The Plagues

This song is written as the fight between Moses and Rameses for the people of Israel. God had sent Moses to Rameses, asking that his people be let free. Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go. As Rameses refused, God sent down plagues and punishments upon Egypt – blood in the river; frogs, lice and flies in their food; sickness in the cattle and the people; hail; locusts to eat everything; perpetual darkness, etc. But Rameses still refused to let them go. To top everything off, Rameses and Moses had been raised as brothers and once loved each other. Its two warring sides that were once family.

I feel that there are two sides fighting for me. I was once a strong believer. So amazing how strong I felt. Not anywhere like Susan Christian or anything, but I was tough. I can’t even explain it. It was my life. And now I’ve drifted off and been raised as an Egyptian. This is the life I’ve known. All that religion seems so foreign and far away. It doesn’t seem to apply to me and my right-now. Rameses knew what was right. He knew the thing to do was to let the people leave. God rained down punishment after punishment, making his life more and more unbearable. And Rameses still refused. I feel like I’m being thrown one punch after another. Like the world is turning on angle to make my life more miserable. I’m like Rameses, in a way. I know what I should do. I know the right thing, but I won’t do it. I can’t.

Then let my heart be hardened
And never mind how high the cost may grow
This will still be so
I will never let your people go

Its this constant war in my head. Screaming, shouting, swords banging. The head of each army is two sides of who I am. And they refuse to meld and work together. I just don’t if I can do it right now. Or ever.

Thus saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord…..

Since you refuse to free my people
All through the land of Egypt…

I send a pestilence and plague
Into your house, into your bed
Into your streams, into your streets
Into your drink, into your bread
Upon your cattle, on your sheep
Upon your oxen in your field
Into your dreams, into your sleep
Until you break, until you yield
I send the swarm
I send the horde
Thus saith the Lord

[Moses]
Once I called you brother
Once I thought the chance
to make you laugh
Was all I ever wanted…

[Choir]
I send the thunder from the sky
I send the fire raining down

[Moses]
And even now I wish that God had chose another
Serving as your foe on his behalf
Is the last thing that I wanted…

[Choir]
I send a hail of burning ice
On ev’ry field, on ev’ry town

[Moses]
This was my home
All this pain and devastation
How it tortures me inside
All the innocent who suffer
From your stubbornness and pride…

[Choir]
I send the locusts on a wind
Such as the world has never seen
On ev’ry leaf, on ev’ry stalk
Until there’s nothing left of green
I send my scourge
I send my sword
Thus saith the Lord!

[Moses]
You who I called brother
Why must you call down another blow?

[Choir]
I send my scourge
I send my sword

[Moses]
Let my people go

[Choir]
Thus saith the Lord

[Moses and Choir]
Thus saith the Lord

[Rameses]
You who I called brother
How could you have come to hate me so?
Is this what you wanted?

[Choir]
I send the swarm
I send the horde

[Rameses]
Then let my heart be hardened
And never mind how high the cost may grow
This will still be so
I will never let your people go

[Choir]
Thus saith the Lord

[Moses]
Thus saith the Lord

[Rameses]
I will not…

[Moses, Rameses, and Choir]
Let your/my people go!

The Plagues ~ Prince of Egypt Soundtrack