[Prologue ] Men write monsters carefully. First, they give them a woman’s face. Then they make certain she cannot testify. --- [Intro] Do not cover your eyes. If courage needs a mirror, it was never courage. ---- [Verse I] They carved my name into a warning, hung it above the temple gate; a lesson dressed in coiling hair, a woman disciplined by fate. The poets sharpened every serpent, the sculptors froze my mouth in grief; then sold my terror back as beauty and called the marble their belief. Men crossed the sea to make me legend, each carrying a polished lie; they came to kill what they had authored— then learned that statues never die. --- [Pre-Chorus] Come closer, hero. Raise your blade. Let bronze perform the gaze you fear to trade. --- [Chorus] Medusa— look at me. Let every borrowed courage petrify. Your shield may steal the light from me, but polished lies are lies that shine. Medusa— meet my eyes. No god can make your heartbeat innocent. You came to make a beast of me— now leave a monument. --- [Verse II] I heard his sandals kiss the darkness, soft as betrayal dressed in gold; Athena’s mirror led him backward, too brave to face the tale he told. He watched my shadow on the metal, a second woman, flat and pale; then swung as though a distant image could make the hand behind it clean. My serpents struck against the silence. The cavern drank what gods had planned. He raised my severed head in triumph— still terrified to understand. --- [Pre-Chorus II] Averted eyes. A hero’s pose. How strange: he conquered what he never chose to know. --- [Chorus II] Medusa— look at me. Let every borrowed courage petrify. Your shield may steal the light from me, but polished lies are lies that shine. Medusa— speak my name. Let every temple taste the blame it hid. You took the woman from the myth— the gaze survived what you did. --- [Bridge] From my blood, a winged horse rose. From my death, another wonder. Even butchered, I created. Even silent, I gave thunder. Then the goddess fixed my face upon the armor at her breast. The gods who named me an abomination still carried me into every war. [Whispered] Tell me— who became whose weapon? --- [Breakdown] NO EYES. NO MERCY. BRONZE SHIELD. FALSE GLORY. CUT THE THROAT. CLAIM THE STORY. LIFT THE HEAD— AND FEAR IT STILL. [Female Scream] LOOK AT ME! --- [Final Chorus] Medusa— look at me. Your age of heroes ends inside my eyes. The flesh will fail. The songs will change. But stone outlives the victor’s lies. Medusa— I remain. On temple walls and shields the gods still raise. You took my head to end my name— then taught the world to wear my face. --- [Final Coda] Perseus aged. His kingdom fell. The bronze went blind with rust. But every hero meets my eyes when marble learns his dust. --- [Outro] You may look away. The stone has already started. ----- [Fin] -----
