Filk: Athenian Rhapsody
(To the tune of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen)
Music and original lyrics © 1975 by Freddie Mercury/EMI

by Jerry Hendy

Copyright 1999


At last I've ended a life
It's no longer fantasy
For so long I've tried
But now it's reality
It's opened my eyes,
I look up to Olympus and pray
I'm just a nobody
I don't want your sympathy
I was easy come, easy go
Shrugging off many a blow
Any way the wind blew me, never really mattered to me, to me...

Gabby, just killed a man
Put my sword through his neck
Now my life's a total wreck
Gabby, you're the only one
Who can help me chase my demons away
Gabby, oh, I don't know how to get by
For my heart and mind is full of sorrow
Help me carry on, carry on
Now nothing matters to me

Gabby, my first kill is done
Now I get nightmares all the time
And shivers down my spine
Farewell my friends
I've got to go and face the truth all alone

Gabby, oh
I want to know why
I wish I'd never been born at all
I'm just a shadow of a man
Joxer hush, Joxer hush
Do you fear the danger
I feel like a noose is tightening
Very, very frightening for me

Gabrielle, Gabrielle, Gabrielle, Gabrielle
Gabrielle, don't go and leave me all alone...

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a Warlord family
Spare him the strife from this act of montrosity
Easy come, Easy go, Do not let me go
By the Gods, No, We will not let you go
Do not let me go
By the Gods, No, We will not let you go
Do not let me go
By the Gods, No, We will not let you go
Do not let me go
We will not let you go-o-o-oh

Oh Gabby and Xena, oh Gabby and Xena, do not let me go
Hades has a place in Tartarus set aside for me, for me, for me...
Though this road I walk is stony, on this bed I must lie
But if you both love me, I won't need to say goodbye
Oh Gabby, help me through this, Gabby
And the fear and panic won't drive me right out of here

But nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing now matters, nothing now matters to me
Any way the wind blows....