A while ago I made fanmade lyrics for Appetite, a song that was cut from EPIC: The Musical. I figured “hey, what if I shared the lyrics?”
(Odysseus is wandering the island but then he hears someone coming and he assumes it’s Calypso so he hides. It is Calypso, but Hermes a cloaked stranger is following her.)
???: CALYPSO. MY DARLING.
Calypso: WHY WON’T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?
???: I’m barely just starting.
???: Odysseus shall leave for home
Calypso: …But Ody can’t just leave me here-
???: Darling, he’s not your man.
Calypso: I’ve been alone for all these years!
Calypso: When he washed ashore,
Calypso: I thought that it was the day
Calypso: I’d have something more!
Calypso: And I know there is still a way!
???: He wants to see Penelope.
Calypso: And what if he dies out at sea?
???: It’s her embrace he craves!
Calypso: Well, he isn’t yours to save-!
(Hermes The cloaked stranger slaps Calypso (maybe).)
???: HE’S MY GREAT GANDSON, I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW.
???: Zeus himself commands you let him go.
???: If you don’t set him free, he’ll sink your island to the bottom of Poseidon’s sea!
(Hermes dips and leaves Calypso alone. Calypso looks upset and throws a tantrum. Odysseus is thinking about what he just heard.)
ACT 2: There Are Other Ways
(This song is essentially the bit of Appetite as seen in the actual song. After Calypso calms down a bit, Odysseus comes out of his hiding spot and approaches her.)
Odysseus: Calypso, my darling,
Odysseus: I know that my attitude each year’s been so jarring.
Odysseus: I’ve spent my time mad at you while you’ve been so charming.
Odysseus: Suddenly my appetite
Odysseus: has changed. I’m starving for more than just a mean tonight
(Odysseus leads Calypso to her bedroom)
Odysseus: So wait for me, precious,
Odysseus: back where you have dreamt of us and lay where your bed is. I’ll be just a moment while I go and get ready. Don’t get impatient. There’s no time to spare. I think love is in the air.
(Odysseus leaves and locks Calypso in her room from the outside by putting a piece of driftwood through the handles of the doors. He bolts to a little cave where he was working on a boat. It’s almost done but not quite and he decides he needs to finish it right now so he finishes it up real fast, pushes it out into the sea, and now he’s in the ocean.)
(Odysseus is looking out in the ocean, still not fully able to believe that he finally got off the island.)
Odysseus: Penelope darling,
Odysseus: I know I’ve been gone for years.
Odysseus: It must be alarming.
Odysseus: You must have shed so many tears.
Odysseus: But I’ll be home soon.
Odysseus: Just wait a bit more.
Odysseus: Just sit by your loom until I reach our shores.
Odysseus: For years we have pondered when it would be I got back home.
Odysseus: For years we have wandered, but soon you will not be alone.
Odysseus: It may take a while.
Odysseus: But by the end we both will smile!
Odysseus: I’ll make my way across the sea
Odysseus: and back to you, Penelope!
(There’s like a beautiful orchestra with a bunch of strings and a viola at the forefront and at the end of this section there’s a small guitar playing and at first it’s happy but as Odysseus realizes he has no clue where he is or how he’s gonna get back to Ithaca, the guitar starts to sound more depressed. Ideally, it would transition into Dangerous.)