She Sees Right Through You

Music 2021, Lyrics 2022

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She dazzles with snake eyes
Entices with snake hair
She’ll turn you to rock
If the stories tell true

She sleeps with Poseidon
Angers Pallas Athena
But what really happened?
Why that’s up to you

Priestess pure
Golden curls
A lustful god
Can’t hear “No!” for an answer

Sea god almighty
Medusa so mortal
The goddess of wisdom
Strikes hard where she can

Do you blame victims
For the crimes of your transgression?
Kick those you knocked to the ground
By the body blows of your attacks?

See there: Medusa’s golden wings
She will protect the heart
Perhaps you fear this angel?
As she sees right through you
Right through you

Her assassin needed help
Just to get near her
Her kill a dead man
Without gobs of goddess power

Decapitation
The sword could not kill her
Her head in his bag
She takes his enemies down

From beyond Oceanus
The world’s hard edge
Among the daughters of evening
Hesperides light

Pegasus white-winged
Chrysaor’s sword gold
Children of light
A mother demon?

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Are you a fan of Perseus the Fool?
That witless boy who killed an angel
Perseus only stays alive
With Medusa’s eternal gaze

Look see: Medusa’s star-flecked eyes
Spirit chthonic power
Perhaps you still fear Medusa?
As she sees right through you
Right through you

Did Perseus really save a princess?
Her tormentor was turned to stone
Did Perseus really save his mother?
The king and his bodyguards: petrified!

Did Perseus save Andromeda?
Who really petrified the monster?
Did the princeling save his mother?
Medusa turned the king to stone!

Medusa resurrected
Rubs elbows with us all
Do you still fear Medusa?
As she still sees right through you
Right through you

Do you blame victims
For the crimes of your transgression?
Kick those you knocked to the ground
By the body blows of your attacks?

See there: Medusa’s golden wings
She will protect the heart
Perhaps you fear this angel?
As she sees right through you
Right through you

© Kirtland C. Peterson, m2021, w2022