Medusa, Don't Look Down

[Intro] Salt on the altar, bronze in the flame A beautiful daughter with no cursed name The sea held its breath when you entered the room Before any serpent was born from the gloom [Verse 1] Three sisters raised where the black waters turn Stheno and Euryale, watching stars burn You wore your dark hair like a crown in the spray And Poseidon called you from the temple away He chose Athena’s marble, her sacred floor A place meant for prayer, not a god’s private war The tide left its mark where the pillars stood cold And vengeance woke up in the heart of the gold [Pre-Chorus] You were not the monster You were not the blame But the gods wrote their judgment Across your face and name [Chorus] Medusa, don’t look down Let the whole stone kingdom hear your sound Every serpent carries what they stole from you Every frozen heart knows the truth Medusa, rise from the deep No more vows that the heavens can keep If they made you a warning, make the warning burn Turn their marble temples when the wheels return [Verse 2] Athena came furious, bright as a blade The sea-born girl vanished beneath the parade Her soft living hair became coils in the night Each eye turned a soldier to silence and white They called you a terror, they carved out the tale While gods kept their thrones and the powerless failed But under the scales was a pulse and a scar A woman still reaching for somewhere afar [Pre-Chorus] You were not the monster You were not the blame They feared the face that remembered Who set the world aflame [Chorus] Medusa, don’t look down Let the whole stone kingdom hear your sound Every serpent carries what they stole from you Every frozen heart knows the truth Medusa, rise from the deep No more vows that the heavens can keep If they made you a warning, make the warning burn Turn their marble temples when the wheels return [Bridge] Stheno calls from the mountain Euryale cries through the foam Three daughters of a dark horizon No goddess can take back home You were beauty before the judgment You were human before the crown Now the gaze they feared in silence Brings the mighty marble down [Final Chorus] Medusa, don’t look down Let the whole stone kingdom hear your sound Every serpent carries what they stole from you Every frozen heart knows the truth Medusa, rise from the deep Wake the ancient stones from sleep If they made you a warning, make the warning burn Turn their marble temples when the wheels return [Outro] Salt on the altar, bronze in the flame A beautiful daughter reclaimed her name The sea keeps singing beneath the ruin’s roar And Medusa is not afraid anymore