Medusa and the Angel (Canto IX) Lyrics

Left alone in fear and paleness
I see the figure of my master
Demons are behind
while the gates close in a slam

Dante is overwhelmed by the surroundings
Were not we allowed? Our trip blessed?
Uncertainty holds and grasps my heart
Cannot find any confort in my guide's eyes

Dante is still frightened, looking for an explanation, and tries to find relief in Virgilio
Spine shivers as feet make them near
infernal furies stained with blood
wrapped in serpents
aimed us in a feral flight
“Medusa come, to stone will change him”

Erinni's calling for Medusa
I feared we would have ended lost there,
under the high tower in red-flaming light

From the first grade
Someone fell to here ?"
Seldom, but don't worry
I know the way

Dante asks Virgilio if someone from Limbo has ever got to where they're going to Virgilio says rarely, but reassures him telling he has already been there during past
Souls Wandering 'cross the wastelands,
Stumbling among right and wrong,
Mined by temptations and remorse
Crying for a help from above

Down here reason has not
Any Redemption but
A mere second of relief
Salvation's under light of love

Reason itself is not sufficient: it's God, as Love, to enlighten human's path
Cover my eyes
Save me from sin

heavenly messenger