The Underworld is the first song of The Underworld Saga during which Odysseus and his crew plunge into the underworld to find the prophet Tiresias.
Lyrics[]
[ODYSSEUS] [CREW] [ODYSSEUS] [CREW] [ODYSSEUS, spoken] [ODYSSEUS, CREW] [FALLEN SOLDIERS] [ODYSSEUS, CREW, ALL] [POLITES] [ODYSSEUS, spoken] [POLITES] [ODYSSEUS] [ANTICLEA] [ODYSSEUS, spoken] [ANTICLEA] [ODYSSEUS, spoken] [ANTICLEA, ODYSSEUS, BOTH] [ODYSSEUS, ANTICLEA] [BOTH] [ODYSSUES, spoken] |
Trivia[]
- This song is the second longest song in Act 1, only topped by Ruthlessness.
- The chorus is a reference to one of the many songs that were cut from the show, Ismarus.
- When the fallen crew mates are singing we hear multiple callbacks to past songs such as Ruthlessness, and Just A Man.
- At the end of Ruthlessness, Poseidon tells Odysseus that 43 members of his crew are left following the former's attack. This would mean that 557 crew members have died since they started the journey back to Ithaca. However, when Odysseus is faced with the fallen crew mates in the Underworld, they tell their former captain that 558 men died under his command.
- While this may seem like a miscalculation, it’s actually a reference to Elpenor, a member of Odysseus's crew that got drunk while they were on Circe’s island and fell off of the palace’s roof to his death.
- In the Odyssey, Odysseus finds Elpenor in the Underworld. This part was originally going to be included in the song before being cut.
- Despite no longer playing a major role in the show, Elpenor makes brief cameos in Storm and Keep Your Friends Close, where he is played by Luke Holt.
- The church bells that play as Odysseus reminisces on the infant he killed share the melody of the music box that plays when Odysseus first sees Astyanax in The Horse and the Infant.
- When Polites appears, he reprises the chorus of Open Arms.
- Anticlea, Odysseus's mom, is actually voiced by Jorge's mother.
- In the Odyssey, Anticlea died of a broken heart while Odysseus was fighting the Trojan War, a fact that Aphrodite states in God Games.
- According to Jorge, the lines from the fallen soldiers, Polites, and Anticlea are the thoughts that they had before they died.[1]