I turn my body from the sun To follow the fading phantom into the deep All collapsed And the great shroud of the sea Rolled on as it rolled thousands of years ago Your malice is my vengeance Pull me, into deep My body - drowned But my hate is immortal Dark and silent Deeper, darker Below the surface Below the sun Ghost of the sea I am God's assassin My lifeless eyes My tortured soul I grin at the ocean, thou grinning whale Dark and silent... deep My body - drowned But my hate is immortal Ghost of the sea I am God's assassin My lifeless eyes Deep
2. The Pacific
[Music by Droste, Lyrics by Herman Melville]
Oh, ye great mysterious - Thousand leagues of blue No one knows which mysteries are hidden Beneath your surface
Your awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath
The waves rise and fall Millions of mixed shades and shadows Lie dreaming and silent All what we call lives and souls Lie dreaming... Silent... Dreaming...
All what we call lives and souls The ever rolling waves Restless one All what we call lives and souls Lie dreaming Oh, restless one Your tide, the beating beast of earth
Oh, ye great mysterious shepherd of waves Offer me your secrets So he shall spout thick blood
3. Old Thunder
[Music by Ahab, Lyrics by Christian Hector]
[Ahab:] "Look sharp, marines!" "Dead whale or sunk boat!" "Hunt him 'til he spouts black blood" "And rolls fin up!"
Old Thunder ye once was called, Fulfill the prophecy
All but one shall be entombed In the deep gulf of doom
Beware the white demon Beware the blasphemous end
([Ahab:] "I am Ahab!" "I am the prophet and the fulfiller!" "Who's over me?" "So be it!")
4. Of The Monstrous Pictures Of Whales
[Interludium, Sounds by Ahab]
5. The Sermon
[Music by Ahab, Lyrics by Herman Melville]
The ribs and terrors in the whale Arched over me a dismal doom While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by And lift me deepening down to doom
I saw the opening maw of hell With endless pains and sorrows there Elich none but they that feel can tell Oh I was plunging to despair
In black distress I called my God When I could scarce believe him mine He bowed his ears to my complaint No more the whale did me confine
With speed he flew to my relief As on a radiant dolphin borne Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my deliverer God
My song forever shall record That terrible, that joyful hour I give the glory to my God His all the mercy and the power
[Ahab:] "Nevermore!"
6. The Hunt
[Music by Droste, Lyrics by C. Hoffarth]
Flat and silent the ocean lies Pequod's captured in a lull No gentle breeze blows in the sails Heated by a salty carpet from above The crew's emaciated, survival tough
Giant billows bear a mighty whiteness Screams from the lookout: Whale ahead! I want this whale, I want it dead!
Hysteria on upper deck Rabid flames in Ahab's eyes Hustle and bustle, drag and pull Panic affects the whaler's moves
Fire!
The harpoon slashes the water's surface Diving into darkness - the prey escapes
Swallowed by the sea Starboard lies calm Portside full of wrath Possessed by unhuman anger
The heart brawly pumps the blood Through the marionette of rage
Ahab's visage runs red I want this whale, I want it dead
A fin erupts from the abyss Proudly undulates the flesh Reaches bright horizons Inviolable, manorial An arrow loosens ... and spirit's away.
7. Ahab's Oath
[Music by Ahab, Lyrics by Herman Melville]
Now three to three ye stand Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who now are made parties to this indissoluble league Drink ye harpooners Drink and swear ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow Death to Moby Dick God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death
