Hail Odysseus Lyrics - My Dying Bride

He surely sails on tameless seas 

With idle hours in devils 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 in 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 sirens 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 forevermore, she sings no longer on the shore