Ages ago, the new gods came and overthrew the Titans, the grand gods of the past, causing a small apocalypse to the planet Earth in the process. The overthrown and banished leader of the Titans, Saturn, fell into eternal sleep. But Thea (mother of the Sun, Moon and Dawn) came to him. She was able to reach out to him and awaken him from his sleep, his stupor, absolute despair, pain and shame. But life is not a film by Marvel. Saturn, Thea and their allies did not rush to take their revenge and start a new war. The second chance they got gave them the opportunity to reflect. Should they take revenge? After all, they themselves had once conquered the world, overthrowing the gods of yore. Perhaps the time had come for them to depart as well, allowing a new generation to create and evolve? Having been defeated, Thea was able to give the old gods hope to find their place in the new, transformed world. (refer to "Hyperion" by John Keats)
lyrics
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone,
Still as the silence round about his lair;
Forest on forest hung about his head
Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there,
Not so much life as on a summer's day
Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass,
But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Saturn, sleep on:—O thoughtless, why did I
Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude?
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes?
Saturn, sleep on! while at thy feet I weep.
One hand she press'd upon that aching spot
Where beats the human heart, as if just there,
Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain
O wherefore sleepest thou?
O wherefore sleepest thou?
One moon, with alteration slow, had shed
Her silver seasons four upon the night
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes?
Saturn, sleep on! while at thy feet I weep.
She felt cruel pain
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes?
Saturn, sleep on! while at thy feet I weep.
She felt cruel pain
I weep
She felt cruel pain
I weep
I weep
I weep...
credits
from Can Death Be Sleep,
released April 5, 2022
Featuring:
Stringed instruments – Elena Lyubimova
Operatic vocal – Alexandra Kabanova
Drums – Oleg Shuntsov
“Hyperion” reciter - Charles Bryant
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