Constantinople Lyrics

Lyric discussion by DaFace 

Cover art for Constantinople lyrics by Residents, The

Reminds of Sailing To Byzantium by Yeats.

Except it's more like The Second Coming (http://www.online-literature.com/donne/780/) The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?