Way Down Hadestown André De Shields, Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez‐Nacer, Kay Trinidad, Eva Noblezada, Kimberly Marable, Timothy Hughes, Hadestown Original Broadway Company, Malcolm Armwood, Jessie Shelton, John Krause, Ahmad Simmons, Afra Hines, Khaila Wilcoxon & T. Oliver Reid
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The deal is signed? Yes About time Get on the line I did what I had to do That's what they did too Now in Hadestown, there were a lot of souls (Oh, keep your head, keep your head) Working on the wall with all their might (Oh, you gotta keep your head) See they kept their heads down low (If you wanna keep your head) Couldn't quite see their faces, right? But you could hear them singing (Oh keep your head, keep your head) Swinging their hammer to the cold hard ground You can hear the sound of the pickaxe ringing (If you want to keep your head) And they called it freedom (Freedom) I'm Euridice Doesn't anybody hear me? They can hear But they don't care No one has a name down here Mister Hades set you free To work yourself into the ground Free to spend eternity In the factory, and the warehouse Where the whistle screams And the foremen shout And your punching in, and punching in And punching in and you can't punch out And you're Way down Hadestown And way down Hadestown And way down Hadestown Way down under the ground Why won't anybody look at me? They can look But they don't see You see, life's easier that way Your eyes will look like that someday Down in the river of oblivion You kissed your little life goodbye And Hades laid his hands on you And gave you everlasting life And everlasting overtime In the mine In the mill And the machinery Your place on the assembly line Replaces all your memories Way down Hadestown And way down Hadestown And way down Hadestown Way down under the ground What do you mean I'll look like that? That's what it looks like to forget Forget what? Who you are And everything that came before I have to go Go where? Go back! Oh, and where is that? So what was your name again? You've already forgotten? You see, it's like I said before A lot can happen behind closed doors Eurydice was a hungry young girl But she wasn't hungry anymore What she was instead wasn't dead Dead to the world anyway You see, she went behind those doors And signed her life away Oh Saw that wheel up in the sky Heard the big bell tolling A lot of souls have gotta die To keep the rust belt rolling A lot of spirits gotta break To make the underworld go round Way down Hadestown Way down under the ground (Way down under the ground)