Perseo llega justo a tiempo. Cetus está a punto de devorar a Andrómeda cuando el héroe saca su arma más terrible: la cabeza de Medusa. Esta canción es el clímax de toda la historia, el momento exacto en que el monstruo se convierte en piedra y la princesa por fin queda libre.
Hay tres guiños reales de astronomía escondidos en la letra. Uno es la misma estrella parpadeante que ya apareció antes en el álbum, la que se apaga y se enciende como si durmiera. Otro es una galaxia espiral lejana que también tiene un apodo relacionado con criaturas marinas. Y el tercero marca justo la cola de la bestia, en el mismo punto exacto donde termina su cuerpo.
Letra
(Turn to stone!)
The sea winds scream, the shoreline starts to shake,
A titan rising in the foam and wake!
His breath of fire, his scales of rising storm,
An ancient nightmare taking monstrous form!
No time to pray, no room to step aside:
Either he falls, or I drown beneath the tide! (stand and fight!)
Unleash the cursed head, the weapon forged in dread,
Cetus, your final judgment overhead! (your end is near!)
The stone is calling! Fear crawls upon your skin!
The gods declare this is where your terrors end! (where they end!)
Medusa in my hands, stare straight into her eyes,
Forgive me, brother, but Olympus claims the skies! (it’s over now!)
Your flesh turns cold to granite, your fury bleeds away,
The horror shatters in the dawning of the day! (shatter the stone!)
The waters break against his petrified chest,
The beast is crumbling in the ocean west!
Mira fades out, then flares into the night,
A beating cosmic heart of variable light! (Mira’s eye!)
Out in the Squid Galaxy, a dormant spiral screams,
M-seventy-seven glowing in celestial streams!
Diphda at the tail marks the falling of the beast,
While starlight settles softly on the east! (calm the storm!)
The ocean pulls back slowly, the roaring winds are still,
A giant carved in ruin upon the silent hill.
His venom turns to ash, the broken shadows flee,
My name is carved forever in the sand beside the sea!
(Perseus never falls!)
(Perseus never yields!)
Face the destiny across eternal fields!
The stone is calling! Fear crawls upon your skin!
The gods declare this is where your terrors end! (where they end!)
Medusa in my hands, stare straight into her eyes,
Forgive me, brother, but Olympus claims the skies! (it’s over now!)
Your flesh turns cold to granite, your fury bleeds away,
The horror shatters in the dawning of the day! (shatter the stone!)
The monster is in ruins…
The chains are undone.
Andromeda, my princess…
I came for you.
Como en cada canción de Astronomika Beats, aquí hay más de un guiño astronómico escondido. Si ya los cazaste, cuéntanos en los comentarios qué encontraste. Si no, dale otra escuchada con atención.