This episode brings the conflict between the two heroines to an exploding
climax. This musical brought depth and feeling into the conflict and also
to the resolution.
Xena and Gabrielle dive into the waterfall
Absorb thyself in this great sea of the waters of life.
Dive deep in it until thou has lost thyself.
And having lost thyself then thou shalt find thyself again.
Even as it is written she had her dwelling in the great sea as in a fish
therein.
Alleth am I, from my unfathomable will the universe hath its beginnings.
In my boundless wisdom are the types and patterns of all things. Callisto as The
Fool:
"Glad that your feelin' strong
Thought I might lose ya
Don't use words sing a song
This is Illusia!"
Xena sits on a throne The
Priestess Callisto (singing):
"Xena be warned Xena beware
By closing your eyes you'll see what isn't there
Xena be calm open your eyes
Lies may be truth and truth may be lies."
Xena (spoken)
"All right, Callisto, cut the song and dance. What's going
on? Where are we?"
Callisto (singing):
"Fate is a wheel it will reveal
All you've become, all that you feel
Destiny knows what has to be
And you'll pay the price, nothing is free
I'll be your guide, take the hand of your muse
You just might lose your way in the land of Illusia.
Illusia is music a world built on rhyme
It's carved out of space in the absence of time
You've tasted how evil and good coexist
The bitter and sweet of it."
Dog (singing):
"All in the lips that you've kissed."
Callisto (singing):
"Lion and bull.
Eagle and snake
To live or die
It's the choice you've gotta make
Can you undo what you create?
Step through the wheel
Follow your fate."
Animals (singing):
"The fates have a fix on you
We can play tricks on you
We deal in truths you're too troubled to face
Gamble the worth of you
On the rebirth of you
Don't turn away
Don't start to fade
What's still unwritten you can erase."
Callisto (singing):
"Your villainous infamy tortures your soul
Decent into evil must levy it's toll
The darkness that rots you has brought you to this."
Anubis (singing):
"Oh Xena with death there is always rebirth."
Sphinx (singing):
"Come see with a vision denied you on earth."
Callisto (singing):
"Illusia is waiting we'll show you the way
But all consequences are your own creation
And there is a price you must pay."
Animals (singing):
"The fates have a fix on you
We can play tricks on you
We deal in truths you're too troubled to face
Gamble the worth of you
On the rebirth of you
Now is the time this is the place."
Callisto and Animals (singing together):
"What's still unwritten you can erase
Illusia is music a world full of rhyme
It's carved out of space in the absence of.."
Xena (spoken):
"All right Callisto. You like little ditties, fine. I got one for ya.
You're acting so strangely
That I hardly know ya
But still I wouldn't trust ya
As far as I can throw ya."
Callisto (spoken):
"You're wrong not trust
One who knows you so well
I never betrayed you
That wasGabrielle." Joxer pulls Gabrielle from the water as the Hanged
Man
Joxer (singing):
Joxer the Mighty,
Master of geography
Here to guide you on your way,
Stick with me you'll never stray
If you're in a land that's new,
I'm the man who'll get you through
Even when you're slightly nude
I'm Joxer, I'm Joxer the Mighty." Warriors (singing):
"Xena! Xena! Xena!
Praise the winds of chance that blew
Xena's back her friend's are true
We will fight till death for you,
Brave Xena
When your mighty chakram arcs
Throwing fierce magnetic sparks
no one ever hits their marks like Xena
Praised for prowess with a sword
Who's as feared as is adored
You've not lived till you've been gored
By Xena
You're the Warrior Princess
Who's as strong as an oak
You've got eyes that could tear out the heart of a bloke
With one look you can wilt a flower
Curdle milk or make men cower
Welcome home! Xena, welcome home!"
Xena (spoken)
"Ares. I thought as much, but why the big production number?
What's the point?"
Ares (singing):
"You are the most divine delicious warrior."
Warriors (singing):
"Xena."
Ares (singing):
"A man can't help saluting your return."
Warriors (singing):
"Xena."
Ares (singing):
"And if you start my heart
It's just the way you slash and burn
Bewitching woman straining at the armor plate."
Warriors (singing):
"Xena."
Ares (singing):
"You singe me with the ardor you inflame."
Warriors (singing):
"Xena."
Ares (singing):
"And in my carnal heart there's not a sorry shred of shame."
Warriors (singing):
"You and me love war doesn't matter what it's for
Pandemonium reigns
And we're bludgeoning brains
Give us war, war, war
Keep it down to our roar."
Warrior (singing):
"Words of wisdom Ares said."
Ares (singing):
"When in battle keep your head."
Warriors (singing):
"Warriors love war, war, war! Yeah!"
Gabrielle (spoken):
"I know this place. These people. That shop! I'm home. This
is Poteidaia!"
Villager 1 (spoken):
"Hey look! It's Gabrielle!"
Villager 2 (Spoken):
"Gabrielle, you're back!"
Villagers (singing):
"Gabrielle. Gabrielle. Gabrielle.
Over the bridge of tears she's crossed
And she's paid a fearful cost
Her blood innocence is lost.
Gabrielle.
Now the past has set her free
And she has traveled home to be
With her old friends you and me
Gabrielle."
Villager 3 (singing):
"You've been plucked out from the heart of our lives for so long."
Villager 2 (singing):
"Now we're grateful you've come back to the place you belong."
Villagers (singing):
"For what is the panacea
Surely waits in Poteidaia
Welcome home, Gabrielle. Welcome home."
Gabrielle (spoken):
"Lila! Sister! I can't believe it."
Lila (singing):
"Villains, fools and Kings have made their mark on you
Leave their easy evil in the dust
If your child had lived we'd surely make her welcome too."
Villagers (singing):
"You and me love peace with the ducks and goats and geese
Wile the hours away, making bread, pitching hay
We love peace, peace, peace simple joys that never cease."
Villager 3 (singing):
"Nothing changes but the time."
Villagers (singing):
"We don't even change our minds.
Villagers love peace, peace, peace." Xena and Ares ride in a Chariot
Ares (singing):
"Pulverizing foes requires strategy
There's no mortal born who meets your skill
Xena join my vision don't deny your destiny."
Warriors (singing):
"You and me love war doesn't matter what it's for."
Warrior 1 (singing):
"Chop the tree down burn the root."
Ares (singing):
"Vengeance can be such a hoot."
Warriors (singing):
"Warriors love war, war ,war!" Lila (singing):
"Xena was no friend she worked to twist your mind
Though you tried to change her deadly ways
Take this scythe,
It's just a case of killing to be kind."
Villagers (singing):
"You and me love peace with the ducks and goats and geese
Sit and watch the world go by
Vegetate until you die
Villagers love peace, peace, peace." Warriors (singing): "We love war, fear, lies, smite and smoke
and pulverize."
Villagers (singing): "Just put your hand in mine, sure your future's
on the line, hope that she freed you."
Warriors (singing): "You've a son you must avenge, know you must exact
revenge."
Villagers (singing): "Peace!"
Warriors (singing): "War!"
Villagers (singing):"Peace!"
Warriors (singing): "War!"
Villagers (singing): "Peace!"
Warriors (singing): "War!" Xena kills Gabrielle Death
and The Hermit
Ares (singing):
"You're lost and confused
But I understand
This once beloved friend
Has been slain by your hand
You feel all alone
Betrayed and adrift
But maybe her loss
Can be viewed as a gift."
"Now I'll be your rock,
Your strength and support
Your close confidant
With whom you can consort
I know you completely
Come melt into me
Unleash the power
Of your destiny."
"You've proved to yourself
Now that you've made the kill
That you're just like me
With as evil a will
Our forces are meant
To be merged into one
The world will be panicked
When our work is done."
"Let the music of war
With it's lustful refrain
Arouse us to heights
With a passionate strength
Imagine how awesome
Together we'd be
So feel what I'm feeling
Come melt into me." Callisto appears as Justice
Callisto (singing):
"Did that fill you with glee?
To kill your little friend?
Did that ease your suffering
Or bring it to an end?
Let go
All of your anger will poison you yet
Unless you can just
Let go." Xena and Gabrielle in The Tower
Xena (singing):
"My heart is hurting beyond words
The pain is tearing up my soul
These days have seen my spirit die
My life propelled out of control
My wounds lie naked to the world
My depth of suffering exposed
This damaged past can never heal
Until this nightmare book is closed."
Gabrielle (singing):
"My heart is hurting beyond words
The pain is tearing up my soul
Please tell me how can I retrieve
The life that all this sadness stole
Because of you this happened
Because you had to carryout your vengeful little plans."
Xena (singing):
"It's you who should feel guilty
Because of you my child is dead
His blood is on your hands."
Gabrielle (singing):
"If only you had never brought me there."
Xena (singing):
"If only you had done what you were told."
Gabrielle (singing):
"It's you who's to be blamed."
Dahak (singing):
"It begins very small
Seems like nothing much at all
Just a germ, just a speck, just a grain
But the seed has been sown
And before you know it's grown
It has spread through your life like a stain
And it's power will strangle your love and your joy
And it's hunger consumes for it lives to destroy."
Xena (spoken):
"Gabrielle, that's what we're fighting, hatred."
Chorus:
"Hate is the star it becomes who you are
Not the hated but the hater
Has a torment that's greater."
Dahak (singing):
"It will eat you alive
Consume you and spit you out
Hate will win,
That there's no doubt about
Hate doesn't care who you are."
Chorus:
"Hate is the star!"
Dahak (singing):
"Learning hate is an art
Even people who are smart
Can be caught
Can be crushed
Can be creamed
It has swallowed you whole.
Did you think you're in control?
Hate you thought, hate you spoke, hate you dreamed
All your hate gave me substance
Your lives are undone
It's your eve of destruction
Your hatred has won."
Xena (Spoken):
"Gabrielle! Everything about this world has been a torment. We have
been guided to it for a reason. Whatever happens, we have to go through
it together." The
Lovers
Xena (singing):
"I never dreamed that we'd be distanced by a hate. That all the trust
we had would go."
Gabrielle (singing): "How could I hate you?"
Xena (singing): "How could it come to pass this awful twist of fate?"
Gabrielle (singing): "How could I hurt you?"
Xena (singing): "This madness can't be so."
Gabrielle (singing): "I can't believe it."
Xena (singing): "I never dreamed that any barriers could rise."
Gabrielle (singing): "Or that I'd ever see the stranger in your eyes."
Xena (singing): "Our hearts were hurting both the same."
Gabrielle (singing): "The hurt was tearing up our souls."
Xena (singing): "The fury in us made us blind."
Gabrielle (singing): "We could not see beyond the pain."
Xena (singing): "If we can turn again to love."
Gabrielle (singing): "If we can heal these open wounds."
Xena (singing): "We'll leave this hatred far behind."
Gabrielle (singing): "So not a trace of hate remains."
Both singing: "We'll overcome our damaged pasts.
And we'll grow stronger side by side.
To stand together through the storms.
We're safe 'cause love will be our guide." Forgiveness, The
Ace of Cups
Xena (singing):
"Yes I lied.
I thought I could protect you from the truth
Deliver you from evil
Spare your innocence and youth
That I could simply will it
Was the real untruth
I was wrong
I wore a mask to cover my deceit
But underneath it all I couldn't keep away my doubt
Now I'm left without a mask
With one question left to ask
I'm sorry, please help me, forgive me
Don't hate me, don't leave me, forgive me
Forgive me my debt as only you could
Forgive me the hate replace evil with good
Forgive me and find out that you
Will be able to forgive yourself too."
"My dear Solan
I never told you that you were my son
I didn't know the days we had left were so few
If I only knew
I'd have been with you
I'm so sorry
I couldn't be the mother you deserved
And I regret that I missed your first step.
Your first word
That I never heard
Now it seems absurd."
"Can you forgive me?
Open up your heart and let me in
No matter if the fates against us turn
There's on thing through all of this I've learned
That what I need from you is to forgive me,
I'm sorry, believe me
Stop hating, stop hurting, forgive me
Forgive those who'd harm you
Do good for those who hate
Forgive if not forget
I know it's not too late
Forgive me and you'll discover too
That the love of your love is you."
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