Status Updates From Working on a Song: The Lyri...

ok I'm done!!
sorry for making an update for literally almost every single line/lyric from this book but
1. It's even better with the audiobook because Anais Mitchell sings all the lyrics (even the old versions)
2. I love Hadestown

anyways I read each part about each song twice: once with Anais' singing and the other time while listening to the cast album and WOW.

the lyrics may look lame but they sound right.

We Raise Our Cups :

Company: Some flowers bloom where the green grass grows / Our praise is not for them / But the ones who bloom in the bitter snow / We raise our cups to them / We raise our cups and drink them up / We raise them high and drink them dry
To Orpheus, and all of us.

"We raise our cups to Orpheus not because he succeeds, but because he tries. And the tale begins again... "

OK NOW I'M CRYING BYE

Doubt Comes In :
la fin :')

Orpheus: Where are you now?
Eurydice: Orpheus, you’re shivering / Of cold or fear? / Just keep singing
Orpheus: Doubt comes in and my heart falters / It forgets the songs it sung / Where are you?
Eurydice: Orpheus, hold on / The darkest hour of the darkest night / Comes right before the dawn-

(Orpheus turns)

Eurydice: You’re early.
Orpheus: I missed you.

THE PARALLEL
devastating.

Wait for Me Reprise Intro :

Hermes: A poor boy and a hungry young girl / Walking single file / While the music played / Brother, they looked for all the world / Like they was walking down the aisle / On their wedding day

meanwhile orpheus is just struggling to not look back sorry that's just cruel

(and "ORPHEUS WAS A POOR BOY" ONCE AGAIN)

Epic III (2) :

Orpheus: And I know how it is because he is like me / I know how it is to be left all alone / There’s a hole in his arms where the world used to be / When Persephone is gone

Hades is king of silver and gold / But a king's as lonely as anyone else / He has all of the riches his walls can hold / And in spite of it all, he’s a poor boy himself.


"HE'S A POOR BOY HIMSELF" JUST KILL ME AT THIS POINT

Epic III (1) :
Orpheus: King of diamonds, king of spades / Hades was king of the kingdom of dirt / Miners of mines, diggers of graves / They bowed down to Hades who gave them work / And he bowed down to no one, below or above / Till the arrow of Eros struck him in the heart and / The king of the underworld fell in love.

How Long? :

Persephone: Brother Hermes, I’m a jaded woman / But there’s something in Orpheus' singing / And it feels like spring a-comin’ / To the winter of my soul / Hermes, god of speed / Put your feathers on his feet / Keep him safe and sound / He reminds me of the lover / That I was back before my heart went under / Undercover / Underground

enft même ses early versions elles slay genre I can hear the music

If It's True (5) :
(last one I promise)

Orpheus: If it’s true what they say / If there’s nothing to be done / If there’s no part to be played / If there’s no song to be sung / Take my arms that used to reach out in the dark where she lay / Take this music and the memory of the muse from which it came

Hermes: Persephone heard the poor boy sing / And it broke her heart in two


every version is the best one

If It's True (4) :
(original v1)

Orpheus: If it’s true what they say / If there’s nothing to be done / If there’s no prayer left to pray / If there’s no bridge left to burn / If it’s true what they say / I'll be on my way
//
They can take the sky away / Take the stars out of my eyes / My heart will be a stone / And I’ll throw away the past / And I’ll go away alone...

If It's True (3) :

Orpheus: The ones who deal the cards are the ones who take the tricks / With their hands over their hearts, while we play the game they fix / The ones who speak the word always say it is the last / And no answer will be heard to the question no one asks / So I’m asking if it’s true / I’m asking me and you, (x3) / I believe our answer matters / More than anything they say

you tell 'em orpheus!!

If It's True (2) :

Workers: What’s the use of his backbone? / If he never stands upright
Hermes: And they stood and listened
W: If he turns his back on everyone
H: To the poor boy sing
W: That he could have stood beside
//
Orpheus: Who are they to say what the truth is anyway? / Cause the ones who tell the lies / Are the solemnest to swear / And the ones who load the dice / Always say the toss is fair

If It's True :
(my fav one so imma spam)

Hermes: And the boy turned to go / Cause he thought no one could hear / But everybody knows that walls have ears / And the workers heard him
W: If it's true what they say
H: with their hammer swingin'...
W: What's the purpose of a man?
H: and they quit their workin'...
W: Just to turn his eyes away
H: when they heard him sing
W: Just to throw up both his hands?

Nothing Changes :

Fates: Why the struggle, why the strain?
Why make trouble, why make scenes?
Why go against the grain?
Why swim upstream?
It ain’t (x3) no use
You’re bound (x3) to lose
What’s done (x3) is done
That’s the way the river runs

So why get wet? Why break a sweat?
Why waste your precious breath?
Why scar your handsome brow?
Nothing changes
Nothing changes
Nothing changes
Anyhow.

rip orpheus

Come Home with Me (Reprise)

Orpheus: Whatever happened, I’m to blame. Eurydice: No!
Orpheus: You called my name.
Eurydice: You came!
Orpheus: Now will you come home with me?
Eurydice: Are you always this confident?
Orpheus: When I look at you, I am
Eurydice: When you look at me, what do you see?
Orpheus: I see someone stronger than me / I see somebody who survives / I see my wife.

enft stop
cut the cameras

No One Now

FATES: Maybe Eurydice was someone then / Back when Hades drew her in / Like a moth into his flame / Borne aloft on burning wings / Well, she ain’t the first and she ain’t the last / Hades' fire is hot and fast / Brother, don’t you think we all / used to have a name to call? / A tale to tell as well as her? / Just ask the woman Hades truly loves / Maybe she was someone once / But she ain’t no one now

I understand I’m currently reading two other books but this just arrived in the mail and I MUST read it RIGHT NOW!!!