Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)

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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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Duration
03:50
Tempo
120 BPM

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