Apollo’s Hubris

1. The light flashes catching their eye 

2. They didn’t think that they would see the goat die

3. How could they know that their lord would slaughter him

4. The mood on that mountain was rather grim

1. The price to pay for arrogance

2. To death the final currency of penance 

3. The goat man they called Marsyas 

4. Succumbing fully to Narcissus 

1. The judges astounded 

2. The spectators absconded 

3. Poor goat his flesh all red 

4. Not quite dead

1. One day his story will be told

2. But not now no one is ever that bold

3. And who were they to question their lord?

4. The singing one who controlled the record

1. A knife he took from his belt

2. And slid it easily into the satyrs pelt

3. The anguish he felt could not compare

4. To the humiliation he had suffered there 

1. His skin flapping in the breeze

2. It parted from his meat with such ease 

3. Did he still live? We’ll never know

4.  Ones things for sure, he will never grow

1. On that mountain on that day

2. Was it arrogance that demanded such pay

3. Surely not because after all

4. The goat man wasn’t the one who called

1. No, it was the crowds he amassed 

2. That where at fault for his blood dispersed 

3. After all the gods are never at fault 

4. Truly just they can’t be bought.