Heorot

[DAVE MALLOY]
(Three, four!)

[HROTHGAR]
This is our mead-hall, Heorot!
Welcome to our mead-hall, please
Inside all royals relax; coma,
Outside storks spit disease!

[CHORUS]
Now blood smears 'cross our walls!

[HROTHGAR]
Thick from flesh, fourteen years.

[CHORUS]
Our king once ruled with metal and might!

[HROTHGAR]
Now all I do is rule with fear
This is my king hall, Heorot!

[CHORUS]
And he is Hrothgar, King all King!

[HROTHGAR]
King of hall was great, now, not...
My kingly hall is crumbling!

[CHORUS]
How I think your peoples' tumbling!

[CHORUS, HROTHGAR]
Tumbling turned against the floor!

[HROTHGAR]
Welcome to our mead-hall, Heorot!

[CHORUS]
Pull up a broken chair!

[HROTHGAR]
Our heads and hearts are broken too!
Splattered in disrepair!
Welcome to our mead-hall, Heorot!

[CHORUS]
Pull up a broken chair!

[HROTHGAR]
Our heads and hearts are broken too!
Splattered in disrepair!

[ACADEMIC 2]
At godspeed, the monster came,
And again, he came at godspeed!
Night after night, he ripped apart and tore the men from limb to bleed.

[ACADEMIC 3]
At godspeed, he raged a war,
Then bled the men like cows and pigs.
He pulverized the men like meat,
And snapped their bones like tiny twigs.

[ACADEMIC 2]
During the day, they would count the dead,
Mop up the blood, and burn the pyre,
And sometimes without blessings to Odin,
Would throw the bodies into the fire.

[ACADEMIC 3]
Because what kind of hope, after fourteen years,
Can be kept alive?
A dwindling flame,
Watching your men-folk diminish each night
At the hands of the son of Cain.

[ACADEMIC 2]
Gauwsctorm a tuth crowgnon [Old English?]
May Odin sing and rain down...
Soothing honey inside your brain...

[WOMAN]
It's quite a hoot, as you say,
And it's stinging!
My ears resounding with tinnitus, ringing!
But now my heart pumps the blood of my clan.
I still will, tomorrow, fight on!

[SOLDIERS]
Fight on!

[WOMAN]
Fight on...

[HROTHGAR, SOLDIERS]
Fight on! (x5)

[WOMAN]
Night
And quite a fight it will be!
But I fear, brother, warrior, my dear.
Rest, and quiet: what you need now.
Let your sword drop.
Loosen gripped fist and pass off to sleep,
Dream gently of wist!

[ACADEMIC 3]
Grendel against all thee!

[ACADEMIC 2]
Yes, Grendel got you, yes!

[ACADEMIC 3]
Grendel against all thee!

[ACADEMIC 2]
Cast off, peace, and rest.

[HROTHGAR, SOLDIERS]
Welcome to our mead-hall, Heorot!

[SOLDIERS]
Pull up a broken chair!

[HROTHGAR, SOLDIER]
Our heads and hearts are broken too -
Are broken too.