Two monsters Echidna and Typhoon Couldn't father nothing else but a monster And Cerber came to life A huge dog with three heads A neck bustling with snakes And teeth which, as the viper Poisoned you at each bite His mission would be to watch over Banished human flesh
He became the hellkeeper His lair on the Styx side He was the one who welcomed The shadows of the dead in hell But never let them come out
Tricephallic Hellkeeper!
The fate of the mortal ones Who attempted to get into his domain Was death, cut to shred By the inflexible gaoler
He was the hellkeeper His lair on the Styx side He was the one who welcomed The shadows of the dead in hell But never let them come... out!
But Cerber was not so invulnerable Even he, had weaknesses One was gluttony Twice wheedled with food By Psyche and Diphobe To walk through the gate of hell Orphee put him to sleep with singing
Lastly, humiliated Subdued and brought back to earth Half choked by Heracles But the earthly land was not a place for him Unequalled underworld rampart He was given back to the kingdom of the dead The kingdom of the dead
He was the hellkeeper His lair on the Styx side He was the one who welcomed The shadows of the dead in hell But never let them come out.