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Poison 203 BC
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Dark, disturbing, poisoned, this song has no chorus.
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September 29th is a folk-rock/blues/electronic band formed, or rather born on September 29th 1983.
September 29th is a folk-rock/blues/electronic band formed, or rather born on September 29th 1983. It is a solo band as Olgostin does all of the composition, arrangements and production as well as singing, playing the acoustic/electric guitars, bass, keyboards and programming the drums.
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Genre
Alternative • Experimental
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Peak #224
Peak in subgenre #40
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September 29th
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September 29th
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May 02, 2008
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MP3 2.2 MB • 128 kbps • 2:27
Story behind the song
Massinissa, King of Numidia, was allied to the Romans when he fell in love with Sophonisba and married her, in 203 BC. She was a celebrated beauty and the wife of the just defeated Syphax. So, no wonder that Scipio Africanus, the Roman general in the Second Punic War, didn't agree with this arrangement. When he told Massinissa that he wanted to take the Princess to Rome, for her to appear in the trimphal parade, Massinissa had to obey. He went to his wife and offered her a cup of poison: die like a true Carthaginian princess, Sophonisba, since I cannot release you from captivity, nor I cannot shelter you from the Romans! We don't know what her thoughts were, at that moment. Though we know she drank the poison and... died.
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Rome or Freedom? This question has one answer, my Love: Poison
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