Return to Ithaka
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| Album track by Weezer | ||||||||||||||
| Album | Everything Will Be Alright in the End | |||||||||||||
| Released | October 7, 2014 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2014, The Village, Los Angeles, CA | |||||||||||||
| Length | 2:17 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Republic Records | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Ric Ocasek | |||||||||||||
| Status | Officially released | |||||||||||||
| Live debut | October 24, 2014 | |||||||||||||
| Stream |  Spotify |
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| Everything Will Be Alright in the End track listing | ||||||||||||||
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"Return to Ithaka" (previously titled "Resurgam Fidei" and "Resurrection") is the thirteenth and final track on Everything Will Be Alright in the End. It is the final song in the three-part suite, "The Futurescope Trilogy", that concludes the album.
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Overview
"Return to Ithaka", like "The Waste Land", is an instrumental. In December of 2017, an early version of EWBAITE leaked online, wherein "Ithaka" was titled "Resurrection".
Of the three thematic song groupings featured on EWBAITE, "Ithaka" is categorized under the group "Belladonna", consisting of songs written about Cuomo's relationships with women. Though the song has no lyrics, the section for "Return to Ithaka" in the album's liner notes feature a passage of ancient Greek from Book 22 of Homer's Odyssey[1]:
ὦ κύνες, οὔ μ' ἔτ' ἐφάσκεθ' ὑπότροπον οἴκαδ' ἱκέσθαι
δήμου ἄπο Τρώων, ὅτι μοι κατεκείρετε οἶκον,
δμῳῇσίν τε γυναιξὶ παρευνάζεσθε βιαίως,
αὐτοῦ τε ζώοντος ὑπεμνάασθε γυναῖκα,
οὔτε θεοὺς δείσαντες, οἳ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσιν,
οὔτε τιν' ἀνθρώπων νέμεσιν κατόπισθεν ἔσεσθαι:
Translated:
"You dogs! You never thought I'd come back home
from the kingdom of the Trojans, so you ravaged my house,
lay in bed by force beside my women slaves, my women,
and wooed my wife illicitly though I was alive,
fearing neither the gods who hold wide heaven
nor that there'd be any men's censure thereafter.
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – drums
- Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
- Scott Shriner – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Ric Ocasek - producer
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