Vnv Nation Chosen Letras:
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
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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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