Empires

I came to this empire of blood, bone, and pearls And I lived off the work of my hands But I learned there's an evil in the heart of this world And much more in the heart of a man And they showed me no mercy Taught me to weep and how not to get caught Showed me no mercy Until I became like the wolves that I fought If the winter don't kill me, then it might be the cold And the money won't keep me warm From the love that I killed and the dreams that I stole That add up inside of my bones And they show me no mercy Come to remind me of the evil I'd done No mercy It all came so easy once I went numb There's a God up in Heaven with the calendar marked And he sees in the dark And he knows when you're sleeping and when you're awake And he knows where the bodies are laid And he'll show us no mercy Though there be weeping and gnashing of teeth No mercy No mercy for you, no mercy for me No mercy For the lives that we took and the wars that we waged No mercy No mercy come judgment day