so I was late to the realization that Wedding Song and the Persephone and Hades exchange in Chant are the same goddamn song but my god now that I'm here I'm having some feelings about it.
The call and response mirroring, Persephone and Eurydice speaking their needs (times being as they are, hard and getting harder all the time / it isn't right, it ain't natural), that symmetry is JUICY but then Hades and Orpheus! both answering in metaphor, both failing in different-but-same ways. The way Orpheus points to the world as it could be and Hades to the world as it is but NEITHER of them ultimately listen to what their loves need, neither of them can hear what's right in front of them. Orpheus answers Eurydice with hope (but you can't eat hope, she needs pragmatism and stability); Hades answers Persephone with pragmatism and stability when what she needs is hope.
and then the way Chant feels structurally like a degradation of Wedding Song, something that has broken down over the years and worn itself into the same tired bitter track uuugh Anaïs Mitchell when I catch you








