HADESTOWN SENTENCE STARTERS - PT I
taken from the broadway cast album. feel free to change pronouns, etc.
‘ don’t ask where. ’
‘ it was the road to hell. ’
‘ it was hard times.’
‘ it was a world of gods and men. ’
‘ it’s an old song. ’
‘ it’s an old tale from way back when. ’
‘ they’re always singing in the back of your mind. ’
‘ someone’s got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well. ’
‘ maybe it‘ll turn out this time. ’
‘ it’s a tragedy. ’
‘ come on in from the cold. ’
‘ it’s a love song. ’
‘ it’s a tale of a love from long ago. ’
‘ i was a hungry young girl. a runaway from everywhere i’d ever been. ’
‘ you’re no stranger to the world. no stranger to the wind. ’
‘ the weather ain’t the way it was before. ’
‘ ain’t no spring or fall at all anymore. it’s either blazing hot, or freezing cold. ’
‘ there ain’t a thing that you can do when the weather takes a turn on you. ’
‘ do you hear that sound? ’
‘ ain’t nobody gonna stick around. ’
‘ got a match? ’
‘ people turn on you just like the wind. everybody is a fair-weather friend. ’
‘ when you’re hungry & there ain’t enough to go around, ain’t no length to which a girl won’t go. ’
‘ you know how those muses are. sometimes they abandon you. ’
‘ you have a way with words. ’
‘ you sing just like a bird up on a line. ’
‘ come home with me. ’
‘ who are you? ’
‘ i’m the man who’s gonna marry you. ’
‘ your name is like a melody. ’
‘ i’ve met too many men like you. ’
‘ i’m not like that. ’
‘ i’m working on a song. it isn’t finished yet, but when it’s done, and when i sing it, spring will come again. ’
‘ a song so beautiful it brings the world back into tune, back into time. ’
‘ all the flowers will bloom when you become my wife. ’
‘ lover, tell me, if you can, who’s gonna buy the wedding bands? times being what they are, hard and getting harder all the time. ’
‘ when i sing my song, all the rivers’ll sing along. ’
‘ who’s gonna lay the wedding table? ’
‘ you wanna take me home? ’
‘ where’d you get that melody? ’
‘ it came to me as if i’d known it all along. ’
‘ remember how it used to be? ’
‘ but i fell in love with a beautiful lady. ’
‘ i love you, and the kingdom we shared. ’
‘ but without me above, not one flower would grow. ’
‘ you’re never early, always late. ’
‘ well, it’s like you said, i’m an outdoor girl. ’
‘ are you wondering where i’ve been? i’ve been to hell and back again. ’
‘ if you ain’t six feet underground, you’re living it up on top. ’
‘ you take what you can get, and you make the most of it. ’
‘ to the world we dream about, and the one we live in now. ’
‘ you make me see how the world could be in spite of the way that it is. ’
‘ when i fell, i fell in spite of myself. ’
‘ i was alone so long, i didn’t even know that i was lonely. ’
‘ i didn’t even know that i was cold. ’
‘ this is how it’s always been. ’
‘ all i’ve ever known is how to hold my own. ’
‘ all i’ve ever known is how to hold my own, but now i want to hold you too. ’
‘ you take me in your arms, and suddenly there’s sunlight all around me. ’
‘ everything’s bright, and warm, and shining like it never did before. ’
‘ for a moment, i forgot just how dark and cold it gets. ’
‘ i don’t ever want to have to let you go. ’
‘ i don’t want to go back to the lonely life. ’
‘ i don’t know how, or why, or who am i, that i should get to hold you? ’
‘ when i saw you all alone against the sky, it was like i’d known you all along. ’
‘ i knew you before we met, and i don’t even know you yet. ’
‘ all i know is that you’re someone that i’ve always known. ’
‘ i’m holding the world in my arms. ’
‘ say that you’ll hold me forever. say that the wind won’t change on us. say that we’ll stay with each other, and it’ll always be like this. ’
‘ i’m gonna hold you forever. the wind won’t change on us. long as we stay with each other, then it will always be like this. ’
‘ better go and get your suitcase packed. ’
‘ guess it’s time to go. ’
‘ did you ever wonder what it’s like on the underside? ’
‘ everybody’s trying to get a ticket to go, but those who go? they don’t come back. ’
‘ i hear that high and lonesome sound of my husband coming for to bring me home. ’
‘ i’ll be bored to death. ’
‘ give me morphine in a tin. give me a crate of the fruit of the vine. ’
‘ you’re early. ’
‘ i missed you. ’
‘ seems like he owns everything. kinda makes you wonder how it feels. ’
‘ it’s not supposed to be like this. ’
‘ this is how it is. ’
‘ where are you going? ’
‘ the wind is changing. there’s a storm coming on. ’
‘ we need food. ’
‘ do you hear me? ’
‘ my loneliness moves in me, cruel and black. ’
‘ jealousy fuels me, and feeds me, and fills me, with doubt that you’ll never come—dread that you’ll never come—doubt that my lover will ever come back. ’
‘ with a million hands, he builds a wall. ’
‘ you gotta keep your head low. ’
‘ why is it so hot? ’
‘ it ain’t right, and it ain’t natural. ’
‘ you were gone so long. ’
‘ lover, i was lonesome. ’
‘ when you feel that fire, think of it as my desire. ’
‘ is it finished? ’
‘ i’m trying to trust that the song you’re working on is gonna shelter us. ’
‘ i’ll sing a song of a love gone wrong. ’
‘ look up! ’
‘ it’s hard enough to feed yourself, let alone somebody else. ’
‘ give that back! ’
‘ the wrath of the gods was in it. ’
‘ every year, it’s getting worse. ’
‘ did you think i’d be impressed? ’
‘ lover, what have you become? ’
‘ i don’t know you anymore. ’
‘ lover, everything i do, i do it for the love of you. ’
‘ if you don’t even want my love, i’ll give it to someone who does. ’
‘ i’ll give my love to someone who appreciates the comforts of a gilded cage. ’
‘ i’ll give my love to someone who could love these walls that hold her close and keep her safe, and think of them as my embrace. ’
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