Jorge Rivera-Herrans
In Vain [Version 2]
[POSEIDON, spoken]
There you are, coward
[POSEIDON]
There's an anger that festers
A pain that’s worse than death
Take a stranger, make him lesser
Strip away what he has left
That's where I'm at
That’s who I've been
I don't know who I'm meant to be
I was a ruthless god
But you took that away from me
What kind of man
Cannot avenge his crying son?
What kind of monster
Gets outsmarted and outrun?
What kind of god
Doesn't get to end what he's begun?
In vain, in vain
Every night
My son wakes from nightmares, submerged in fright
He dreams of the monstеr who took his sight
Then cries becausе his dad failed to make things right
Hate—my son now regards me with hate
No chance at redemption
No room for a clean slate
The one thing I loved
Learned to hate me for eight
Long years
But hey
If my world must go down in waves
If there is no love left to save
I'll make sure it wasn't in vain!
‘Cause I’m about to bring the pain
Nobody, where did your friends go?
All of the ones that I let go—
Don’t tell me they're dead now
That would be such a letdown
‘Cause you don’t know what I know
I will make your mind blown
All your friends died in vain!
Their deaths were no more than stains
For nothing they were slain
Your trials have all been in vain
‘Cause I'm about to bring the pain
Ruthlessness is
Mercy upon
Ourselves
Die!