Chant

[00:09.62] Low, keep your head, keep your head low
[00:13.52] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[00:16.03] If you wanna keep your head
[00:18.02] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[00:21.22] Keep your head, keep your head low
[00:23.68] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[00:26.30] If you wanna keep your head
[00:28.21] Oh, you gotta keep your head
[00:30.77] In the coldest time of year
[00:33.29] Why is it so hot down here?
[00:35.83] Hotter than a crucible
[00:38.44] It ain't right and it ain't natural
[00:41.01] Lover, you were gone so long
[00:43.55] Lover, I was lonesome
[00:46.08] So I built a foundry
[00:48.67] In the ground beneath your feet
[00:51.20] Here, I fashioned things of steel
[00:53.83] Oil drums and automobiles
[00:56.32] Then I kept that furnace fed
[00:58.88] With the fossils of the dead
[01:01.41] Lover, when you feel that fire
[01:03.95] Think of it as my desire
[01:06.51] Think of it as my desire for you!
[01:09.69] La la la la
[01:12.21] La la la la la
[01:14.21] La la la la
[01:16.77] La la la la la la la la la la la
[01:26.96] La la la la la la
[01:29.57] La la
[01:32.00] La la la la la la
[01:34.68] La la la la la la
[01:37.17] La la la la la la
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[01:42.92] Is it finished?
[01:45.42]
[01:48.02] Not yet
[01:49.93]
[01:52.43] Is he always like this?
[01:55.05]
[01:57.55] Looking high and looking low
[02:00.08] For the food and firewood I know we need to find
[02:04.31] And I am keeping one eye in the sky
[02:07.35] And try to trust that the song he's working on (Ooh)
[02:11.86] Is gonna shelter us
[02:14.88] From the wind, the wind, the wind
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[02:26.98] In the darkest time of year
[02:29.51] Why is it so bright down here?
[02:32.01] Brighter than a carnival
[02:34.59] It ain't right and it ain't natural
[02:37.13] Lover, you were gone so long
[02:39.74] Lover, I was lonesome
[02:42.27] So I laid a power grid
[02:44.87] In the ground on which you stood
[02:47.53] And wasn't it electrifying
[02:49.95] When I made the neon shine!
[02:52.54] Silver screen, cathode ray
[02:55.05] Brighter than the light of day
[02:57.58] Lover, when you see that glare
[03:00.14] Think of it as my despair
[03:02.75] Think of it as my despair for you!
[03:05.91] I can't find the tune
[03:07.11] Orpheus!
[03:08.23] I can't feel the rhythm
[03:09.79] Orpheus!
[03:10.55] King Hades is deafened by a river of stone
[03:14.11] Poor boy working on a song
[03:16.32] And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
[03:21.23] Living in an oblivion
[03:23.78] He did not see the storm coming on
[03:26.06] His black gold flows
[03:28.25] In the world down below
[03:30.72] And her dark clouds roll in the one up above
[03:34.39] Look up! (Keep your head low)
[03:36.56] And that is the reason we're on this road
[03:41.02] And the seasons are wrong
[03:43.53] And the wind is so strong
[03:46.02] That's why times are so hard
[03:48.57] It's because of the gods
[03:51.87] The gods have forgotten the song of their love
[03:55.72] Singing la la la la la la...
[03:59.50] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[04:02.09] If you wanna keep your head
[04:03.99] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[04:07.15] Keep your head, keep your head low
[04:09.66] Oh, you gotta keep your head low
[04:12.28] If you wanna keep your head-
[04:14.11] Lookin' low and lookin' high
[04:16.71] There is no food left to find
[04:19.23] It's hard enough to feed yourself
[04:21.83] Let alone somebody else
[04:23.98] I'm trying to believe
[04:26.26] That the song he's working on
[04:28.44] Is gonna harbor me from
[04:31.79] The wind, the wind, the wind
[04:33.40] Eurydice was a hungry young girl
[04:36.44] Give that back!
[04:37.79] She was no stranger to the wind
[04:40.91] It's everything we have!
[04:42.83] But she had not seen nothing
[04:45.51] Orpheus!
[04:48.07] Like the mighty storm she got caught in
[04:51.82] Orpheus!
[04:53.72] Shelter us! (Only took a minute)
[04:58.79] Harbor me! (But the wrath of the gods was in it!)
[05:02.64] Every year, it's getting worse
[05:05.25] Hadestown, hell on Earth!
[05:07.81] Did you think I'd be impressed
[05:10.29] With this neon necropolis?
[05:12.85] Lover, what have you become
[05:15.46] Coal cars and oil drums
[05:18.04] Warehouse walls and factory floors
[05:20.56] I don't know you anymore
[05:24.36] And in the meantime up above
[05:26.87] The harvest dies and people starve
[05:29.49] Oceans rise and overflow
[05:33.32] It ain't right and it ain't natural
[05:35.88] Lover, everything I do
[05:38.49] I do it for the love of you
[05:40.97] If you don't even want my love
[05:43.08] I'll give it to someone who does
[05:46.08] Someone grateful for her fate
[05:48.61] Someone who appreciates
[05:51.20] The comforts of a gilded cage
[05:53.76] And doesn't try to fly away
[05:56.24] The moment Mother Nature calls
[05:58.76] Someone who could love these walls
[06:01.41] That hold her close and keep her safe
[06:03.93] And think of them as my embrace
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[06:09.13] Shelter us
[06:11.61] Think of them as my embrace
[06:14.19]
[06:16.77] Harbor me
[06:19.33] Think of them as my embrace
[06:24.21] Of you
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