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The chariot race had become a riot, I told Justinian, stay and fight, Constantinople was on fire.

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But I built it back up, I built it back up, To Constantinople and built it back up,

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I spent hefty sums, got public works done, The Hagia Sophia, the holy wisdom,

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I built that back up, so make that make up, For all that Procopius said I'm guilty of,

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He made that stuff up.

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Constantine, thank you for moving Rome's capital out near Asia

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Where trade's just outrageous

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These walls and seas protect our rich city from invasion

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Your name's in its phrasing

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Once this was a Greek trade and colony

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Now we run Rome's empire in the east

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Rome lost ground

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And I won lots back but I just couldn't please

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The blues and greens, yeah

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The chariot race had become a riot

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I told Justinian, stay and fight

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Constantinople's on fire

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But I built it back up, I built it back up

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To Constantinople and built it back up

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Rome's laws sure needed updating

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Your legal code's such a legacy

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It's given women more rights

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Yeah, I fixed the laws up, I fixed the laws up

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I had a commission go fix the laws up

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I fixed the laws up and they get picked up

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By courts and law scholars all over Europe

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Then, look where they wound up

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The popes in Rome while I'm picking patriarchs

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We're headed for the schism

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A Christian division

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Our Eastern Orthodox Church

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State seen the West betraying our bishops

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Religious convictions

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Thou shalt stop icon idolatry

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Ban this arts, our emperor's policy

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The church tears apart

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Pope Gregory, how'd you like some pictures smashed

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By iconoclasts, yeah

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Mind your place in church hierarchy

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You pray in Latin, it's Greek to me

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Our liturgy is divine

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But your mass is misled, you use the wrong bread

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Your Crete's heresy and your priests never wed

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We're sure Empress Irene could reign

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And still Pope Leo crowned Charlemagne

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Just dump your Latin church rights

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And use our Eastern ones cause

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So Rulerius is shutting you down

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And your Cardinal's disgusted

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What's this bull?

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Of excommunication

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Saint Basil

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Help us, it's worse than saying

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Istanbul

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We'll own our hippodrome site

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Stay and fight

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The chariot race had become a riot

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I told Justinian stay and fight

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Constantinople's on fire

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But I built it back up, I built it back up

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To Constantinople and built it back up

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I built it back up so that you make up

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For all the Procopius that I'm guilty of

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Um, okay, that's enough