We’ll all go down like empires And burn to ash and dust, For nothing is eternal No matter how robust.

Rome thought they were forever Standing strong like olive trees, But as they’d done to Carthage They burned while they were seized.

Poempii crumbled in a day When Mount Vesuvius erupt. Ashes piled on the city and It was never recunstruct.

Persepolis though themselves mighty And a mighty city they were, So to see it burn so easily Was a shock to all the world.

Urs death was not as quick as most As the city dwindled from neglect. All the wars, famines, and drouts Left the city in a wreck.

The Akkadian empire was The first empire that we know, And it wasn’t only war that killed them But the drouts and plants that wouldn’t grow.

We’ll all go down like empires, And the greatest cities of the world, For if even they can fall There is nothing eternal.