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What Price a Friend Lyrics
[PATROCLUS]
Agamemnon, you divide us all
With your bitching
And brooding
You feast on power and fortune
And seem to relish
Petty feuding
Menelaus, I indulge your grief
Your dignity and your pain
Yet in your grieving, bitterness
As your vengeance lost its aim
What price a friend?
What price a friend?
Oh, Achilles the blood-stained killer
With your strength comes your wounded pride
But I know your façade
For I've heard
The child that weeps inside
Am I a part of you?
Are you a part of me?
My sometimes father
My sometimеs son
Your word is my bond
To the end
What price a friеnd?
What price a friend?
What this price, my friend
Agamemnon, you divide us all
With your bitching
And brooding
You feast on power and fortune
And seem to relish
Petty feuding
Menelaus, I indulge your grief
Your dignity and your pain
Yet in your grieving, bitterness
As your vengeance lost its aim
What price a friend?
What price a friend?
Oh, Achilles the blood-stained killer
With your strength comes your wounded pride
But I know your façade
For I've heard
The child that weeps inside
Am I a part of you?
Are you a part of me?
My sometimes father
My sometimеs son
Your word is my bond
To the end
What price a friеnd?
What price a friend?
What this price, my friend
[PATROCLUS, spoken]
Ah! You're afraid of me, Hector
[HECTOR, spoken]
Never!
You’re not Achilles
[PATROCLUS, SPOKEN]
Prove your doubt
Face me!
[ACHILLES]
Now I truly know the touch of death
Though she often leaves by my hand
May all the gods reward you, Patroclus
You were a honorable man
Who suffered me
My foolish pride
My arrogance
My pain
So to all who dare to hear
I swear you that you have not died in vain
So be it
Let it end
Their price for a friend
My only friend
Ah! You're afraid of me, Hector
[HECTOR, spoken]
Never!
You’re not Achilles
[PATROCLUS, SPOKEN]
Prove your doubt
Face me!
[ACHILLES]
Now I truly know the touch of death
Though she often leaves by my hand
May all the gods reward you, Patroclus
You were a honorable man
Who suffered me
My foolish pride
My arrogance
My pain
So to all who dare to hear
I swear you that you have not died in vain
So be it
Let it end
Their price for a friend
My only friend
(spoken)
Hector! It's time
(sung)
You and I
Are both sides of a coin
We're more alike than any two men
That by the curse I suffer
From my god father's loins
(spoken)
I'll meet you alone
Let it end
Let it end
Hector! It's time
(sung)
You and I
Are both sides of a coin
We're more alike than any two men
That by the curse I suffer
From my god father's loins
(spoken)
I'll meet you alone
Let it end
Let it end
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After his friend Achilles refuses to fight to protest against Agamemnon, Patroclus laments how Agamemnon’s greed is dividing them all, while Menelaus seems to have lost focus on his vengeance. When the situation becomes dire, Patroclus decides to go to the battlefield wearing Achilles' armour and pretend to be him. This is one of the most famous episode in Homer’s Iliad. Disguised as Achilles, Patroclus engages in a duel with Trojan prince and leader, Hector, who eventually kills him. In grief for the death of his dearest and only friend, Achilles swears revenge against Hector.
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- 1.Overture
- 2.Chorale
- 8.Business
- 9.The Leader
- 10.Paris in Court
- 13.Thoughts of Love
- 15.Welcome Home
- 19.Ten Years On
- 20.The Greek Camp
- 21.What Price a Friend
- 22.Love Has Power
- 23.Two Titans
- 24.The Beggar
- 25.Ulysses Prayer
- 27.Inside Ouside
- 29.Oh Paris
- 30.Finale (Paris)
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