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Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)
Afra Hines
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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)
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