Rex - Brutus II The Buttress

Ho!
I see now old friends do come to greet me
While outside lions roam city streets
Rife with the sounds of women weeping
Ghost!
Speak with me!
No -
Your eyes already say the things that with your mouth you won't
Below my countrymen cry out for eachother's blood and anguish
The men and women now at war, each camp speaking different language
And yet both sides curse out at me as they toil and they languish
Am I even Brutus still? It's like I've forgotten my own name...
But the people call me Rеx
And as long as some still need me I'll remain
Whеther I lead or I be lead
For all that's good and great begins and ends with them
My heart never beats in me alone
But always through the hearts of other men
That want me dead!

Sick, wasted, lazy and complacent
Brutus! come to take away from you the things you don't deserve
You're not worthy, I killed Caesar
He was my brother, my friend, you were neither!
You just shame me, named me Nimrod, enemy of God
I don't reject it either!
Brutus! Lover of humans
I don't need to prove it
Everything I do I do for you -
Acts of cruelty, killed my teacher
I'll continue to, though they reject my love
I am no Cassius
I do not do what is best for myself, but for us -
The public