- published: 27 Jun 2016
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The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest, most destructive conflicts in European history.
Initially a war between Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmenting Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe, becoming less about religion and more a continuation of the France–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence.
The war began when the Holy Roman Empire tried to impose religious uniformity on its domains. The northern Protestant states, angered by the violation of their rights, banded together to form the League of Evangelical Union. The Empire soon crushed this perceived rebellion, but reactions around the Protestant world condemned the Emperor's action. Sweden soon intervened in 1630 and began the full scale Great war on the continent. Spain, wishing to crush the Dutch rebels, intervened under the pretext of helping their dynastical ally, Austria. No longer able to tolerate the encirclement of two major Habsburg powers on its border, Catholic France entered the coalition on the side of the Protestants to counter the Habsburgs.
Bottom line has called me home
Hunt for truth corrupt the inside
Egoism my old friend
Time for us to break it up
Never, ever, no more letters
I've said no to everything
Fuck the truth, I don't care
Guess I need to clear the air
Backstabbers & asskissers
Take your business out of here
Shove the lies down your throat
You will swallow, you're a whore
Shove the lies down your throat
Thank you sir, thank you m'am
And I swear I feel cleansed
From the inside out
And I feel like I've scrubbed
My own filthy mouth
And I feel so much better now
And I feel so much more
When I was a young man
Thought that I could make a difference
Took me only 30 years
To understand the opposite
Never, ever, score is settled
I'll take my revenge tonight
Burn this place, to the ground
Goes around, comes around
What goes up must come down
Spread the word around the town
I have lost everything
Now I will repeat your sins
Steal from you everything