Hadestown Act 1 Lyric Starters
FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS/NAMES/PHRASING AS YOU SEE FIT
“Don't ask where, brother, don't ask when”
“It's an old tale from way back when”
“It's an old song and we're gonna sing it again”
“See, someone's got to tell the tale whether or not it turns out well”
“It's a sad tale, it's a tragedy”
“Now, not everyone gets to be a god, and don't forget that times are hard”
“His mama was a friend of mine”
“Girl, come on in from the cold!”
“The weather ain't the way it was before”
“Ain't no spring or fall at all anymore, It's either blazing hot or freezing cold”
“And there ain't a thing that you can do when the weather takes a turn on you”
“Do you hear that sound?”
“People turn on you just like the wind”
“In the end, you're better off alone”
“This poor boy, he wore his heart out on his sleeve, you might say he was naïve to the ways of the world”
“He had a way with words and the rhythm and the rhyme, and he sang just like a bird up on a line”
“I liked to hear him sing, and his way of seeing things”
“I took him underneath my wing, and that is where he stayed”
“Don't come on too strong.”
“Your name is like a melody”
“A singer, is that what you are?”
“I've met too many men like you.”
“He's not like any man you've met.”
“Oh, he's crazy. Why would I become his wife?”
“Lover, tell me if you can, Who's gonna buy the wedding bands?”
“So when you sing your song — the one you're working on — spring will come again?”
“Where'd you get that melody?”
“It came to me as if I'd known it all along”
“It's an old song, a song of love from long ago long-time since I heard it though”
“Remember the tale I told you once about the Gods?”
“Remember how it used to be, Their love that made the world go round?”
“Down below and up above, In harmony and rhythm, The Gods sang his song of love, And the world sang it with them.”
“She's never early, always late”
“Well it's like he said, I'm an outdoor girl”
“Are you wondering where I've been?”
“Brother when you're down, you're down, when you're up, you're up if you ain't six feet underground, you're living it up on top”
“Let's not talk about hard times, pour the wine, it's summertime!”
“Who's doing the best she can? [own name], that's who!”
“You take what you can get, and you make the most of it”
“Brother pass that bottle around”
“To the patroness of all of this, [name]!”
“To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now.”
“He could make you see how the world could be, In spite of the way that it is”
“I was alone so long, I didn't even know that I was lonely”
“All I've ever known is how to hold my own but now I wanna hold you, too”
“You take me in your arms and suddenly there's sunlight all around me”
“Now I wanna hold you, hold you close I don't wanna ever have to let you go”
“Now I wanna hold you, hold you tight I don't wanna go back to the lonely life”
“I don't know how or why or who am I that I should get to hold you”
“When I saw you all alone against the sky it's like I'd known you all along”
“I knew you before we met and I don't even know you yet”
“Say that you'll hold me forever, say that the wind won't change on us. Say that we'll stay with each other and it will always be like this”
“That was not six months!”
“Better go and get your suitcase packed, guess it's time to go”
“Did you ever wonder what it's like on the underside?”
“Everybody tryin' to get a ticket to go but those who go they don't come back”
“Down there, it's a bunch of stiffs. Brother, I'll be bored to death”
“Takes a lot of medicine to make it through the wintertime”
“The wage is nothing and the work is hard”
“It's not supposed to be like this.”
“Well, 'til someone brings the world back into tune, This is how it is”
“The wind is changing. There's a storm coming on.”
“Jealousy fuels him and feeds him and fills him with doubt that she'll never come- dread that she'll never come- doubt that his lover will ever come back”
“If you wanna keep your head, you gotta keep your head low”
“In the coldest time of year why is it so hot down here?”
“Lover, when you feel that fire think of it as my desire— think of it as my desire for you!”
“In the darkest time of year why is it so bright down here?”
“Lover, you were gone so long. Lover, I was lonesome”
“They can't find the tune! They can't feel the rhythm!”
“The gods have forgotten the song of their love”
“It's hard enough to feed yourself let alone somebody else”
“Did you think I'd be impressed with this neon necropolis?”
“Lover, what have you become?”
“Lover, everything I do I do it for the love of you”
“If you don't even want my love I'll give it to someone who does”
“I'm a busy man and I can't stay long”
“I got walls to build, I got riots to quell”
“Always a pity for one so pretty and young when poverty comes to clip your wings and knock the wind right out of your lungs”
“Strange is the call of this strange man, I wanna fly down and feed at his hand”
“The choice is yours if you're willing to choose seeing as you've got nothing to lose”
“Wasn't it gonna be the two of us? Weren't we birds of a feather?”
“Let me guess, He's some kind of poet and he's penniless”
“See, people get mean when the chips are down”
“Life ain't easy, Life ain't fair, A girl's gotta fight for her rightful share”
“Whatcha gonna do when the chips are down now that the chips are down?”
“Help yourself, to hell with the rest, even the one who loves you best”
“Take if you can, Give if you must, Ain't nobody but yourself to trust”
“Aim for the heart, Shoot to kill, If you don't do it then the other one will”
“Cast your eyes to heaven, You get a knife in the back”
“Nobody's righteous, Nobody's proud, Nobody's innocent Now that the chips are down”
“My heart is yours always was, and will be. It's my gut I can't ignore”
“My heart it aches to stay but the flesh will have its way”
“Go ahead and lay the blame, Talk of virtue, Talk of sin; Wouldn't you have done the same in her shoes?”
“You can have your principles when you've got a belly full”
“Hey, the big artiste! Ain't you working on your masterpiece?”
“Wherever she is, is where I'll go”
“She called your name before she went, but I guess you weren't listening.”
“Course there is another way, but nah, I ain't supposed to say.”
“It ain't for the sensitive of soul, so do you really wanna go?”
“Wait for me, I'm comin’! Wait, I'm comin' with you!”
“If all you got is your own two legs, just be glad you got 'em”
“Who are you? Where do you think you're going?”
“Who are you? Why are you all alone?”
“Who do you think you are? Who are you to think that you can walk a road that no one ever walked before?”
“Don't give your name, you don't have one, and don't look no one in the eye, that town'll try to suck you dry!”
“They'll truss you up in your Sunday best, and stuff your mouth with cotton!”
“The wall keeps out the enemy and we build the wall to keep us free”
“The enemy is poverty and the wall keeps out the enemy”
“And our work is never done! And the war is never won!”
“There are papers to be signed, step into my office.”
“Now a lot can happen behind closed doors, that's for sure, brother, that's a fact, But a lot can happen on the factory floor when the foreman turns his back”
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