Hail Odysseus Songtext
von My Dying Bride

He surely sails on tameless seas
With idle hours in devil′s hands
One hundred men on tameless seas
Always searching for sacred land

Rain, lashing, raw shoulders
So heave onwards and heave again
With wrists bangled, with scars again

From below, she watched only him
Secretly, she watched only him
Stowaway she crept, so grim

He surely sails enchanted seas
Hearing voices he believes


Hail Odysseus, come to us
So heave onwards and heave toward us
With wrists bangled, with gold and stars

And from below she screams out, "No, Odysseus, please don't go"
And you must fear the voice you hear
Already now, they′re so near
"And you will fall at the siren's call, into their poisoned claws"

Fearing loss, she watched them go
The sirens, she thought, take me
From below, she leapt into the sea

From the sea to the land, greeting her a golden hand
"Welcome child, to our isle, become one, take my hand"
So, it was a new voice sung aloud from the sand

So now sing, lure them in, Odysseus can be your king
The only way to love him, dear child, is to sing them in

And so it was, the crew were lost, even brave Odysseus
Into her arms forever more, she sings no longer on the shore