El Mariachi Muerte casts a lonely figure. Leaving the dusty old bar behind him, he walks a lonely road. He’s been drinking, but it hasn’t managed to ease his heartache.
♫ I’ve gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over … ♫
I have betrayed everybody.
Lied to those I care about and ruined their trust. Everywhere I go, people turn me away. They tell me they do not trust me.
I brought that on myself.
But none hurts more than the pain of betraying you, mi amore.
Everyone I ever loved is either dead or suffering because of me. You think I cannot be trusted…
Are you right?
♫ And this mountain, I must climb
Feels like the world upon my shoulders …♫
To earn back your trust, mi amore. That will be my mountain, my greatest ballad.
One does not climb a mountain without stumbling. The true test of character is not whether you fall, but whether you get back up.
I’ve been knocked down, and I have taken you with me, Gemini.
I was a fool to trust Zeus. To align myself with Hydra when deep down I knew their truth. I was always just another note on their manuscript.
Now, with the world upon my shoulders, I know what must be done. For honour, to protect you… To protect us.
I must make them all pay.
Zeus be damned.
♫ In my life, there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again … ♫
I’m going to make up for it, for everything.
I failed you, mi amore. I thought I could find safety in the sanctuary of Zeus and Hera.
But they do not know love. All they know is power, and the constant thirst in attaining it.
I thought that was what I wanted. But this feeling, the heartache, it is not worth all of the fame and fortune in Arcadia.
The more I have seen their hatred, the more I realise I have never truly known what love was… until I threw it away.
♫ I wanna know what love is.
I want you to show me. ♫
Zeus expects that those who ally themselves with him will follow his orders, or be stabbed in the back.
That is not love.
Tombstone, Gravedigger, Calypso… As long as you serve a purpose, Hera will keep you close.
But that is not love. That is not honour, friendship or faithfulness.
As soon as your usefulness ends, Zeus will mark you as he did me.
You will be next.
But they will never silence the song of my heart. I have something that Hera, Zeus, Tombstone and anybody else who stands beside them will never understand.
I have a heart filled with love.
I have something to prove, not just orders to follow.
I wanna prove what love is, Gemini. Love means standing by each other through the good times and hard times.
Mi amore, I want you to show me.
I want you to show THEM.
I want us to show Zeus.
That love… always… is the song that must be played louder than all.