Epic I

[Hermes]

Where'd you get that melody?

[Orpheus]

I don’t know

It came to me

As if I'd known it all along

[Hermes]

(Spoken)

You have

It's an old song

(Sung)

A song of love from long ago

Long time since I heard it though

[Orpheus]

You’ve heard that melody before?

[Hermes]

Sure

[Orpheus]

Tell me more

[Hermes]

Remember the tale I told you once about the Gods?

[Orpheus]

Which ones?

[Hermes]

Hades and Persephone

Remember how it used to be

Their love that made the world go 'round?

[Orpheus]

Yeah, I remember now

But that was long ago

[Hermes]

Tell it again though

[Orpheus]

King of shadows

King of shades

Hades was king of the Underworld

But he fell in love with a beautiful lady

Who walked up above in her mother's green field

He fell in love with Persephone

Who was gathering flowers in the light of the Sun

And he took her home to become his queen

Where the Sun never shone

On anyone

[Hermes]

Go on

[Orpheus]

The lady loved him and the kingdom they shared

But without her above, not one flower would grow

So King Hades agreed that for half of each year

She would stay with him there in his world down below

But the other half, she could walk in the Sun

And the Sun, in turn, burned twice as bright

Which is where the seasons come from

And with them, the cycle

Of the seed and the sickle

And the lives of the people

And the birds in their flight

[Hermes]

Singing

[Orpheus]

La, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Hermes]

Down below and up above

[ORPHEUS]

La, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Hermes]

In harmony and rhythm

[Orpheus]

La, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Hermes]

The Gods sang his song of love

[Orpheus]

La, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Hermes]

And the world sang it with them

(Sung)

But that was long ago

Before we were on this road