Interestingly, Odysseus began his journey- more or less- by going to the land of the Lotus Eaters- which is earlier on in the album.
After that, he headed to the land of the cyclopes, and entered the cave of one of them, a giant with one eye - "He must be about one hundred foot tall/And he only has one eye". The cyclops eats half his men and says he'll give him a gift if Odysseus tells him his name. Odysseus says it's "Nobody". Later on, Odysseus blinds him and when the other cyclops go to see what the matter is he screams "Nobody is hurting me". In the morning, Odysseus and his men hide under the cyclops' sheep and escape- "He asks me for my autograph/I write nobody and then/I wrap myself up in my woolly coat/And I blind him with my pen".
After that they reach the home of Aeolus, god of the winds. He gives them a gentle breeze home, but when his men open the bag he gave Odysseus it sends them off astray- "And so much wind blew through her words/That I went rolling down the hall".
Next they reach the land of the Laestragonians, who are man-eating giants and eat most of his men- "The other half are cooking". After that they find themselves on the island of the witch Circe, who turns half his men into pigs- "Half the people have turned into squealing pigs". Later, after Odysseus has saved his men, he sets off again and finds the Sirens, a group of nymphs who try to sing sailors into their rocks. Wanting to hear them, he made his men strap him to his mast and fill their ears with beeswax- "And I saw Miss Polly singing with some girls/I cried struck me to the mast".
Later on, he arrives at the house of the sun god (there are LOADS of references to the sun all about the song) who kills the rest of his men. He washes up on the shore of the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and keeps him captive, offering him immortality. So he sleeps with her for 7 years, all the while yearning to return home to his wife Penelope- "Spent the next seven years between her legs/A-pining for my wife".
It's the Odyssey! =D
Interestingly, Odysseus began his journey- more or less- by going to the land of the Lotus Eaters- which is earlier on in the album.
After that, he headed to the land of the cyclopes, and entered the cave of one of them, a giant with one eye - "He must be about one hundred foot tall/And he only has one eye". The cyclops eats half his men and says he'll give him a gift if Odysseus tells him his name. Odysseus says it's "Nobody". Later on, Odysseus blinds him and when the other cyclops go to see what the matter is he screams "Nobody is hurting me". In the morning, Odysseus and his men hide under the cyclops' sheep and escape- "He asks me for my autograph/I write nobody and then/I wrap myself up in my woolly coat/And I blind him with my pen".
After that they reach the home of Aeolus, god of the winds. He gives them a gentle breeze home, but when his men open the bag he gave Odysseus it sends them off astray- "And so much wind blew through her words/That I went rolling down the hall".
Next they reach the land of the Laestragonians, who are man-eating giants and eat most of his men- "The other half are cooking". After that they find themselves on the island of the witch Circe, who turns half his men into pigs- "Half the people have turned into squealing pigs". Later, after Odysseus has saved his men, he sets off again and finds the Sirens, a group of nymphs who try to sing sailors into their rocks. Wanting to hear them, he made his men strap him to his mast and fill their ears with beeswax- "And I saw Miss Polly singing with some girls/I cried struck me to the mast".
Later on, he arrives at the house of the sun god (there are LOADS of references to the sun all about the song) who kills the rest of his men. He washes up on the shore of the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and keeps him captive, offering him immortality. So he sleeps with her for 7 years, all the while yearning to return home to his wife Penelope- "Spent the next seven years between her legs/A-pining for my wife".