The Tree On The Hill

[Percy]

Who's Thalia?

[Grover]

You're not the first half-blood I was sent to protect

I should've told you, but I-I thought that if I did

You'd never want me on this quest

If you knew what a failure I am

Ask Annabeth, she knows

[Grover]

There's a tree on the Hill

Up on Half-Blood Hill

That watches over us

Silent and still

And no one at camp is safe until

We can see the tree on the Hill

[Grover]

This was way before I met you

Quiron sent me to escort three half-bloods back to camp

Two were runaways

One was Annabeth

The other was Luke

The third was Thalia

Tough girl, like her dad, Zeus

[Percy]

I-I thought I was the only kid of the Big Three gods

[Grover]

You are now

We'd only made it back to camp, but

I got nervous, we got lost and

By the time we found the hill

Something else found us

[Grover]

And there on the Hill

Up on Half-Blood Hill

A cold wind blew

Dark and chill

For nothing would slake its wrathful will

We had to make a stand

And maybe if I'd been a little bit braver

Maybe if I stayed behind to fight

But "maybe" doesn't let me go back and save her

Maybe doesn't make it alright

[Grover]

Thalia saved us

We only survived because she stayed to hold off the monsters

She paid for her sacrifice with her life

That's when Zeus showed up

[Percy]

He saved her, right?

[Grover]

It was too late for that

As she died

He turned her into a tree

So she could stand protecting us, forever

The way I couldn't do for her

[Grover]

There's a tree on the Hill

Up on Half-Blood Hill

That protects us all

And always will

And it's there reminding me

Of all I failed to be

The tree on the Hill