinces were appointed promagistrates with imperium (roughly, "right to command") in their province(s). The governor would then serve as the general of the Roman army within the territory of his province(s). Roman law specified that only the elected magistrates (consuls and praetors) could hold imperium within Italy. Any promagistrate who entered Italy at the head of his troops forfeited his imperium and was therefore no longer legally allowed to command troops.
In this promised land
fire burnin' in our hands
The choice is ours to make
realize your fantasy
You live the dream
with every step you take
Stand tall stand on the edge
use the thin end of the wedge
The will to cast your fate
don't turn around too late
Lose ground if we hesitate
burning youth won't wait
(chorus)
Make a move across the rubicon
the future's knockin' at your door
Take your time and
choose the road you want
Opportunity is yours
See it all so clear
time is right time is near
We know now what to do
All God's children learn
which way to turn
turning back we're through
We all refuse to lose
live life and light the fuse
burning youth won't wait
(chorus)
(instrumental)
I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid,
and I come in laughing play ----
but, maybe, to be saved.
Peer through the backcloth : I am a character in the play,
the words I slur are pre-ordained ----
we know them anyway.
Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend;
don't change your mind, don't pretend
to something false.
Open the toy-box : you are Pandora, I am the World.
If you cross the stream, you never can return;
If you stay, you'll surely burn.
Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes;
don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear
you feel :
it's real, and you must
guard your castle well, for I am the lone wolf,
and the boar at bay -----
grant me your Pax, you know we only live today,
and on, and on, and into :
"so Long" -- it takes so long to drown;
it takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned.
If you cross the stream you never can return;
In the world so all alone
You get to feeling that you're on your own
Troubled times seem to be a way of life
And the day it feels so gray
You wonder if you'll have to a place to stay
Somewhere to go to keep out the rain and the cold
Now don't you wonder
How you'll survive until spring
Just hear the thunder
To you it sings (oh yeah)
To you it sings (pretty mama)
Chorus:
I'm gonna take care of everything
I'm gonna take care of you
I'm gonna take care of everything
I'm gonna take care of you
So you'll know the feeling
That my thundering soul has for you
I'll be revealing
All the love in my heart that's for you
In the warmth that's in our home
Then you'll realize you're not alone
Troubled times will fade and then pass away
Sieh das Morgenrot im Osten!
Die Welt ist ein Feuer!
Sieh das Morgenrot im Osten!
Befreit ihre Seele
(Behold the red dawn in the east!
The world is a fire!
Behold the red dawn in the east!
Liberate thy soul)
If Caesar crossed the Rubicon, so can thee
Rise like a Phoenix, conquer land and see
By will, Alexander emperor before thirty three
Set thy goals, let thy fierce spirit float free
History written by wolves, not written by sheep
No glory in hiding, no splendour in sleep
Victory or Valhalla might be thy fate
It does matter not, willpower one should rate
History written by wolves, not written by sheep
No glory in hiding, no splendour in sleep
Rise and fall, but above all rise again
Abolish past pains, thrown down thy chain
Let each of thee amid the fires
Search thy own willpower and desires
Dwell this earth like a wolf with hunger
Strengthen thy inner self and wander
Follow a path that made Pilate's laurel
Learn of a wolf packs much feared howl
Might is right when legions gather here
I have ravaged millenniums of cosmic consciousness
Hyper-realities of a spectral gravitational mass
Canticles of wisdom, an arcane lore of light
Raise your sword to the pentacle of power
Accede to the seduction of this pristine talisman
Sanctify your sins in the shrine of the gravels of the timeless sands
Oracles of equanimity, the gift of alchemy
I am the wizard's exile, a pariah in eternity.
chorus:
The spirit of man writhes in veneration,
Amulets contrived with blood order sacrifice and adulation,
What is your god?
The sage of coercion?
The sedition of belief,
Compromised by treason.
By treason...
In yer face motherfucker!
Drown your fears, pledge your soul, cross the rubicon.
Where shall your condemned spirit hide? do you think it dies?
Or are these absurd lies? Obey ancient solomon's writ
See the light, of this esoteric dawn
Have you the will to be free? Can't you see? Is it you or me?
Sunrise of my universal sight
Have you seen the earth's revelation?
The eyes of tomorrow wonder in exhilaration
Are you the one to withstand corporeal essence?
Kliver in på Fonus och blir bjuden på en fika
Tårarna dom rinner när hon ber om lite hjälp
Fyll i det här, och sen det där, så ordnar allting sig
När du betalat den feta räkning som kommer hen till dig
Glöm inte bort att också du ska ha en plats i jorden
Sa den slipsprydde mannen och hällde i fem droppar till
Tuvan bredvid din livskamrat, den kanske passar dig bäst
Men tyvärr, tyvärr så är det också den som kostar mest
Gravsten, åh gravsten
Lämnad i sin ensamhet med räkningar och sorg
Inget mera kaffe, nu är det dags att betala
Skriker ut sin vrede, hur mycket vill ni ha
Ni kan ta er förbannade sten, och sedan dra!
Hon tar sitt beslut och river papperet som hon fått
Kärleken är ju ändå inte död trots alla år som gått
Gravsten, du kan ej ersätta minnen
? och saknar alla sinnen
Praying for myself
These thoughts I try to hide
I have faith in me and hope this will survive
But it's tearing me apart
I can't hear the words by which I guide
So I must ask again, who will carry me
I can not deny that nothing can defend
From the helplesness that's cutting deep inside
And I can't prevent the thought that nothing's real
Seems I've waited years for this day to end
The strength I need to feel, the pride inside of me
Are not there behind the face staring back at me
The anger and the pain of knowing where I am
I have come so far and I cannot return
Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say. No truth left that I can see
So must I let this end, and everything falls apart
Before I live my life as I have always done
Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for. Something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart. So this does not end
I cannot return. I can't start again
Nothing to deny, nothing to defend
From the helplessness, it's cutting me so deep inside
And I can't prevent the thought that's nothing's real
It seems I'm waiting years for this day to end
Praying for myself
These thoughts I try to hide
I have faith in me and hope this will survive
But it's tearing me apart
I can't hear the words by which I guide
So I must ask again, who will carry me
Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say. No truth left that I can see
So must I let this end, and everything falls apart
Before I live my life as I have always done
Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for. Something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart. So this does not end
I cannot return. I can't start again
Nothing I can do that I have not done
No words I can say. No truth left that I can see
So must I let this end, and everything falls apart
Before I live my life as I have always done
Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong
Something I can hope for. Something real that I can see
So nothing falls apart. So this does not end
The age of miracles, assent of man in strident tones
Realms of fantastic have been forged by folly speed and steel
Out of the cones stream forth, creation is not yet complete
New species come, old species fall to nature once again.
Now that I've found god on every side - and in every legion
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
The shipyards blaze, vibrant arsenals wait their turn
Idols of rational worlds to worship power, to worship strength
Great crowds excited by riot, pleasure, work
Insane crusades, destructive gesture of the freedom bringers
And all the bells shall toll, as holy banners fly
And all with talk of freedom
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
Let rage and hate of races run from Adam down
The magic of our science shines brighter than a thousand suns
Liberty in new dimensions ruthless and spectacular
Obliteration shall be poetry of 'Golden Dwans'
And as the people thrill, I stand and comprehend upon the threshold.
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
(Verse)
I don't pet, I bring on a set,
Going so hard I gained the respect.
Respect is mutual, the same I expect
When I give you high provide the chain on my neck.
Give you high, provide a fool of a pain, no,
I'm from a cancel block, I did a lot now.
I make weaves of a big ol' attention
How I do that I'm big at the temper
No king will ever go untested, it's way toss the mic I am arrested.
How we handle things that you requested
How we came as provide the questing
Everything from anybody you might offer.
Set a marathon, pac, they were off, they rock off,
I'm not a block of sins I drink till I get there and I block
You're a good acting it off till it off
And it hurts like a furnet you're after,
You can be the told of this, you're not down you say
Hold to the hood and give product to that
Who me a king, that's a product to that
Ain't no thing that could give to that
Have all my business into that, to that, to that.
I walk in like crew disagrees, I'm my POG for everybody in the scene.
Stay ol' free, cause I was poppin with the dream,
Now it's a reality popping in a weave.
You do grind but stop you when I pleave,
Go to the gym and I feel like poke you when I leave,
Mind full stop you when I leave.
Don't ever sound sloppy on a beat
I'm in free and I mean I'm for it on east
I could take one E one toss you to suffer me by east I'm more.
If I munch to intertwear the beat's unsure,
Ignore that if you wanna elevate higher
Cause for you no got love's achier,
I didn't get hero but that I won't last
Put so many years walking through fire.
You will get hype then you get far cause you still try
Who you fan type, who you fan's life.
Me I'm just an MC inside the right
I do it for real, that's why I'm still firing.
I could bring a monkey and align it,
That's who I am, I'm in my own gums and I do my own aiming
I'm just screaming boss like I ain't got a life
Got one first thing but I ain't got a wife through danger,
Blood, I could change while hype.
They flicker in eye, I set the flames more bright,
Game isn't tight, the aim isn't right.
I roll like a comet, I came on a fly,
You can have it, I'm the scene on a mic.
So I can't go fast and blame on a mic,
Don't touch, it'll burn your hand like a stove,
I'm running put roots when I say that I'm standing in groove
I can handle my role even though I know I ain't no random abroad
My hand grows cold, that's right for it, I'm right for it.
Test me, I set you a life for it,
Spray can, I'm ready to spray ann
I believe in myself, I'm ready to spray anger
Twenty at my best and I will put twenty to the test.
And I leave with twenty and I less pick twenty at arrest
Even that again, that's forty.
Just twenty at a best, I'm stepping on stones,
No bad bones in my body, but I got star stiffing on clones,
Don't forfeit nothing, repairing zones.
Caught one spit and get at your phones,
Fire spit fire, you should be alive.
Bees buzzing around me a lot, I should be a hype,
You hove around me a lot, you can see a vibe.
If I hove around you a lot I can see a style
Shit MCs, I can see a pile, but I hope that they learn to train in a while.
No time like in prison, I'm prison
And brind me feel is alive in a while
So have a laugh, stink, have a bath.
Feeling like Rose, then have a blast,
I made snowman, ice thrown on me
Frost bite burn man, I never launch
Cause I don't think my production act that much
But I don't think that count
Open the logic, then take one,
That tasting can rid amount, no another caught blunt
Get up in the place like what then,
Then it could be mic stars when I already got them,
Too many bullet in the pen, I gotta stop them.
Take pics I don't like and I crop them,
Too cure in a game, so
If I come across another artist, I can't knock them
If I see a kid who don't know that shit
Till he put down the knife and I block them, not fuck them on.
It only work for legs and arms,
I set up in a beat like electrons.
Then might cool they might have arms
Might have crums but never had a heart
Never had a finish, never had a stop,
I ain't come a long life, what the rush.
Remedy spreading in my cloth,
I was making noise even since I swing
Let me put it on now, let me see what I think,
Fight cool like the color blue,
Same color as the drink I drink,
Don't wait for the day I sink
Cause more enough than a mile I sink
From a hanging on, ain't heard new stuff.
I know you don't work, I'm out of blinks,
Pumped out chick chilling on a reck,
Just like the L and M on like this time
Nigger might be late for the slap this time
Might be hating but I catch these raps,
Yeah, I know a young belly, you will come for the belly
And take the whole body like that's six times.
See me in a carnival, that mean time
Got tess passing more and that's revise
And I might despise of any of them guys
Who wander on the nights but that seems life
Might cool down the feelings, see what's more
Shop against the flights like he fly
Realage, realage, back to life
Don't stick it up the inside or behave
I'm the cop, the man for the job,
Kind of seems wrong, but the fans still sight.
Boom set off, kill it with a headshot,
Some might have bought head line like
Escort, mind of looking for a way for a Friday night
Well, I'm free when I see you with an escort,
Don't test me, I put a hole in your vest stop.
How I ain't gonna say letting on a test shop,
Ain't the best and the best not get in my way
Cause I'm topping your sex no,
We must be shrewed or stupid
One of the two
The stakes are too important, for us to lose
but he would've broke your heart
and she would've let me down......
They would always leave
early in the morning
a final kiss or final warning
[Chorus]
just as we're friends today,
tomorrow we'll be lovers
never to be the same no more, no more
we've crossed the Rubicon and we can't turn our heels
so it's onto the bridge and we'll have to teach ourselves
my love
and i'll be tellin' tales if i claim to be sure
that this would last forever
look at the way it has gone before
but he who would've broke your heart
and she would have taken me for granted
they would always leave early in the morning
no final kiss, no final warning
[Chorus]
just as we're friends today,
tomorrow we'll be lovers
never to be the same no more, no more
weve crossed the Rubicon and we can't turn our heels
so it's onto the bridge and we'll have to teach ourselves
my love
I've been marooned in the mesh of the mind andthe flesh
Misguided by bliss and seduced by the blessed
The more I taste their chaste embrace
I'm dying to leave
I've been bruised by the Beast, kept opponentsappeased
By keeping up the flame, now my soul is released
It's all arranged, my body stays
And I'm in for a ride
When I close my eyes for the last time
Where the circle starts, when the bells chime
Please don't shed a tear for me
I'll be around
Now I'm reversing the curse, I'm disclosing the cure
Keep humming in my hearse and I know it for sure
It's time to cross the great divide
So why access denied
I've been framed by the fume of penultimate doom
In a tomb with a view beneath flowers in bloom
The less I think of how it stinks
The more I'm alive
The cure sublime
Blew many minds to pieces
First distant, moving closer, into universal recess
The war supreme tore souls to shreds
Among the living, dying, dead
With a fiery fix you'll live as before
With a magical fix you'll be begging for more
In the world so all alone
You get to feeling that you're on your own
Troubled times seem to be a way of life
And the day it feels so gray
You wonder if you'll have to a place to stay
Somewhere to go to keep out the rain and the cold
Now don't you wonder
How you'll survive until spring
Just hear the thunder
To you it sings (oh yeah)
To you it sings (pretty mama)
Chorus:
I'm gonna take care of everything
I'm gonna take care of you
I'm gonna take care of everything
I'm gonna take care of you
So you'll know the feeling
That my thundering soul has for you
I'll be revealing
All the love in my heart that's for you
In the warmth that's in our home
Then you'll realize you're not alone
Troubled times will fade and then pass away
(Chorus 3x)
Cross the rubicon
Burn the fire sign
Only victory is bliss
Bend a broken rule
Break the symmetry
Put all progress into remiss
Rinse out the ugly and purge every demon
A small step for progress a leap for the mind
The smoke never settles where everything is even
A poke in the eye the equation is nil
Violence for inner-peace
Bombing for therapy
Terror is everything you need
Cross the dotted line
Fake your destiny
Give a finger take a hand
Use the enmy
Turn the outside in
Tell the prophet it's the end
Money is power and power is corruption
There is nothing to gain from the absolute truth
Natural selection is based on deception