Eulogy For No Name

[Lyric Note]
Scene IV

The Netherworld / hospital room

As the dust settles, Cassius and Pollock appear tattered and bloodied, floating in a grey nothingness

[Narrator]
Soon as you were born, you were aborted
Cast away
Child of moral doctrine and rape—
Lord knows, the monsters that marriage makes

Lost wolves void of direction
Head south, thrown in corrections
They gave you no name, gave you no name
They gave you no name

[Lyric Note]
The mysterious ether dissolves, and Cassius and Pollock slowly vanish. We see an old man, in the twins' image, rolled in on a gurney. The setting is now a modern day hospital room

[Narrator]
A lifetime of brawling with demons
Makes a fallen man
Even on his deathbed he's beaten
Pinned by his fiendish inner twin
Such turmoil in your head
Will it never let you rest?

[Lyric Note]
Young Cassius enters, and walks over to bedside

[Narrator]
Blank cake, a blank birth certificate
Blank boy made a decision
They gave you no name, gave you no name
So, you'll give yourself a name:

[Young Cassius]
I am Gemini

[Narrator]
A twin star burst into being

[Young Cassius]
I am Gemini

[Narrator]
Splattered on the orphanage ceiling
The other children ran off in terror
On your dying day, does absolution even work?
On this, your dying day, do you curse the universe...
Do you wish you never were?

[Lyric Note]
The man dies. Young Cassius disappears. A loud crack of thunder rumbles as the hospital scene, now divided by a large fissure across the floor, splits into two halves spiraling backwards into an abyss

[Narrator]
Lost twin screaming in the attic
No remedy, no respite
You gave him no name, you gave him no name
So, he gave himself a name

[Lyric Note]
—curtain descends, slowly