— lyric starters : hadestown , partial broadway cast recording.
on the road to hell, there was a lot of waiting.
she’s never early, always late.
these days she never stays too long.
are you wondering where i’ve been?
when you’re down, you’re down. when you’re up, you’re up. if you ain’t six feet underground, you’re living it up on top.
who’s doing the best she can? [name], that’s who.
you take what you can get, and you make the most of it.
if no one takes too much, there will always be enough.
to the world we dream about & the one we live in now.
better go and get your suitcase packed, guess it’s time to go.
did you ever wonder what it’s like on the underside?
give me morphine in a tin. give me a crate of the fruit of the vine.
takes a lot of medicine to make it through the wintertime.
an eye for an eye, and he weighs the cost. a lie for a lie, and your soul for sale.
you better forget about your wishing well.
kind of makes you wonder how it feels.
hey little songbird, give me a song.
i want a nice, soft place to land. i wanna lie down forever.
the choice is yours if you’re willing to choose, seeing as you’ve got nothing to lose, and i could use a canary.
suddenly, nothing is as it was.
wasn’t it gonna be the two of us? weren’t we birds of a feather?
look all around you. see how the vipers and vultures surround you.
life ain’t easy. life ain’t fair. a girl’s gotta fight for her rightful share.
aim for the heart. shoot to kill. if you don’t do it then the other one will.
the first shall be first and the last shall be last.
cast your eyes to heaven, you get a knife in the back.
nobody’s righteous, nobody’s proud, nobody’s innocent.
my heart is yours. always was and will be.
wouldn’t you have done the same? in her shoes, in her skin?
you can have your principles when you’ve got a belly full.
there ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t no map.
keep on walking and you don’t look back.
wait for me, i’m coming. wait, i’m coming with you.
who are you? where do you think you’re going?
who are you to think that you can walk a road that no one ever walked before?
don’t give your name, you don’t have one.
i am not alone. i hear the rocks and stone echoing my song.
i don’t know about you, boys, but if you’re like me, then hanging around this old manhole is bringing you down.
you’re stir crazy! stuck in a rut!
i got the rain on tap at the bar. i got sunshine up on a shelf.
come here, brother, let me guess: it’s the little things you miss.
when was the last time you saw the sky?
you want stars? i’ve got a skyful.
tell my husband to take his time.
what i wanted was to fall asleep. close my eyes and disappear, like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air.
dreams are sweet until they’re not.
flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart.
is anybody listening? i open my mouth and nothing comes out.
you, the one i left behind, if you ever walk this way: come and find me lying in the bed i made.
how about you and i? are we gonna try again?
who are you to lead them?
you got a lonesome road to walk.
between your ears, behind your eyes: that is the path to paradise, and likewise, the road to ruin.
it’s an old song. it’s an old tale from way back when.
that is how it ends. that’s how it goes.
it’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy.
here’s the thing: to know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again as if it might turn out this time.
can you feel it like a train? is it coming? is it coming this way?
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