Buttress - Rex - Brutus II (Official Music Video)

Director @buttress Producer @screamerclauz VFX @buttress VFX supervisor & animated figures @screamerclauz Camera Operator & Film Grain @imAlexander Costume Design @buttress and Jill Fenton Seamstress Jill Fenton Set assistants Jill Fenton & Shannon Plus Equipment Loan Monnelle Duckie Audio master by @spadeyspacely Female Army: Emily Brown, Dree Davidson, Cami Oh Male Army: Wiley Cathcart, Alexander & Tyus Southern Lyrics Ho! I see now old friends do come to greet me while outside lions roam city streets rife with the sounds of women weeping Ghost! Speak with me! No - your eyes already say the things that with your mouth you won’t Below my countrymen cry out for each other’s blood and anguish The men and women now at war, each camp speaking different language and yet both sides curse out at me as they toil and they languish Am I even Brutus still? It’s like I’ve forgotten my own name... But the people call me Rex and as long as some still need me I’ll remain whether I lead or I be lead For all that’s good and great begins and ends with them My heart never beats in me alone but always through the hearts of other men that want me dead Sick, wasted, lazy and complacent Brutus - come to take away from you the things you don’t deserve You’re not worthy, I killed Caesar He was my brother, my friend, you were neither! You just shame me, named me Nimrod, enemy of God I don’t reject it either! Brutus! Lover of humans I don’t need to prove it Everything I do I do for you - acts of cruelty, killed my teacher I’ll continue to, though they reject my love I am no Cassius I do not do what is best for myself, but for us - the Public Begone, cursed spirit! leave me Caesar Am I my brother’s keeper? I don’t mourn for you any more than you’ll mourn me either On that day soon, when I’ll face you in Hades where I’ll greet you with a kiss upon your face I’m so excited, I can’t wait! I have no empathy, Rex! When they send me their messengers I send back heads molested I want to be a fierce and fearless leader like you were But now here I supersede you - the difference between you and me - You act out of love for yourself I do so for my love of the people There, you - Have you no pride? What are you doing? Feel shame, it is I, Brutus the human come to make enemies among men make them like oil from water - I will separate them! Mothers will kill their own daughters and friend will kill friend It’s not cruel or loveless or hatred Cause even if it means I must erase you I do so for the good of the many of those who must remain so please forgive me! Rex! Brutus the rudest Lover of men, descendant of Judith It is my duty, I must separate them Must divide them - With tear in eye and iron stomach Hey, there - Brutus the rudest Lover of men, descendant of Judith It is my duty, I must separate them Like oil from water, I will separate them! Here I go now... Like Samson among the Philistines... For I am become.... Death.