Elissabetha - SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS (Symphonic Epic Metal)

Lyrics:

Verse 1

No map survives this narrowing sea
No oath escapes the tide
Two deaths rise where the waters split
And both demand a side

The wind cuts sharp across the deck
The mast begins to cry
You move or break, you choose or sink
Between the teeth and sky

(ohhh)

Verse 2

One breath is torn by waiting jaws
One breath by endless pull
You count the cost in heartbeats lost
Both answers carved in full

No hero sings his way through this
No god will take the wheel
You live by choosing how you bleed
Not if the wound is real

(haa)

Chorus

Between the jaws, between the tide
ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει
No path is clean, no fate is kind
You choose the scar you leave behind
μεταξὺ θανάτου καὶ βυθοῦ
You move — or you are left to drown

Verse 3

The sea remembers every doubt
It sharpens what you fear
The longer that you hesitate
The closer death draws near

No prayer splits the waves apart
No courage bends the deep
You turn the helm with shaking hands
And pay the price you keep

(ohhh)

Verse 4

They’ll call it madness, call it wrong
They’ll weigh the loss in song
But those who stand to count the dead
Were never here this long

A broken choice is still a choice
A wound can still be ground
You did not fall between the two
You cut your way around

Chorus

Between the jaws, between the tide
ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει
No path is clean, no fate is kind
You choose the scar you leave behind
μεταξὺ θανάτου καὶ βυθοῦ
You move — or you are left to drown

Bridge

ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει
(Growl, kurz & tief): ἀνάγκη
ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει

Chorus

Between the jaws, between the tide
ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει
No path is clean, no fate is kind
You choose the scar you leave behind
μεταξὺ θανάτου καὶ βυθοῦ
You move — or you are left to drown

Final Chorus

Between the jaws, between the tide
ἀνάγκη οὐ φεύγει
I chose the wound that let me live
No crown, no praise, no cleaner end
μεταξὺ θανάτου καὶ βυθοῦ
I moved — and did not disappear

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— About this album —

This song is part of the symphonic metal album
PENELOPE — a retelling of the Odyssey
from the voice that waited.

Not the hero who sailed,
but the woman who remained.

These songs explore loyalty, silence, endurance,
and the quiet strength of those history leaves behind.

No glory.
No conquest.
Only time, memory, and resolve.

Listen in order for the full journey.