The Tree on the Hill

[PERCY, spoken]
Who's Thalia?

[GROVER, spoken]
I haven't heard that name in a long time

[PERCY, spoken]
You know who she is?

[GROVER, spoken]
She was my friend
I should've told you. I just thought, if you knew, you'd never want me on this quest. If you knew what a failure I really am

[GROVER]
There's a tree on the hill, up on Half-Blood Hill
That watches over us, silent and still
And no one at camp is safe until
We can see the tree on the hill

[GROVER, spoken]
This was way before I met you. Chiron sent me to escort three half-bloods to camp. Two were runaways. One was Annabeth. The other was Luke
And the third was Thalia

[THALIA, LUKE & ANNABETH]
Ooh

[GROVER, spoken]
Tough girl. Like her dad, Zeus

[PERCY, spoken]
I thought I was the only kid of the Big Three Gods

[GROVER, spoken]
You are now

[THALIA, LUKE & ANNABETH]
Ooh

[GROVER, spoken]
We'd almost made it back to camp, but I got nervous and we got lost. And by the time we found the hill
Something found us.​

[GROVER, ENSEMBLE]
And there on the hill, up on Half-Blood Hill (Ah)
A cold wind blew, dark and chill (Ah)
For nothing would slake its wrathful will (Ah)
We had to make a stand

And maybe if I'd been a little bit braver
Maybe if I'd stayed behind to fight
But "maybe" doesn't let me go back and save her
"Maybe" doesn't make it alright

[GROVER, spoken]
Thalia saved us. We only survived because she stayed to hold off the monsters. She paid for her sacrifice with her life. That's when Zeus showed up

[PERCY, spoken]
And saved her, right?

[GROVER, spoken]
It was too late for that

[THALIA]
Ooh
Ah

[GROVER, spoken]
As she died, he turned her into a tree, so she could stand protecting us, forever
The way I couldn't do for her.​​

[GROVER]
There's a tree on the hill, up on Half-Blood Hill
That protects us all, and always will
And it's there reminding me
Of all I failed to be
The tree on the hill