Epic I

Where'd you get that melody?
 I don't know
 It came to me
 As if I'd known it all along
 You have
 It's an old song
 A song of love from long ago
 Long-time since I heard it though
 You've heard that melody before?
 Sure
 Tell me more
 Remember the tale I told you once about the Gods?
 Which ones?
 Hades and Persephone
 Remember how it used to be
 Their love that made the world go round?
 Yeah, I remember now
 But that was long ago
 Tell it again though
 King of shadows
 King of shades
 Hades was king of the Underworld
 But he fell in love with a beautiful lady
 Who walked up above in her mother's green field
 He fell in love with Persephone
 Who was gathering flowers in the light of the sun
 And he took her home to become his queen
 Where the sun never shone
 On anyone
 Go on...
 The lady loved him and the kingdom they shared
 But without her above, not one flower would grow
 So King Hades agreed that for half of each year
 She would stay with him there in his world down below
 But the other half, she could walk in the sun
 And the sun, in turn, burned twice as bright
 Which is where the seasons come from
 And with them, the cycle
 Of the seed and the sickle
 And the lives of the people
 And the birds in their flight
 Singing...
 La la la la la la la...
 Down below and up above
 La la la la la la la...
 In harmony and rhythm
 La la la la la la la...
 The Gods sang his song of love
 La la la la la la la...
 And the world sang it with them
 But that was long ago
 Before we were on this road