The Winter Palace

from A Century Ago by Darth Nater

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Threshing discontentment like a farmer after harvest
Swarms of starving artists, grandmothers, and Marxists
Or a cloud of zealous locusts that leave the pastures ravaged
If the Czar will take his time, then we will take advantage

Heaping discontentment like an army gathering weapons
Hoards of hungry children act as ammunition
A young man with a vision boards a billowing locomotive
An idealistic look about him
Stacks of half-read books surround him

Bound for Petrograd
Where there’s good times to be had
Cause angry mobs of people congregate and curse the winter palace
A resolution remains to be seen
A revolution is brewing in the streets

Nicholas, are you brooding in your keep
Nicholas, are you squirming in your seat
You should be
I would be

Let the tsarina speak
Nicholas the bloody
Your people and your country know not what they need
They need the monarchy

Let your brother speak
Nicholas the second
You had more chances than most get
And you wrecked it
Here come the Bolsheviks

Grand duke Michael Alexandrovich, in a letter to his brother:
The unrest grows; even the monarchist principle is beginning to totter; and those who defend the idea that Russia cannot exist without a Tsar lose the ground under their feet, since the facts of disorganization and lawlessness are manifest. A situation like this cannot last long. I repeat once more - it is impossible to rule the country without paying attention to the voice of the people, without meeting their needs, without a willingness to admit that the people themselves understand their own needs.

You ruled over roughly 15% of the earth’s landmass
That must have been a difficult thing to do
But not as hard as it was for your daughters
Restrained and helpless as Yakov shot you

I don’t know what it feels like to have subjects, let alone ones that revolt
But I’d imagine it’s something like getting dumped by 100 and some odd million people at once

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from A Century Ago, released March 31, 2018

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Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

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