[Verse 1]
Name’s Odysseus
I left my island throne
A borrowed horse
Brought Troy tumbling down
But every victory
Writes its own new debt
Now the gods are rolling dice
On every step I get
[Chorus]
On this wine-dark road home
Where the sea keeps calling my name
Every wave like a question
Every island a flame
From Athena’s quiet counsel
To Poseidon’s pounding foam
I’m a stubborn
Clever stranger
On a wine-dark road home
[Verse 2]
Sirens on the shoreline
Sweet teeth in their song (oh-oh)
Wax in my sailors’ ears
I’m tied to the wrong
Cyclops in his cavern
Counting stolen sheep
One sharp thought
And he’s stumbling in his sleep
[Chorus]
On this wine-dark road home
Where the sea keeps calling my name
Every wave like a question
Every island a flame
From Athena’s quiet counsel
To Poseidon’s pounding foam
I’m a stubborn
Clever stranger
On a wine-dark road home
[Bridge]
Circe’s golden garden
Turns my friends to swine
Calypso’s endless summer
Tries to bend my spine
But there’s olive smoke in Ithaca
In a woman’s waiting hands
And a boy who holds a bow
Who does not yet understand
[Chorus]
On this wine-dark road home
Where the sea keeps calling my name
Every wave like a question
Every promise a chain
But through monsters
Kings
And godheads
Through the storm’s white broken dome
I’ll outthink the wrath of heaven
For one doorway
One old stone
I’m Odysseus returning
On a wine-dark road home