CLEOPATRA

This is a song I wrote after reading about Cleopatra, the undisputed Queen of the Nile. She could seduce kings, queens, and leaders alike, especially from Rome’s top echelon. Yet she was also ruthless having her brother and sister murdered and feeding rivals to the crocodiles kept at her palace in Shatby.She walked across the backs of servants laid out like human pontoons so her feet would never touch the cold marble floors. But Cleopatra was also a genius: a polyglot who spoke ten languages, wrote books, and amassed billionaire fortune vast enough to rescue Caesar and Rome from bankruptcy.She founded an exclusive drinking club and once created a pearl cocktail that, in today’s money, would be worth over $10 million still considered the most expensive drink ever concocted.What a woman. It took 24 Roman legions and 250 warships to finally defeat her almost the full might of Rome itself