Alternative Lyrics to Well Known Songs 15 - Faithful to Thee

[Pre-amble: This is one in a series of posts which includes an alternative set of lyrics to a well known song.  Each post will also contain a short introduction to the topic at hand, and a brief explanation of the song itself.  A video of the original song will be included so that the reader can listen to the original song while reciting the alternative lyrics at the same time.]

 

The Song: Faithful to Thee (based on 'Set you Free' by N-Trance)

This time around we have a song about one of the females from the Norse Pantheon, Sigyn.  Sigyn is the wife of the Trickster Loki and her name translates as 'Faithful', because that is what she is.  She remains faithful to her husband Loki even when he is bound down in the deepest recesses of Hel(not to be confused with the Christian Hell, which itself is a perversion of one particular realm of the Indo-European afterlife), where he is being punished by the Gods for something he did.  Loki is bound in a stone chair and has a giant snake over him dripping poison onto him.  Sigyn stops the poison from falling on Loki by collecting it in a cup.  This is a true sign of faithfulness: sticking by a husband even when he is an outcast from the community, and even when he is in Hel, and she is doing an awful job (collecting poison).

 

An image by Collingwood of Loki being punished in Hel.  Sigyn lovingly stays beside him, capturing the poison that a snake continually drips on him.

 

The ability to endure, to persevere and suffer, and to keep doing her job is a sign of her strength of character.  Sigyn is not 'A fair weather friend' or 'A fair weather wife'.  She sticks by her man, her husband, to the bitter end.  That is true faithfulness.  And faithfulness is not something we here much of in the modern world, a world with high divorce rates, which is why I thought it was worth writing about.

Play the song in the music video above and sing along with the alternative lyrics below.

# Faithful to Thee #
Oh ho-uh yeah.
When I hold you Loki,
Feel your heart beat close to me.
Gonna stand by you forever.
I will be faithful to thee.
 
While I stand here right beside you,
In the deep recesses of Hel.
You must know that I will never leave you.
I will be faithful to thee.
 
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.
 
Oh ho-uh yeah.
I collect this venomous poison.
Before it drips right down on you.
'cause I can't stand to hear you hurting.
I will be faithful to thee.
 
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.
Faithful to thee.

Oh ho-uh yeah.

Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
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Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
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Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
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Faithful to thee

Oh ho-uh yeah.

Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
 
Oh ho yeah.
When I hold you Loki,
Feel your heart beat close to me.
Gonna stand by you forever.
I will be faithful to thee.
 
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.

 

Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.
Faithful to thee.
Oh ho-uh yeah.
Uh uh ho-oh yeah.

 

 

[End of lyrics.]