[General prompt: Female voice, Operatic heavy metal, fast hammered tempo. Staccato string intro in a gladiator style. Epic singing in a clear voice. Long instrumental break in the middle with a guitar/violin duel.] [Verse 1 - Galloping drums, bass like a whipcrack] The sand drank our sweat in Capua's ring I was a name the masters forgot to sing But the moon saw me snap the iron’s tooth And every slave became a living truth [Chorus - Full choir, brass fanfares, double bass drum] (Rise, Roman Empire, from the Via Appia’s mud!) We are not cattle, we are not blood My name is no legend – my name is a flail And the Republic trembles at the end of my trail [Guitar solo – neoclassical, fast, sweeping] [Choir: "Spar-ta-cus!"] [Bridge – tempo half-time - Organ and timpani] They will crucify us, six thousand on a cross But each cross is a tree, and each tree a loss For Rome, not for us [Outro - Fade with solo cello, then a single drumbeat] ...The chain broke. Once.
