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things in hadestown that make me emotional

  • it’s a love song. it’s a tale of a love that never dies, it’s a love song about someone who tries
  • let the world we dream about be the one we live in now
  • wait for me, I’m coming too, I’m coming too
  • kind of makes you wonder how it feels
  • i’ll sing a song of a love gone wrong
  • promises you made to me, you said the rivers and the trees would fill our pockets and our plates
  • orpheus, the undersigned shall not turn to look behind. she’s out of sight, and he’s out of his mind
  • she went behind those doors and signed her life away 
  • wherever she is, is where i’ll go
  • but all alone his blood runs thin, and doubt comes… doubt comes in
  • there was a railroad line on the road to hell, there was a young man down on bended knee 
  • I have no ring for your finger, I have no banquet table laid, I have no bed of feathers. whatever promises I’ve made
  • orpheus, all the pretty songs you sing ain’t gonna shelter us from the wind, the wind, the wind
  • every coward seems courageous in the safety of the crowd
  • then hades told eurydice: there are papers to be signed. step into my office
  • orpheus, you’re shivering. is it cold or fear? just keep singing, the coldest night, of the coldest year, comes right before the spring
  • make me laugh, make me weep, make the king feel young again. sing! for an old man
  • see, orpheus was a poor boy but he had a gift to give: he could make you see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is
  • and hades laid his hands on you and gave you everlasting life!
  • she called your name before she went, but I guess you weren’t listening
  • where are you now, orpheus? 
  • men are fools, men are frail, give them the rope and they’ll hang themselves
  • doubt comes in and all falls silent, it’s as though you aren’t there 
  • king of diamonds, king of spades, hades was king of a kingdom of dirt 
  • young man, you can strum your lyre, I have strung the world in wire 
  • now everybody knows the walls have ears, and the walls had heard what the boy was saying, a million tons of stone and steel echoed his refrain
  • i’m gonna hold you forever, the wind will never change on us, as long as we stay with each other, then it will always be like this 
  • to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again as if it might turn out this time, I learned that from a friend of mine
  • [gasp]
  • on a sunny day there was a railroad car, and a lady stepping off a train. everybody looked and everybody saw that spring had come again
  • “you’re early!” “i missed you.”
  • is it true? is it true, what he said?
  • you see, they kept their heads down low, you couldn’t quite see their faces right, oh but you could hear them singing
  • with his kiss, the riot starts
  • orpheus, my heart is yours
  • where is the treasure inside your chest?
  • “it’s almost spring. we’ll try again next fall” “wait for me?” “I will” 
  • with a love song, with a tale of a love that never dies. with a love song, for anyone who tries
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