A white woman, often in a white dress and with black hair, appears in a number of similarly Dionysiac scenes on 4th century BC bell-kraters, especially by the Restored, Telos and Black Thyrsos Painters. Where provenanced the pots are from funerary contexts. The imagery is almost identical, for example, on a krater from the Restored Painter from Villaricos in Spain, with the woman in white flanked by two kneeling satyrs and two dancing women. On another, from Toya (Tugia) also in Spain, the woman in white sits holding a phiale and a thyrsus, as a satyr and a woman stand on each side, either in attendance or watching her, while a second satyr and woman dance ecstatically to either side. And on a krater, now in Taranto, the woman in white again beats a tympanon, as a small white, winged male figure in front of her plays the aulos, with a satyr and female dancing ecstatically to the left, and a seated woman and a satyr watching from the right. (Michael Turner, The Woman in White: Dionysos and the dance of death)
LYRICS
Welcome to the end of eras
Ice has melted back to life
Done my time and served my sentence
Dress me up and watch me die
If it feels good, tastes good
It must be mine
Dynasty decapitated
You just might see a ghost tonight
And if you don’t know now you know…
I’m taking back the crown
I’m all dressed up and naked
I see what’s mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh yeah
The crown…
So close I can taste it
I see what’s mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh yeah
Sycophants on velvet sofas
Lavish mansions, vintage wine
I am so much more than Royal
Snatch your chain and mace your eyes
If it feels good, tastes good
It must be mine
Heroes always get remembered
But you know legends never die
Mortal kings are ruling castles
Welcome to my world of fun
Liars settle into sockets
Flip the switch and watch them run
