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CAST:
Patrick Page as HADES
Amber Gray as PERSEPHONE
Reeve Carney as ORPHEUS
Eva Noblezada as EURYDICE
André De Shields as HERMES
Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzales-Nacer and Kay Trinidad as THE FATES


LYRICS:

WORKERS
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head

PERSEPHONE:
In the coldest time of year
Why is it so hot down here?
Hotter than a crucible
It ain't right and it ain't natural

HADES:
Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I built a foundry
In the ground beneath your feet
Here, I fashioned things of steel
Oil drums and automobiles
Then I kept that furnace fed
With the fossils of the dead
Lover, when you feel that fire
Think of it as my desire
Think of it as my desire for you

ORPHEUS:
La la la la la la la la la...

WORKERS and ORPHEUS:
Low, keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la…)
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
Keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
If you wanna keep your head

EURYIDICE:
Is it finished?

HERMES:
Not yet.

EURYDICE
Is he always like this?

Looking high and looking low
For the food and firewood I know
We need to find and I am
Keeping one eye on the sky and
Tryin' to trust that the song he's working on is gonna
Shelter us
From the wind, the wind, the wind

PERSEPHONE:
In the darkest time of year
Why is it so bright down here?
Brighter than a carnival
It ain't right and it ain't natural

HADES:
Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I laid a power grid
In the ground on which you stood
And wasn't it electrifying
When I made the neon shine!
Silver screen, cathode ray
Brighter than the light of day
Lover, when you see that glare
Think of it as my despair
Think of it as my despair for you

ORPHEUS:
They can't find the tune

HERMES:
Orpheus!

ORPHEUS:
They can't feel the rhythm

HERMES:
Orpheus!

ORPHEUS:
King Hades is deafened by a river of stone

HERMES:
Poor boy working on a song

ORPHEUS:
And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
Livin' in an oblivion

HERMES:
He did not see the storm coming on

ORPHEUS:
His black gold flows
In the world down below
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

HERMES:
Look up!

WORKERS:
Keep your head low

ORPHEUS:
And that is the reason we're on this road
And the seasons are wrong
And the wind is so strong
That's why times are so hard
It's because of the gods
The gods have forgotten the song of their love

Singing la la la la la la…

WORKERS and ORPHEUS:
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la...)
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la...)
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la)

EURYDICE:
Lookin' low and lookin' high

THE FATES:
There is no food left to find
It's hard enough to feed yourself
Let alone somebody else

EURYDICE:
I'm trying to believe
That the song he's working on
Is gonna harbor me from

EURYDICE and THE FATES:
The wind, the wind, the wind

HERMES:
Eurydice was a hungry young girl

EURYDICE:
Give that back!

HERMES:
She was no stranger to the wind

EURYDICE:
It's everything we have!

HERMES:
But she had not seen nothing

EURYDICE:
Orpheus!

HERMES:
Like the mighty storm she got caught in

EURYDICE:
Orpheus!
Shelter us!

HERMES:
Only took a minute

EURYDICE:
Harbor me!

HERMES:
But the wrath of the gods was in it

PERSEPHONE:
Every year, it's getting worse
Hadestown, hell on Earth!
Did you think I'd be impressed
With this neon necropolis?
Lover, what have you become?
Coal cars and oil drums
Warehouse walls and factory floors
I don't know you anymore
And in the meantime up above
The harvest dies and people starve
Oceans rise and overflow
It ain't right and it ain't natural

HADES:
Lover, everything I do
I do it for the love of you
If you don't even want my love
I'll give it to someone who does
Someone grateful for her fate
Someone who appreciates
The comforts of a gilded cage
And doesn't try to fly away
The moment Mother Nature calls
Someone who could love these walls
That hold her close and keep her safe
And think of them as my embrace

ORPHEUS and WORKERS:
Singing la la la la la la la...
(Low, keep your head, keep your head low)

EURYDICE:
Shelter us

HADES:
Think of them as my embrace

ORPHEUS and WORKERS:
La la la la la la la...
(Low, keep your head, keep your head)

EURYDICE:
Harbor me

HADES:
Think of them as my embrace of you