VNV Nation Chosen Lyrics
Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone
that resounded along the walls of the houses,
which seemed dead and deserted,
while, behind the closed shutters,
eyes watched the conquerors, who, by right of war,
were now masters of the city
and of the lives and fortunes of its people.
In their darkened ruins
the inhabitants have given way
to the same feeling of panic
which is aroused by natural cataclysms
- those devastating upheavals of the Earth
against which wisdom and strength alike
are of no avail.
Though the same feeling is experienced wherever the established order of things is upset,
when security ceases to exist
when all that was previously protected by the laws of man and nature
is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal,
unreasoning force.
The earthquake,
burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their houses;
the river in spate,
sweeping away the bodies of drowned peasants,
together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from roofs;
and the victorious army
slaughtering all who resist,
making prisoners of the rest,
looting by right of the sword,
and thanking their god to the sound of cannon.
All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief
in eternal justice
and all the trust we have been taught to place
in divine protection and human reason.
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