[Lyric Note]

Scene IV

The Netherworld / hospital room

As the dust settles, Cassius and Pollock appear tattered and bloodied, floating in a grey nothingness

[Narrator]

Soon as you were born, you were aborted

Cast away

Child of moral doctrine and rape—

Lord knows, the monsters that marriage makes

Lost wolves void of direction

Head south, thrown in corrections

They gave you no name, gave you no name

They gave you no name

[Lyric Note]

The mysterious ether dissolves, and Cassius and Pollock slowly vanish. We see an old man, in the twins' image, rolled in on a gurney. The setting is now a modern day hospital room

[Narrator]

A lifetime of brawling with demons

Makes a fallen man

Even on his deathbed he's beaten

Pinned by his fiendish inner twin

Such turmoil in your head

Will it never let you rest?

[Lyric Note]

Young Cassius enters, and walks over to bedside

[Narrator]

Blank cake, a blank birth certificate

Blank boy made a decision

They gave you no name, gave you no name

So, you'll give yourself a name:

[Young Cassius]

I am Gemini

[Narrator]

A twin star burst into being

[Young Cassius]

I am Gemini

[Narrator]

Splattered on the orphanage ceiling

The other children ran off in terror

On your dying day, does absolution even work?

On this, your dying day, do you curse the universe...

Do you wish you never were?

[Lyric Note]

The man dies. Young Cassius disappears. A loud crack of thunder rumbles as the hospital scene, now divided by a large fissure across the floor, splits into two halves spiraling backwards into an abyss

[Narrator]

Lost twin screaming in the attic

No remedy, no respite

You gave him no name, you gave him no name

So, he gave himself a name

[Lyric Note]

—curtain descends, slowly