a: The Captivity
(There was)
No hope for the traveller in that dark prison of stone.
To flee from starvation, he led his men there.
(There, where a giant one-eyed creature greedily gorged his fearful
friends alive. So what is to do when freedom is barred?
When everything seems hopeless and futile? When darkness
shackles the mind and the will to survive has almost dried out?)
Trapped in
No way out
Got trapped inside of Polyphemus’ cave
With greed the one-eyed gorged fearful friends alive
So what is to do when freedom is barred?
Trapped in
No way out
Got trapped and Polyphemus is feasting on them
Friends:
“Desperate eyes stare into darkness,
Pray to Athena for help.
How to leave this cell of gray stone?
How to see the sunlight again?
Anxious eyes stare into weak flames.
We all pray to Zeus for aid.
How to leave this cell of cold stone?
How to see the rising sun again?”
Odysseus:
“Wine! Give it to him.
A tired mind can't see clear.
Cyclops, here I am!
Nobody is my name!
Wine! Give it to him.
A tired mind can't see clear.
Cyclops, here I am!
Nobody is my name!”
The sharpened pale in slyly hands
Crafted key in useful flames
Took Polyphemus' single sight
And all the gods, they shall hear his cries
Polyphemus:
“Help me friends! Why don't you come?
Nobody did me harm!
Nobody stabbed my eye!
Poseidon, father, hear my cries!”
b: The Escape
The forlorn traveller, he must return
To his family and his throne
On Polyphemus’ nurtured sheep
They left behind their misery
As cyclop hands rolled stones away
And let those poor ones free
The forlorn traveller must return
To family and throne
With fraud and courage he has won
The freedom for his men
In rage about his tortured soul
The giant throws the rocks with force
But Laertes' son is laughing now
About Poseidons one-eyed descendent
And in supposed splendor he leaves this coast of doom
Come forlorn traveller, now return
To family and throne
With fraud and courage you have won
The freedom for your men
The freedom for your men
The freedom for your men
