Persepolis

Flutes and pipes

Play a drunken rhyme

Entertaining

The soldiers in the palace

Naked bodies

Female slaves from Asia

Dance with promise

For a night of pleasure

Mouths smell wine

The feast is going wild

Victorious and glorious

The men exalt their king

As in a fevered dream

Thais is entering

And she provokes him

To do a special deed

"You have conquered

The capital of orient

Display your power

And make your enemies weep

Destroy their pride

The jewel of the desert

As they once destroyed

Our temples for their king"

"Burn this city to the ground

Take a torch and spread the fire"

Persepolis

Now a pile of dust

A blackened carcass

A land of ash

Persepolis

You lost your crown

Persepolis

Burned to the ground