Scene 4: Song: The House of Atreus

Ephor's Note: This is the easy, singalong version of the song, meant for the reader to be able to tell where Agamemnon, the oboe, sings what. Once you're pretty sure you've got it down and can sing the melody, you can stop listening to this watered down nonsense and listen to the real thing and do some karaoke!)

The House of Atreus

Agamemnon:
I feel the furies calling
The cry of blood is galling
I fear the darkness falling
Furies, will you dog me ever?
I know that flight is useless
My night is black and moonless
There's no hope for me
Even on my deathbed
Furies, leave me be!
And when I
Leave this earth to die
For Hades, down (Chorus: Deep in Hades' kingdom, down)
I know I'll be found
By them.
These
(Chorus: Though you were a child then, hmm)
Chain me to my dark history.
It's these
(Chorus:You were still so small then, hmm)
Fiends that give my father's sins' blame to me.
It started when my uncle
(Traitor Thyestes)
Took my father's wife to bed.

Chorus: (like a round) Atreus stole his brother's children
With them their unwitting sire was fed
When Thyestes questioned
Atreus gave Thyestes back their heads.

Agamemnon:
My uncle killed my father
That bastard charmed my mother
I was powerless
I was just a child then

Chorus:
Nobody explained
Why blood rained

Agamemnon:
None told me that I was cursed.

Chorus:
Agamemnon, close both your eyes
Try to dream of distant bluer skies

Agamemnon/Chorus:
Even in my dreams
I can see where blood still gleams
Even in my sleep
I still wade in deep
None can help me now...

Chorus 1:
Did you kill your kin?

Agamemnon:
Vengeance was my sin.

Chorus 2:
How can you escape?

Agamemnon:
There's no flight from fate.

Chorus Leader:
And so the curse continues

Agamemnon/Chorus:
I know that flight is useless
My night is black and moonless
There's no hope for me
Even on my deathbed

Chorus:
Cursed when still a boy
One small boy

Agamemnon:
Held
By my father's curse.

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