[Ensemble] ♪♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude ♪
[Hermes] ♪ His silence may seem pretty chilling ♪
♪ His violence may seem awfully crude ♪
♪ But oh you're such a foe --♪
[Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Hermes and Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Hermes] ♪ He wants to make a show of you. ♪
[Ensemble] ♪ Ooooooooooooooooooo ♪
[Hermes] ♪ When you belch your little truth --♪
[Hermes] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Hermes] ♪ When you belch your little truth --♪
[Hermes and Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude... ♪
[Hermes ] ♪ His Majesty may send his minion, His Majesty's not being rude. ♪
[Hermes] ♪ And oh what other beast Would let his eagle feast on you? ♪
[Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Hermes] ♪ His Holiness would know your secret, he feels you from his throne you fool and wants to fill his bones with you --♪
[Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Hermes] (All right)
[Hermes] (How about a hand for the band folks)
[Hermes] (That's good)
[Hermes and Ensemble] ♪ Woahhh ♪
[Singing continues]
[Hermes] ♪ Nothing like a tyrants gratitude. ♪
[Singing continues]
[Hermes] (My turn man)
[Hermes] (That's groovy)
[Hermes] ♪ When you belch your little truth --♪
[Hermes and Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Herme and Ensemble] ♪ When you belch your little truth --♪
[Hermes and Ensemble] ♪ Nothing like a tyrant's gratitude. ♪
[Audience applause]
[Prometheus] (You trouble me)
[Prometheus] (as vainly as if you lectured a wave
[Prometheus] (by no outrage or engine can Zeus compel me)
[Prometheus] (to utter these things, till he sets me free from these humiliating chains.)
[Hermes] (Consider, now, whether this resolution is in your interest.)
[Hermes] (Minion hold my hat.)
[Hermes] (It's very warm after dancing around this place.)
[Hermes] (Mark what an inescapable winter)
[Hermes] (and triple-wave of ruin will light upon you,)
[Hermes] (if you are not persuaded by my words.)
[Hermes] (Hello mortals.)
[Hermes] (First)
[Hermes] (the father will cleave this crag with thunder and black fire, and bury your body,)
[Hermes] (enfolded in arms of rock.)
[Hermes] (Second,)
[Hermes] (only at the end of a vast, distant time, will you come back to the light; and then)
[Hermes] (the winged dog of Zeus,)
[Hermes] ( a blood-red eagle,)
[Hermes] (shall greedily)
[Hermes] (cut your body into tatters,)
[Hermes] (creeping over you all day,)
[eagle noise]
[Hermes] (an unbidden dinner-guest, feasting on your liver,)
[Hermes] (making it black with blood.)
[Hermes] (Do not look for an end to such torture
[Hermes] (until some god shall willingly appear as successor to your pain)
[Hermes] (and descend to rayless Hades and the twilight depths of Tartaros.)
[Hermes] (Wherefore,)
[Hermes] (consider this well;)
[Hermes] (it is no fabricated boast)
[Hermes] (but upright truth.)
[Hermes] (Zeus' mouth)
[Hermes] (does not know how to lie;)
[Hermes] (every word it speaks)
[Hermes] (is fulfilled.)
[Silence]
[Prometheus] (You deliver your message)
[Prometheus] (to one who already knows it;)
[Silence]
[Prometheus] (but it is no shame)
[Prometheus] (to suffer)
[Prometheus] (at the hands of an enemy.)
[Exhales]
[Prometheus] (Wherefore,)
[Prometheus] (let Zeus hurl)
[Prometheus] (his double-edged wreath of fire)