Gang Of Youths - Achilles, Come Down (Lyrics)

The moment in the harmony where one voice says "Get off the roof" and the other says "Jump off the roof" just hits different

Achillies: I'm going to jump Apollo: do a flip

"See life as a worthy opponent." Underrated line.

As someone who read The Illiad and Odyssey. Achilles' pride and the death of Patroclos really drove him to the edge. This song definitely highlights it.

Patroclus : Achilles come down Agamemnon : DO A FLIP

I feel like the line "the most dangerous thing is to love" is not to be interpreted as "loving is dangerous because love can be lost" but instead as "it's dangerous to love because love can inspire you so passionately that it can become a force to rival the gods"

Patroclus was so scared of seeing Achilles die, promising that after his death he would kill himself right after, but never did it cross his mind that he'd die first. He completely ignored thetis' warning that he'd die soon because the thought of his lover dying was eating him alive

"The goddess, the mortal, and the boy who was both"-the song of achilles. Hands down one of my favorite route's. Its not talked about too much, but for some reason that line truly broke my heart.

I kind of really love how the voice telling him to jump is so monotone and emotionless, while the voice telling him not to is full of emotion and sounds so much more human.

“You crave the applause yet hate the attention, then miss it.” Well that’s deep

"You're scaring us, and all of us-" Looks at Agamemnon "Some of us love you"

The French parts of this song (the faint parts) translate roughly to: On the other hand, I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). ... Of an apartment-building manager who had killed himself I was told that he had lost his daughter five years before, that he had changed greatly since, and that that experience had "undermined" him. … What sets off the crisis is almost always unverifiable. Newspapers often speak of "personal sorrows" or of "incurable illness." These explanations are plausible. But one would have to know whether a friend of the desperate man had not that very day addressed him indifferently. … ...the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. … ...either yes or no. This would be too easy. But allowance must be made for those who, without concluding, continue questioning. Here I am only slightly indulging in irony: this is the majority. I notice also that those who answer "no" act as if they thought "yes." As a matter of fact, if I accept the Nietzschean criterion, they think "yes" in one way or another.

I understand the song is someone speaking to him, but I can also picture this song as two sides of his mind, him fighting against his own thoughts and impulses

And they were roommates.

"...he smiled, and his face was like the sun." "Achilles’ eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness." "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world." "His trust was a part of him, as much as his hands or his miraculous feet. And despite my hurt, I would not wish to see it gone, to see him as uneasy and fearful as the rest of us, for any price." "I had seen the way he looked at Deidameia; or rather the way he did not. It was the same way he had looked at the boys in Phthia, blank and unseeing. He had never, not once, looked at me that way." “What has Hector ever done to me?” “My life is my reputation,” he says. His breath sounds ragged. “It is all I have. I will not live much longer. Memory is all I can hope for.” "There is no fame greater than this—you will prove to them all that your phantom is more powerful than Agamemnon’s whole army." "His tears fall, but I cannot wipe them away." “My consolation is that we will be together in the underworld. That we will meet again there, if not in this life. I would not wish to be there without her.” “I have done it,” she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS. “Go,” she says. “He waits for you.” In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun." "I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me." The Song of Achilles has changed my life. This is the most beautiful book I have ever read, enjoyed, and felt. It will take me forever to find another one that could even come close to what this book has made me experience.

Still cant get over how achilles smiles when his heart is pierced by the arrow. Hit right where he burned the most. His heart being the ultimate cause of his destruction.

Patroclus: Some of us love you Agamemnon: Emphasis on SOME

Can we talk about how listening to this whole song feels like watching a whole ass movie. I'm not complaining.

Read the book they said. It's a good book they said. The writing and description is lovely they said. Never did they mention that it would emotionally scar and reck me. I am currently crying after reading said book. This is great ✌️😀

"Loathe the way they light candles in Rome, but love the sweet air of the votives. Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone, engage with the pain as a motive" Pure Poetry