Deep in my cups and my whiskey
Sometimes the screaming will cease
Free flowing tears fall unnoticed
Numbness my only release
Some soldiers will tell you that warfare
Is just one more title for Hell
I wonder if devils get nightmares of all of their victims as well
And broken horses
Staring and still, broken horses
Like all those I killed, broken horses
Riding me down, broken horses
Broken horses
See, Ulysses the Drunk was once Ulysses the Soldier
And a high ranking one, too
And so it was they found themselves
Fighting at the siege of Ilium some twenty years ago
It was a brutal war of attrition
Against one of the best defended districts of the city
A war that Ulysses the Soldier was determined to win
After a decade of fighting
Still their defences stood firm
Heartless and cunning and scheming
Victory, I would confirm
Offering peace and departing
We honoured our valiant foes
A statue that I had designed them
Sending a message of hope
And broken horses
All that I built were broken horses
Shattered by guilt, broken horses
I can't outrun these broken horses
Broken horses
Ulysses proposed a solution
Peace and independence for Ilium, free from the City's clutches
Accords were drawn up, treaties were signed
And to commemorate this historic occasion
A vast statue was commissioned
Honouring Ilium's past as famed breeders of horses
Back when such beasts still existed
It was scanned for bioweapons
It was scanned for explosives, it was scanned for hidden soldiers
None were found
And the gift was accepted, and joy was unconfined
It was not, however, scanned for a faint, almost inaudible signal
Being broadcast of Ulysses' own design
Intended to gradually drive the listener to madness
Within a week
All in Ilium was ripping and rending and tearing and blood
When they finally opened the gates, there were none left alive
The war was over
Sometimes it's hard to remember
The City was not always here
Animals long since extinguished
Roaming with nothing to fear
Once they were known as equestrians
And Ilium honoured its past
Statues are all that remain now
Their riders have fallen at last
From broken horses
Silent and stone broken horses
Like cracked and fractured bone, broken horses
All because of me, broken horses
Broken horses
Broken