Tuesday, 8 May 2012

If this world is wearing thin and you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you just wrap me up in chains but if you try to go alone don't think I'll understand stay with me stay with me

"Wife, all that you say is surely in my mind also. But I would feel terrible shame before the men of Troy and the women of Troy with their trailing dresses, if like a coward I skulk away from the fighting. Nor is that what my own heart urges, because I have learnt always to be brave and to fight in the forefront of the Trojans, winning great glory for my father and for myself. One thing I know well in my heart and in my mind: the day will come when sacred Ilios shall be destroyed, and Priam, and the people of Priam and the fine ash spear. But the pain I feel for the suffering to come is less for the people of Troy, less even for Hekabe and king Priam and my brothers, the many brave brothers who will fall in the dust at the hands of our enemies, than my pain for you, when one of the bronze-clad Achaians carries you away in tears and takes away the day of your freedom: and you will live in Argos, weaving at the loom at another woman's command, and carrying water from a foreign spring, from Messeis or Hypereia, much against your will, but compulsion will lie harsh upon you. And someone seeing you with your tears falling will say: 'This is the wife of Hektor, who was always the best warrior of the horse-taming Trojans, when they were fighting over Ilios.' That is what they will say: and for you there will be renewed misery, that you have lost such a husband to protect you from the day of slavery. But may I be dead and the heaped earth cover me, before I hear your screams and the sound of you being dragged away." - Hektor, The Iliad

Lyrics: stay / shakespears sister

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