The Parting of the Ways

Palene: My dreams did not lie. Our spies brought word that new legions were gathering. The Romans were still the hunters, we the hunted. And now we began to quarrel amongst ourselves: Asians against Mauritanians, Baeticans against Parthtans, but especially the Cauls and Cemians against our own Thracians
Crixus confronted Spartacus

Crixus:
Attack... that's what we've got to do
Once I had some faith in you
But now you're holding back
When you know we should attack
Revenge.,.that's what l'm looking for
A chance to even up the score
Is it courage that you lack
Dont you see we must attack Rome now!

Spartacus:
Escape... that's what we've got to do
Once I had belief in you
But that was at the start
Now it seems we've grown apart

Revenge... what good is that to us
If we fought to be free to just
Make others into slaves
We deserve our early graves
We must escape!

Crixus:
We must attack!

Spartacus:
You must be mad!

Crixus:
You must be blind
We must attack!

Spartacus:
We must escape!

Crixus:
You've lost your nerve!

Spartacus:
You've lost your mind!

Palene: Faces suddenly red, hands on swords, Spartacus and Crixus were about to fight. Spartacus turned away. He and Crixus were already a world apart

Crixus:
Oh Spartacus, if only our dreams could be the same

"THE PARTING OF THE WAYS"

Crixus:
It's strange to find we're almost strangers
As I turn to leave you now
I know there are dangers
You have believed in me
As l believed in you
But it's not hard to see
In the end a man should do
What his heart tells him he must
And so I place my thrust in the parting of the ways

The days that I have stood beside you
They are days that I could not forget if I tried to
But day has turned to night
Life's changed for you and me
Who knows what's wrong or right
We'll agree to disagree
Now the time for talk has passed
And so we reach at last the parting of the ways
Now I need to find my own direction

Side by side we faced the world together;
But nothing lasts forever
And so the story ends
More than pride's dividing you and I now
And though we say goodbye now
At least we part as friends

It seems our future is decided
Now the fates dictate that you and I be divided
And though it's hard to tell
Where we will go from here
You know I wish you well
Even though my course is clear
It's no easy thing I do
To walk away from you at the parting of the ways
Though I need to find my own direction
You can bet I'll never forget
The times we've come through
But now we come to
The parting of the ways

Palene: We watched Crixus, with thirty thousand Cauls and Germans trudge away southwards until a small cloud of dust in the distance was all that was left, I looked at Spartacus. His hawk-eyes were moist but never blinked
When he spoke, it was to thank the Gods for the seventy thousand that stayed
Who could fail to love such a man?

Crixus:
Now I need to find my own direction
You can bet I'll never forget
The times we've come through
But now we come to
The parting of the ways