#filk #acousticonetake #personwithpiano #mythology #resistance This set of lyrics came to me while watching the show Kaos last summer. I was rewatching it, examining why I had loved it so fiercely during my first watch. I grew up in a patriarchal hierarchy. Men had all the control and they very often made the women who didn't comply into monsters. Medusa's story has tugged at me a few times, even though spiritually I generally don't dabble with the Greeks. But when I had a conversation with my little brother about the symbolism of Medusas in the tattoo world I really wanted to use this story to punch up. I hope I've done that here. I really agonized about the ending lines.

I'm stepping out of burnout little by little. The Sawtooth melody challenge really spoke to this set of lyrics and I love the riff I found on the piano for it. Sorta, kinda F minor.

If you murder what the gods made monstrous Does that make you better than the monster in the dark? If you root out that which makes you cower Does that mean you'll never lose the courage in your heart The monsters hold the mirrors If you face Medusa's Tears You might see a spark that all had thought Gone out

Even gods fear what they have made monstrous They feed from your disgust like it's a prayer Even gods fear the things that make you shiver For if you dare embrace it they despair Empathy is clear In Medusa's bowl of tears See your face the way you dare not See yourself

If you murder what the gods made monstrous You've become the very thing you swore you'd fight If you root out that which makes you cower You will rob us of our chance to make wrongs right The monsters hold the mirrors We all face Medusa's tears To see the gods are monster that we've bathed in light The monsters hold the mirrors We all face Medusa's tears To see the gods have made the monsters for our fright The monsters hold the mirrors We all face Medusa's tears To see the monsters are the gods For whom we swore we'd Fight