ECHOES OF BRONZE LYRICS

1. Overture (Cassandra's Dream)

[Instrumental]

2. At the Shores of Ilium

Sing, O' Goddess! The song of the Achaeans,
Of the time when they sailed in a thousand black ships
For an oath, and control of the Aegean

Sing the song of clashing swords
And of the heroes of bronze
That shook the core of Olympus

And may the song of Troy resound throughout the ages
As written, in blood and metal

[Muses:]
In Black ships they cross the Aegean Sea
A thousand sails blow, hasting with might
For Jove above the Olympians shouts
he brings the wind and enlightens the path

[Achaeans:]
To the shores of Ilium
For glory and pride
The Achaeans unite
To the halls of Ilium
The sons of Troy
Get ready to host the fight

[Agamemnon / Diomedes:]
Stand up and fight!
(Stand up and fight!)

[Achilles:]
Show them our might!

Oh! Mother watch us from the depths of Oceanus
As Myrmidon swords send the Trojans to Charon
And if my glory is truly bounded to my doom
Let it sound eternally!

[Odysseus:]
Alas!
All Mighty Gods in Olympus
Will this city really ever fall?
The highest walls rise over the shore
The price of Helen shall be paid in our blood

[Diomedes:]
(Our blood)

[Odysseus:]
For if thy sons are truly worth that woman's cause
Then Athena guide our swords!

[Agamemnon:]
Prepare to land my Achaeans!
The time to fight has come at last
My own blood I've sacrificed
For Gold and glory and Trojan demise

[Muses:]
In Black sails they crossed the Aegean sea
A thousand ships are landing with might
For Jove above the Achaeans sees

[Achaeans:]
The blades, the shields and enlightens the hearts

At the shores of Ilium
Heroes of old
Shall offer their blood
At the sands of Ilium
Below the Ida so many fight and die

[Achilles:]
Mirmidons it's time
Push forward now!
Leave the ships behind
And claim the glory
That is your birthright
Draw thy spears up high
Hold the line!
Fight my men to the death, now!

[Achaeans:]
At the walls of Ilium
Heroes of old
Shall offer their blood
As the sands of Ilium
Are colored crimson with men and gods.

3. 3000 Days of Siege

[Muses:]
Sing, O Goddess about this day
As Apollo's rage descends
Below the sun among the Achaeans
Grow disease and despair

[Achilles:]
Oh! Agamemnon you greedy fool
That priest shall be your doom
You claim all treasures of flesh and gold
But I never see you in the front

[Agamemnon:]
I have no fear. Oh, mighty Achilles
For I am the king of all the Greeks
Your empty threats may prove too great to pay

[Muses:]
Three thousand days of siege
And countless lives
Three thousand nights of fear
Upon this land

[Athena:]
Achilles hold thy blade tonight
Three times this king will pay in time

[Muses:]
Three thousand days of siege
And countless lives
Three thousand nights of fear
Upon this land

[Athena:]
Achilles hold thy blade tonight
Three times this king will pay in time

[Muses:]
Sing, O Goddess about this day
As Apollo's rage descends
Below the sun among the Achaeans
Grow disease and despair

[Achilles:]
Oh! Agamemnon you greedy fool
That priest shall be your doom
You claim all treasures of flesh and gold
But I never see you in the front

[Agamemnon:]
I have no fear. Oh, mighty Achilles
For I am the king of all the Greeks
Your empty threats may prove too great to pay

[Muses:]
Three thousand days of siege
And countless lives
Three thousand nights of fear
Upon this land

[Athena:]
Achilles hold thy blade tonight
Three times this king will pay in time

[Muses:]
Three thousand days of siege
And countless lives
Three thousand nights of fear
Upon this land

[Athena:]
Achilles hold thy blade tonight
Three times this king will pay in time

4. The Trials Of Paris

[Instrumental]

5. Rage of Diomedes

[Diomedes:]
O Pallas!
Why have you forsaken
Your loyal kin this night
We lose our men to Ares
They can't put up a fight

Ten years of prayers are wasted
At the beaches of this land
With the tide of war against us
And still we'll make our stand

[Diomedes:]
Do you see our mortal lives
Fade to dark in vain tonight
Pallas hear my rage tonight
Guide my blade to win this fight!

[Diomedes:]
The golden ichor flows
From thy hand tonight
Our spears and shields are shining
Now pushing the frontline

Ten years of war we've waged
At the beaches of this land
Yet victory is alien
But still we make our stand

As Pallas' rage flows in my veins
Among the men I see Ares
Thrash and kill and make him pay
No Trojan shall be left on this day
(Standing on this day)

[Athena:]
Rise to fight both God and Man
Crimson rage within thy veins
Stand and fight and turn the tide
Be the storm of bronze that never fades!

6. Of Lions and Men I

[Odysseus:]
Waves and waves of Trojan spears
Drive the Achaeans back to the ships
One by one we are forced to turn
it's the end if we lose this ground

[Muses:]
Consumed by bitterness and pain Achilles in his tent
Deaf to battle cries as ships are set ablaze
The mighty Myrmidons could go and turn the tide
If someone else would lead them to the fight

[Muses:]
In Achilles' bronze Patroclus leads the men

[Patroclus:]
Push the Trojans back from whence they came!

[Muses:]
The mighty Myrmidons, fight turning the tide,
Until Apollo's strike makes them pay a price

[Odysseus / Athena:]
Time stops with Hector's spear
withdrawing and staining the field,
Patroclus' fall might just become
our chance, our time to crush them all

[Achilles:]
Hector! Hector! Hector! Hector!

7. Of Lions and Men II

[Achilles:]
Oh! Prince of Troy
You were a fool to believe
That at the end you would prove better than me
You spilled Patroclus' blood on this field
I'll rip your body apart and send you to the abyss

As between men and lions
There is no peace or pact
The edge of my sword
You will find!

I curse you to damnation
In Hades you shall lie
Deaf, still and blind

[Hector:]
Oh! Myrmidon you think your rage lets you be
A wretched man, a reckless blasphemer
You crush the lives of men as if leafs
Yet will not live to see the fall of kings

As this abomination
Has brought us this impasse
The edge of my sword
You will find!

I curse you to damnation
Apollo's bow and shaft
Will bring an end to your life

[Muses:]
Hector launches his spear
But is blocked by Achilles' shield
The heroes come closer
The bronze clash gets stronger
Olympus is shaking within!

[Achilles:]
Oh! Prince of Troy,
I claim your life on this day
Drag you around the Scaean gates
The Gods bear witness of your defeat!
The price of glory is so hard to give

[Muses:]
As this abomination
Is brought upon this land
With notes of death, rage and wrath
As glory and damnation
Light the fires in our hearts
And bring the heroes back
One more time

[Odysseus:]
After days of constant pain
Achilles' wrath ends with Priam's pledge
Twelve days of grace have been arranged
As sorrow is transformed to grace

8. When Heroes Fall

[Andromache:]
As the sun falls today
As the moonlight veils the sky
I gaze upon the plain
I see Ilium cry in vain
O Gods above!
You take it all
The Earth now is silent and void

It happened yesterday
The clash of shield and blade
A sound of thunder came
And took my life away
The night sky
It seems so dark
Though heroes have fallen
And rise to the stars

Beyond the pyre's bright light
The wind lifts your ashes from the earth
Euterpe echoes your legend
And takes it forever in the wind

[Achilles:]
As the sun falls today
And the sea reflects the light
The plains are empty now
As the pyres reach the sky
O Gods above
Why should we fall?
Is Olympus also in mourn?

Beyond the pyre's bright light
The wind lifts your ashes from the earth

[Andromache:]
(From the earth)

[Achilles:]
Euterpe echoes your legend
And takes it forever in the wind

[Andromache:]
(In the wind)

[Andromache / Muses:]
Beyond the pyre's bright light
The wind lifts your ashes
From the earth

[Achilles:]
(From the earth)

[Andromache:]
Euterpe echoes your legend
And takes it forever in the wind

[Achilles:]
Forever by the wind

[Achilles / Andromache:]
Beyond the pyre's bright light
The wind lifts your ashes from the earth
Euterpe echoes your legend
And takes it forever in the wind

9. The Fall of Troy

[Part I. Revelation]

[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

[Part II. The 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!

[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!

[Part III. Of Fire and Tragedy]

[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!







ECHOES OF BRONZE LYRICS