Dead Can Dance Ulysses Lyrics

Ulysses Lyrics

John Francis Dooley, wipe the sleep from your eyes

And embrace the
light

You have slept now for a thousand years

Beneath starless
nights

And now it's time for you to renounce the old ways

And to
see a new dawn rise



In former days, the masks were raised

When the god came down from off the mountain

And a sacrifice was
made

For they knew that the day of wrath was fast approaching

Just
like yesterday, before the war

John Francis Dooley, the scapegoat has
run

All our sins are disowned

And now it's time for you to take off
your mask

And cross the Rubicon



If you and I were one within
the eyes of our designs

It would still not change the fact of our
leaving

For tonight we must leave with the first gentle breeze

For
the Isles of Ken we are assailing



Just like Ulysses on the open
sea

On an odyssey of self-discovery