Bitter Suite lyrics

The Bitter Suite was the first musical episode of Xena. And by the Gods, they pulled it off. Better than anyone thought they could have.

WHAT 'S STILL UNWRITTEN...

Callisto

Ohh, Glad that you're feelin' strong

Thought I might lose ya.

Don't use words, sing a song

This is Illusia

Song of Illusia

Callisto

Xena be warned, Xena beware

By closing your eyes you can see what isn' t there

Xena be calm, open your eyes

Lies may be truth and truth may be lies

Fate is a wheel, it will reveal

All you've become, all that you feel

Destiny knows what has to be

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

White Dog

All in the lips that you kissed...ahhh

Callisto

Lion and bull, eagle and snake

To live or die It's a choice you have got to make

Can you undo what you create

Step through the wheel

Follow your fate

Chorus of Animals

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

Your villainous infamy tortures your soul

Descent into evil must levy it's toll

The darkness that rots you has brought you to this

Snake

Surrender serenity, suffer sweet misery

Sin seeks it's cursed abyss

Anubis

Oh Xena, with death there is always rebirth

Sphinx

Come see with a vision denied you on earth

Callisto

Illusia is waiting: we'll show you the way

But all consequences are your own creation

And there's a price you must pay

Calisto and Chorus of Animals

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 (Don't turn away, don't start to fade)

Callisto

What's still unwritten you can erase

Chorus of Animals

Illusia is music, a world build on rhyme It's carved out of space, in the absence of ....

Xena

All right Callisto

You like little dittes. Fine. I've got one for ya

You're actin' so strangly that I hardly know ya

but still I would't trust you far as I throw ya

Callisto

You're wrong not to trust the one that knows you so well

I haven't betrayed you That was Gabrielle

Xena

Gabrielle. Is she here? The one who betrayed me is she in this land?

Callisto

I'm merely your guide dear along for a grin

You'll get not free ride here If you want to know more, then spinn

Gabrielle

The Elysian fields. Only heroes wind up here.

Dead heros... Dead naked heros...

JOXER THE MIGHTY

Joxer the Mighty,

master of georgraphy

Here to guide you on your way

Stick with me, you'll never stray

If you're in the land that's new

I'm the man who'll get you through

Even when you're slightly nude

I'm Joxer! Joxer, the Mighty!

Joxer

We're in illusia

Gabrielle

So much for the Elysian Fields theory

Joxer

Yeeh

Gabrielle

How did you...

Joxer go away... Can't you see, I'm naked...

Joxer

Okay, but, maybe I could, like, help you out, with--

Beeing naked won't excuse you

Sing to talk we're in illusia

WAR AND PEACE

Warriors

Praise the winds of chance that blew

Xena back where friends are true

We would fight to death for you brave Xena

When your mighty chakram arcs

throwing fierce magnetic sparks

No one ever hits her marks like Xena

Famed for prowess with a sword

Who's as feared and as adored

You've not lived till you've been gored by Xena

Warrior #1

You're the Warrior Princess who's as strong as an oak

Warrior #2

You've got eyes that can tear out the heart of a bloke

Warrior #3

With one look you can wilt a flower

Warrior #4

curdle milk or make men cower

All Warriors

Welcome home,Xena, welcome home

Xena

Ares, I thought as much. But why the big production number?

What's the point?

Ares

Your are the most devine, delicious warrior

A man can't help saluting your return

And if you start my heart it's just the way you slash and burn

Bewitching women, straining at the armor plate

You singe me with the ardor you inflame

And in my carnal heart there's not a sorry shred of shame

All Warriors

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 a roar

Warrior #5

Words of wisdom Ares said

Ares

When in battle keep your head

All Warriors

Warriors love War,War,War

Villagers

Gabrielle, Gabrielle, Gabrielle...

O'er 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's traveled home to be

With her old Friends you and me, Gabrielle

Villager #1

You've been plucked out from the heart of our lives for so long

Villager #2

Now we're grateful you've come back to the place you belong

Villager #3

For what ails the panacea

Villager #4

Surely waits in Poteidia

All Villagers

Welcome home, Gabrielle, welcome home

Lila

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

All Villagers

You and me love peace with the ducks and goates and geese

While the hours away baking bread, pitching hay

We love peace,peace,peace, simple joys that never cease

Villager #1

Nothing changes but the time

Small Group of Villagers

We don't even change our mind

All Villagers

Villagers love Peace,Peace,Peace

Ares

Pulverizing foes requires strategy

There's no mortal born who meets your skill

Xena join my vision-don't deny your destiny

All Warriors

You and me love war Doesn't matter what it's for

Warrior #6

Chop the tree down, burn the root

Ares

Vengeance can be such a hoot

All Warriors

Warriors love War,War,War

Lila

Xena was no friend, she worked to twist your mind

Though you tried to change her deadly ways

Take the scythe-it's just a case of killing to be kind

All Villagers

You and me love peace with the ducks and goats and geese

Lila

Sit and watch the world go by

Village Couple

Vegetate until you die

All Villagers

Villagers love Peace,Peace,Peace

Warriors

We love War

Villagers

Peace is such a Lovely state...

War can kill you so can hate

Warriors

Fear! Lies! Smite and smote and pulverize

Villagers

Here the simple life's a delight

Warriors

Pus and Gore

Villagers

Just you put your hand in mine,

sure your future's on the line

Warriors

You've a son you must avenge,

know you must extract revenge

Villagers

You must know that when

Warriors

Don't be put aside by beauty

Xena you must do your duty

Villagers

Hope died she freed you

All Voices

Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ...

Ah ah ah ,ah ah ah ah ah ...

Villagers

Peace!

Warriors

War!

Villagers

Peace!

Warriors

War!

MELT INTO ME

Ares

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 strain

Imagine how awesome together we'd be

So feel what I'm feeling

Come melt into me

Callisto

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

HEARTS ARE HURTING

Part One

Xena

How are you feeling right know, Nothing about the past, right now

Gabrielle

I hurt inside, don't you...

Xena

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

My heart is hurting beyond words

The pain is tearing up my soul

Please tell me how can I retrieve the life that all the sadness stole

Because of you this happened

Because you had to carry out your vengeful little plans

Xena

It's you who should be guilty

Because of you my child is dead

His blood is on your hands

Gabrielle

If only you had never brought me there

Xena

If only you had done what you were told

Gabrielle

It's you who's to be blamed

Xena

And you should be ashamed

Gabrielle

It's your fault

Xena

No it's yours

Gabrielle

How could you

Xena

How could you

It's your fault...

HATE IS THE STAR

Song of Torment

Gabrielle

It's Dahak. This is where it started. I can't. I can't

Xena

No Garbielle.

Gabrielle

I can't.

Xena

Look Gabrielle everything about this place has been a Torment We've been guided through it for a reason, whatever happens we have to go through it together.

Hate

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 you life like a stain

And its power will strangle your love and joy

and its hunger consumes for it lives to destroy, Hahaha....

Hate is the star: it becomes who you are

Not the hated, but the hater

has a torment that's greater

It will eat you alive, consume you and spit you out

Hate's gonna win that there's no doubt about

Hate doesn't care who you are-Hate Is The Star!

Learning hate is an art, even people who are smart

can be caught, can be crushed, can be creamed

Hate 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!

HEARTS ARE HURTING

Part Two

Xena

I never dreamed that we'd be distanced by a hate

that all the trust we had would go

Gabrielle

How could I hate you

Xena

How could it come to pass

This awful twist of fate

Gabrielle

How could I hurt you

Xena

This madness can't be so

Gabrielle

I can't believe it

Xena

I never dreamed that any barriers could rise

Gabrielle

Or that I'd ever see the stranger in your eyes

Xena

Our hearts were hurting both the same

Gabrielle

The hurt was tearing up our souls

Xena

The fury in us made us blind

Gabrielle

We could not see beyond the pain

Xena

If we can turn again to love

Gabrielle

If we can heal these open wounds

Xena

We'll leave this hatred far behind

Gabrielle

So not a trace of hate remains

Both

We'll overcome our damaged past

And we'll grow stronger side by side

To stand together through the storms

We're safe cause love will be our guide

THE LOVE OF YOUR LOVE

Gabrielle

Solan. it was him. He's why we're here. It's the way out It's gotta be... He's here to lead us home. Come on... Come on... Xena Quick

Xena

I can't

Gabrielle

Of course you can

Xena

It no use Gabrielle It's Ming Tien. I killed him. I killed you bustard

Gabrielle

You lied?... You gave me your word... You lied...

Xena

(Singing) Yes, I lied

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

And 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 one 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 harm you

Do good for those who hate

Forgive, if not forget

I know it's not to late

Forgive me and you'll discover too

That the love of your love is you