The Fall of Troy Lyrics

Album: Ilium

Odysseus

It’s come to a point of no return

The enemy deep within its walls

Unbreachable, they will never fall

Muses

(Walls will never fall)

Odysseus

O Goddess, have you led us all to die

At the gates of Troy

Athena

So many years have gone

Blood spilled and endless death below

What’s the result? There must be another form

To cross the walls

And shape your entrance to Troy

Odysseus/Achaeans

Lay the beams along the sand of Troy

Bring the axe and rope and tie it all

Bend the beams across and give them form

Let the Horse be born!

Lay the beams along the sand of Troy

Bring the axe and rope and tie it all

Bend the beams across and give them form

Let the Horse be born!

Odysseus

This war demands another way to fight

A gift for Pallas opens up a path

Concealed within the cover of the night

Our men shall open Troy

Neoptolemus

Deceit and trickery is the course of man

Whose courage faded and left a void unmatched

The blood of heroes has dried upon this land

The Age of Bronze is gone!

Nestor

 Now is the time, for courage and strength

 Now is the time to bring it to an end

 Now may the Gods lead in our way

 It’s time to take it all!

Sinon

Gone to reach home, they’ve left this offering

 For safe return, an image to appease

 The wrath of Pallas and the pardon of the sea

The Sign of Troy, this Horse

Odysseus/ Athena

My warriors there only is one path

If we are going to survive the night

Remain in silence in the cover of darkness

We shall open the passage to the city and the palace

The key is to use this horse

Odysseus/Achaeans

Lay the beams along the sand of Troy

Bring the axe and rope and tie it all

Bend the beams across and give them form

Let the Horse be born!

Lay the beams along the sand of Troy

Bring the axe and rope and tie it all

Bend the beams across and give them form

Let the Horse be born!

Let the Horse be born!

Let the Horse be born!

Cassandra

You fools, how can you be so blind?

Bringing calamity disguised tonight

Consenting madness

You summoned darkness, slaughter and death by the heartless

Set fire to the Argives hiding within the horse!

Cassandra / Muses

Could the end of a world be justified?

(It’s not justified)

As I gaze at the slaughter before my eyes

(The curse of sight)

As the ripples of fate flow back and forth

(As the waves flow)

Through the fabric of time, and mind and soul

(Apollo’s sight)

As I gaze at this fate, my burning home

(Without a chance to avoid)

No chance at all

Agamemnon

Cross the wall my Achaeans!

Press your shields

Never turn back!

Between our lines the Olympians lie

Slash and slice

And sing Troy's demise

At the walls of Ilium

For glory and pride

My Achaeans advance

Achaeans

In the halls of Ilium

Keep pushing men

The Trojans will die tonight

Agamemnon

Will die tonight!

Odysseus / Muses

At the end of this war I think of home

(So few return)

As the gold is prepared to pay Charon

(Is Hades home)

Just as we realise the price of Troy

(was much higher than blood)

Athena / Muses

Just like seasons renew but take a toll

(On the land and the creatures that roam the world)

So the Iron replaces the Age of Bronze

(But its heroes will live)

All Characters

Within the Song of Troy!