#chant i

[bendita9-6]

Musical Crossover 37

One time I was listening to Shovel and Bone from Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival and thought it sounded similar to Chant from Hadestown.

[starry-bite]

OKAY APPARENTLY i've been mishearing the lyrics of Chant this whole time??? I thought Orpheus was saying "as black gold flows in the world down below, enter dark clouds roll in the one up above"

but it's his black gold and her dark clouds???

[winter-wise]

Thinking about how Hades attempted to rework the Underworld to be more like the upper world in the summer (more light and heat) to please Persphone, but she didn’t like it, and her repeated criticism is that it isn’t natural.

The reason why Hades’s changes to the underworld were so repellant to her is that she’s a nature goddess. The underworld and the winter are supposed to be cold and dark. Changing it to be bright and hot goes against the natural order.

And we know that Persephone liked the way the underworld was before the changes. It’s in the lyrics that she loved ‘the kingdom they shared’. Hades didn’t need to change the underworld at all.

[roadtohadestown]

la la la, my dudes

[queerbauten]

the way Persephone looks on with horror at Eurydice near the end of "Chant I"... oof

[oncleo]

On apprend par la BNF qu’aujourd’hui 4 avril, le Comte de Lautréamont a exactement 175 ans. Chose étonnante, on a passé les dernières 36h avec lui, presque sans pause, sur un « coup de tête et un coup de dés », pour en tirer une lecture du Chant I montée sous la forme d’une petite aventure sonore.

[susiephone]

chant, a summary

[calamity-queen]

Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum

LOwwww

kEEP YOUR HEAD KEEP YOUR HEAD LOW

CH

oH yOu GOTTA KEEP yoUr hEAD LOw

cH

iF YOU WANNA KEEP YOUR HEAD

HUH CH

OH YOU GOTTA KERP YOUR HEAD lowww

keep your head keep your head looow

cH

oH you gotta keep your head looow

cH

if you wanna keep your head

hUHH cH

oH you gotta keep your head

IN THE COLDEST TIME OF YEAR, WHY IS IT SO

HOT

DOWN HERE

HOTTER THAN A CRUICABLE

IT AIN’T RIGHT, AND IT AINT

NATURAL

aH-OOOO

Lover you were gone so looong

cH

Lover I was

Lonesome

So I built a foundry in the ground beneath your feet

Here I fashion things of

Steel

Oil drums and automobiles

Then I kept that furnace fed, with the fossils of the

Dead

Lover when you feel that

Fire

Think of it as my

Desire

Think of it as my desire for you

aHh Ooo

La La

lA LA

La la la la la

La La

La La

La la la la la laaaaaa

La la lalalaaaa

La la lala la laaaala

Lala lala lala laaaa lala lala lalala lALALALA

loooowwww, keep your head keep your head low-cH

Is it finished?

oH you gotta keep your head low cH

NOT

Yet

If you wanna keep your head hUH CH

Is he always like this?

oH you gotta keep your head

LOOKIN

High

And lookin

Low

For the

Food

And

Firewood I knOWWWW

We need to find and

I am

Keeping one eye on the

Sky and I am

Tryyyyna

Trust

That the song hEs workin on

Is gonna

SHEEELLLTER USSSSSSS

From the

Wind

The wind

The wind

AH OOOOO

HUUH

CH

In the

Darkest

Time of year, why is it so

Bright

Down here?

Brighter than a

Carnival

It ain’t right, and it ain’t

NATURAL

aaaaOoo

Lover you were gone so long

cH

Lover I was

Lonesome

So I built a

Power Grid

In the ground on which you

sTood

And wasn’t it

ELECTRIFYING

When I made the

Neon shine

Silver screen

cathode ray

Brighter than the light of

Day

Lover when you see that

Glare

Think of it as my

Despair

Think of it as my deSPAIR for

You

You can’t find the

Tune

Orpheus-

You can’t

FEEL

theRhythm

ORPHEUS

king

Hades

Is deafened

By a river of stone

Poor boy workin on a song~

and

Lady Persephone’s blinded

By a ~river of wine~

Livin in an oblivion

hE did

NOT

see the

Storm

comin on

his black gold

Flows

In the world down bellow

and dark clouds Rollll

in the one ~up above~

LOOK. UP.

keep your head looooooooowwwwww

and that is the reason we’re on this road

•aND THE SEASONS ATE WRONG

•aND THE WIND IS SO STRONG

THATS WHY TIMES ARE SO HARD!

ITS BECAUSE OF THE GODS!

aaaaaAAAAAAAAHHHH

thE GODS HAVE FORGOTTEN THE SONG OF THEIR LOOVE.

boom

sINGIN LAAaaa

keep your head keep your head low

cH

ooh you gotta keep your head low

cH

keep your head keep your head low

oooH you gotta keep your head low

if you wanna keep your head

hUhh, cH

oh you gotta keep your head

Lookin

Low

And lookin

High.

There’s nO food left to find~

iTs hard enough to FEED yourself~

let alone someBODY else~

IM TRYNNNA

Believe

THAT THE ~SONG~ HES WORKIN ON IS GONNA

Haaarbor MEEE

from

The wind

The wind

The wind

Eurydice was a

Hungry young girl~

giVe thAt bAck

She was no

Stranger

To the wind

itS evEryThiNg wE hAvE!

But she had not seen

Nothin

OOOORRRPHHEUSSSSS

Like the mighty storm she was caught in

ORPHEUS

Sheellter usssss

It only took a minute

HAAAARBOOR MEEEEE

BUT THE WRATH OF THE GODS WAS IN IT!

Every year it’s getting worse,

Hadestown,

Hell on earth!

Did you think I’d be

IMPRESSED?

With this

Neon Necropolis?

Lover what have you

Become?

Coal cars and oil drums,

Warehouse walls and factory floors,

I dOnT know you anymoooore

And in the meantime up above, the harvest

Dies

And people

Starve

Oceans

Rise

And

Overflooow

...

IT AINT RIGHT, AND IT AINT NATURAL

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.

Someone

GREATFUL

For her fate.

SOMEONE

Who appreciates

The

Comforts

Of a guilded cage,

And doesn’t try to

Fly away

The moment

MOTHER NATURE

Calls, someone who can love these walls,

That hold her

Close

And keep her

Safe,

And think of them as my

Embrace...

sINGING LA

keep your head keep your head

SHELTER US

Think of them as my embrace...

LA LA LA

keep your head keep your head

HAAARBOR MEEE

Think of them as my embrace...

Of you *dum*