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[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 La-la, la-la La-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la la-la La-la-la la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la La la la-la-la-la [WORKERS, ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, spoken, HERMES, spoken] Low, keep your head, keep your head low (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) Is it finished? Oh, you gotta keep your head low If you wanna keep your head (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) Not yet Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) Keep your head, keep your head low Is he always like this? Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La-la-la-la-la-la) If you wanna keep your head [EURYDICE, FATES] Lookin' high and lookin' 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 (Ooh) That the song he's working on (Ooh) Is gonna shelter us (Ooh) From the wind, the wind, the wind (A-ooh) (A-ooh. Huh) [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, spoken] Orpheus! [ORPHEUS] They can't feel the rhythm [HERMES, spoken] Orpheus! [ORPHEUS] King Hades is deafened by a river of stone [HERMES, spoken] Poor boy working on a song [ORPHEUS] And Lady Persephone's blinded By a river of wine Livin' in an oblivion [HERMES, spoken] He did not see the storm coming on [ORPHEUS, FATES] His black gold flows (Ooh) In the world down below (Ooh) And her dark clouds roll in the one up above [HERMES, spoken] Look up! [COMPANY] 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-la [COMPANY, 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 [FATE] There is no food left to find [FATE] It's hard enough to feed yourself [FATE] Let alone somebody else [EURYDICE] I'm trying to believe That the song he's working on Is gonna harbor me from [EURYDICE & FATES] The wind, the wind, the wind [HERMES, spoken] Eurydice was a hungry young girl [EURYDICE, spoken] Give that back! [HERMES, spoken] She was no stranger to the wind [EURYDICE, spoken] It's everything we have! [HERMES, spoken] But she had not seen nothing [EURYDICE] Orpheus! [HERMES, spoken] Like the mighty storm she got caught in [EURYDICE, spoken] Orpheus! [EURYDICE] Shelter us! [HERMES, spoken] Only took a minute [EURYDICE] Harbor me! [HERMES, spoken] 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, COMPANY] Singing la-la-la-la-la-la-la (Low, keep your head, keep your head) [EURYDICE] Shelter us [HADES] Think of them as my embrace [ORPHEUS, COMPANY] 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