Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)

[Fates]

The deal is signed?

[Eurydice]

Yes

[Fates]

About time

Get on the line

[Eurydice]

I did what I had to do

[Fates]

That's what they did too

[Hermes]

Now in Hadestown there were a lot of souls

[Company]

Low, keep your head, keep your head

[Hermes]

Working on the wall with all their might

[Company]

Oh, you gotta keep your head

[Hermes]

You see, they kept their heads down low

[Company]

If you wanna keep your head

[Hermes]

You couldn't quite see their faces right

But you could hear them singing

[Company]

Low, keep your head, keep your head

[Hermes]

Swinging their hammers in the cold, hard ground

You can hear the sound of the pickaxe ringin'

[Company]

If you wanna keep your head

[Hermes]

And they called it-

[Company]

Freedom

[Eurydice]

I’m Eurydice

Doesn't anybody hear me?

[Fates]

They can hear

But they don't care

No one has a name down here

Mr. Hades set you free

To work yourself into the ground

Free to spend eternity

In the factory

And the warehouse

Where the whistles scream

And the foreman shouts

And you're punchin' in

And punchin' in

And punchin' in

And you can't punch out!

[Fates and workers]

And you're way down Hadestown, oh, keep your head, keep your head low

Way down Hadestown, oh, you gotta keep your head low

Way down Hadestown, if you wanna keep your head

Way down under the ground! Keep your head low

[Eurydice]

Why won't anybody look at me?

[Fates]

They can look

But they don't see

You see, it's easier that way

Your eyes will look like that someday

Down in the river of oblivion

You kissed your little life goodbye

And Hades laid his hands on you

And gave you everlasting life!

And everlasting overtime

In the mine, the mill, and the machinery

Your place on the assembly line

Replaces all your memories

[Fates and workers]

Way down Hadestown, oh, keep your head, keep your head low

Way down Hadestown, oh, you gotta keep your head low

Way down Hadestown, if you wanna keep your head

Way down under the ground! Keep your head low

[Eurydice]

What do you mean I'll look like that?

[Fates]

That's what it looks like to forget

[Eurydice]

Forget what?

[Fates]

Who you are and everything that came before

[Eurydice]

I have to go

[Fates]

Go where?

[Eurydice]

Go back!

[Fates]

Oh?

And where is that?

So what was your name again?

You've already forgot it

[Hermes]

You see, it’s like I said before

A lot can happen behind closed doors

Eurydice was a hungry young girl, but she wasn’t hungry anymore

What she was instead, was dead-

Dead to the world, anyway

You see, she went behind those doors

And signed her life away

[Fates]

Saw that wheel up in the sky

Heard the big bell tolling

A lot of souls have gotta die

To keep the Rust Belt rollin'

A lot of spirits gotta break

To make the underworld go 'round

[Fates and Company]

Way down Hadestown

Way down under the ground!