The Balance Shifts lyrics

[CASSANDRA]
The balance still shifts
Beware all Greeks bearing gifts
For they will return
To pillage and burn
Why waste my breath?
When will they learn

[LAOCOEN]
Ah, Cassandra
I have always believed you
But what can one priest do?

[CASSANDRA]
Your role was cast
From the very beginning, my friend
You are the object of the losing and the winning
If you destroy this thing
Before night falls
Your sacrifice will save us all

[LAOCOEN]
You sound sad, little princess
Do not cry
I am ready if I must die
For if this monster is how the gods conspire
Let’s see what happens when we set it on fire
[AENEAS]
Good princess, good priest
Stop your grieving
Our prayers are answered
The Greeks are leaving
Look, see
They sail into the sun
They've given up
It's over
We've won

[Chorus]
No better feeling than peace in your homeland
No more lost hope no more tears to cry now
No more destruction or fear for your loved ones
Lay down your weapons and take up the plough

South wind, send them home
No better feeling than peace in your homeland
While we sing of victory
No more lost hope no more tears to cry now

No more destruction
No fear for your loved ones
Lay down your weapons and take up the plough!
[PRIAM]
It seems the Greek retreat was not all that swift
Hecuba, look! They took the time to leave us a gift

[HECUBA, spoken]
Are you sure it's a gift, Priam?

[HECUBA]
They must have built this thing Just before they fled
As a monument, perhaps, for their dead

[AENEAS]
The dead were the last thing on their minds
Look, see...
They've left one behind

[GUARD 1]
It’s true, Your Majesty
He looks like death

[GUARD 2]
Ugh. But you should just smell his breath

[AENEAS]
It was no Trojan weapon that made him fall
But a Greek wineskin
He's drunk, that's all
[GUARDS]
No greater drunk than a Greek with a skin full!

[GUARD 1]
This prisoner is a damn disgrace to his race

[GUARD 2]
He’d be better off dead

[GUARD 1]
Yes, let's cut off his head

[SINON, spoken]
I guess that's fair for a prisoner of war
You could cut off my head
It couldn’t hurt anymore
But do it quietly, would you

[PRIAM, spoken]
You live while you speak, you pathetic little man
Just what is this thing
What does it mean?

[SINON, spoken]
What thing

[PRIAM, spoken]
That thing

[SINON, spoken]
What thing

[PRIAM, spoken]
That thing

[SINON]
Oh, that horse
Is an offering
Of praise from the gods
I forget which one
But to move it at all
Will bring Greece undone
Serve 'em right
They leave the innocent behind
So you've beaten those bast*rds
Well, it serves them right
Still, you've got to admit
It was one hell of a fight
I'm on the fence
I'm not into violence
This is a gift for you all to enjoy
A symbol of triumph
To the people of Troy
The gods have decreed
That all Greece will fall
The minute you stable it
Inside your wall

[PRIAM]
The spirits you quote seem to grow on a vine
We have a true servant of the gods
Stop wasting my time

[SINON, spoken]
You're all the same, you kings

[PRIAM, spoken]
Priest, what do the gods make of this

[LAOCOEN]
I am no slave to the gods anymore
I renounce the struggle of passion and law
For I pray for the day
That they will fall
When men realize we don't need them at all
So no matter what they say
Or try to do
The final decision rests with you
Farewell, sweet Cassandra
My part is now played
I challenge the gods
For I am not afraid

[CASSANDRA]
No!
My friend!