"Song of Odysseus"

Circe's island, golden witch, Turned my brothers into swine, I stood before her with my blade, But laid that weapon down... 'Cause she moved like liquid fire, And her eyes held paradise, "Stay with me," she breathed so soft, And I stayed... for a year of lies. Every dawn I'd think of home, Every night I'd lose my soul... This ain't no hymn of faithful love, This is confession of a man undone, Who sailed not just across the wine-dark sea, But through the arms of other women. Home was calling, my love was waiting, And I... Lord, I kept on breaking, Every night with another goddess, While my heart cried "Find your way home!" Ogygia, that cursed paradise, Calypso fair as morning light, Should've been a single day, I stayed... seven years and nights. Every sunrise on that shore, I'd weep for what I'd left behind, Every sunset in her bed, I'd lose a piece of my own mind. Every dawn I'd think of home, Every night I'd lose my soul... This ain't no hymn of faithful love, This is confession of a man undone, Who sailed not just across the wine-dark sea, But through the arms of other women. Home was calling, my love was waiting, And I... Lord, I kept on breaking, Every night with another goddess, While my heart cried "Find your way home!" Twenty years I wandered, Twenty years of shame, When I saw her face again, Could she see I'd changed? Maybe faithfulness ain't perfect, Maybe it's just coming home, Maybe it's the part of you That never lets you go... This ain't no story of a saint, This is truth about flesh and pain, Who wandered through the depths of sin, But found his way back home again. Love was calling, she was waiting, And I... thank God, I kept on fighting, Through the guilt and through the darkness, Till I heard her voice say "Stay." Don't make me more than what I am, Just a man who lost his way, But if there's grace in this old world, It is love that brings us home...