Hadestown Songbird

On 10/17/19 I saw how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.

[waitformereprise]

How to get to Hadestown, you have to take the long way down, through the underground, under cover of night, layin’ low, stayin’ out of sight. Ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t no map—just a telephone wire and a railroad track. Keep on walkin’ and don’t look back, ’til you get to the bottomland.

[perscphcnies]

anonymous requested:  everytime we see the red flower in the show

[solvnvceae]

when  i   was  a  young  girl   like   you this  whole  world  was  younger   too we    set   it   spinning   hand-in-hand m e    a n d     a     y o u n g    m a n.

             now   you  see   what   he’s   become              hades   with    his    heart   of   stone.              i    forgot    what     true     love    was              and  then   i   heard   your   orpheus.

                              take  it  from  a  woman   of  my   age.                               there  is  nothing  love  can’t  change.                               even  when  the  bricks  are  stacked,                               love  is blooming through the  cracks.  

                                                  even   when     the     light   is   gone,                                                   love    is    reaching    for    the    sun                                                   it  was   love   that   spun  the  world                                                   when   i    was     a     young    girl.

[perscphcnies]

@roadtohadestown requested:  Orpheus doing his la la la’s in “Chant I”

[hadestownsongbird]

Orpheus,

don’t come on too strong.

[hadestownsongbird]

You’re early.

I missed ya.

[hadestownsongbird]

A song so beautiful,

it brings the world back into tune,

back into time.

And all the flowers will bloom...

when you become my wife.

[perscphcnies]

winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er. hear that high and lonesome sound of my husband coming forth to bring me home to hadestown.

[hadestownsongbird]

I’ll tell you where the real road lies:

between your ears, behind your eyes.

That is the path to paradise,

likewise, the road to ruin.

[hadestownsongbird]

And Hades and Persephone

they took each other’s hands

and brother, you know what they did?

They danced.

[hadestownsongbird]

October 17, 2019

I saw how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.

[hadestownsongbird]

You, the one I left behind

if you ever walk this way,

come and find me

lying in the bed I made.

[pansexualandscared]

Don’t you hate it when the gods forget the song of their love?

[hadestownsongbird]

And I know how it was because

he was like me,

a man in love with a woman.

[hadestownsongbird]

Say that you’ll hold me forever.

Say that wind won’t change on us.

Say that we’ll stay with each other,

and it will always be like this.

[hadestownsongbird]

Why would I become his wife?

Maybe because he’ll make you feel alive.

[waitformereprise]

i’m workin’ on a song… it isn’t finished yet, but when it’s done, and when i sing it, spring will come again.