Intro
It’s the Mix Master,
Yo, and I’m here today,
To do a song about Eumenides and the trial, so listen up close.
Verse
Alright, here we go, the beat sets the tone,
Mixed by the El well with bass locked in stone,
Today we have the story of the trial of Orestes,
A test set on mortal men to last centuries,
Now, Athena, herald, and the citizens of the jury,
The ghost of Clytemnestra and those bitch ass furies,
Let us begin with case zero-zero-one,
On whether to hang Orestes or let the kid run,
Now I stun with ill rhymes as I say them in time,
We choose who we lose when we use our own kind,
To set up a system and condemn who we please,
Remains as our right, makes easy to see,
Yet, this is a bit different, so listen up close,
Understand he killed his mama, hell, everyone knows,
You gotta decide whether or not she had it coming,
And we close for the chorus as I hit the ground running.
Chorus
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
Hear her verdict,
And set him free,
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
The cycle ends rightly,
With Orestes.
Verse
Now, we kickin’ it live, kickin’ it right,
Kickin’ it high, kickin’ it, why? We kickin’ it tight,
Patience, while the jury be deliberatin’,
Waiting for the verdict to see if he was hatin’,
Uh oh, they don’t know what’s up,
Citizens can’t decide if he’s shit out of luck,
Or should be set free, hell, if it was me,
I’d say fry that bitch, though no electricity,
Now, we call upon Athena to be the judge,
Just like old times when gods ruled and such,
So much for the power in the hands of the humans,
Too stupid to know what to do so no improvements,
But it’s a judgment call, fuck the evidence,
And a choice to set him free might mean severance,
Athena decides, but we retain irreverence,
And we can do this on our own, and that’s the lesson then.
Chorus
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
Hear her verdict,
And set him free,
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
The cycle ends rightly,
With Orestes.
Bridge
And I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, it seems so easy,
Hear her verdict, and set him free,
The cycle ends rightly with Orestes.
Chorus
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
Hear her verdict,
And set him free,
Now, I can’t see why it would be,
Different from this, so easy,
The cycle ends rightly,
With Orestes.
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