Workers:
Oh keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh you gotta keep your head

Persephone:
In the coldest time of year
Why is it so hot down here?
Hotter than a crucible
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I built a foundry
In the ground beneath your feet

Here I fashioned things of steel
Oil drums and automobiles
Then I kept that furnace fed
With the fossils of the dead

Lover, when you feel that fire
Think of it as my desire
Think of it as my desire for you

Orpheus:
He put trains on the tracks
Grease on the skids
Smoke in the stacks
Of his factories

But every day
he could never be rid
Of the doubt and the dread
That his lover would leave

In the back of his mind
Was an engine that whined
Ringing in the king's ears
Spinning wheels, grinding gears

Til he fell out of tune
And he fell out of time
With the song he once knew
But could no longer hear

Singing la la la la la la la

Workers:
Oh keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
If you wanna keep your head
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
Keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
If you wanna keep your head

Eurydice:
While you're working on your song
There's a storm a coming on
Orpheus, in all my years
I've never seen a sky like this
Tell me love if the song you're working on
Is gonna shelter us
From the wind, the wind, the wind

Is it finished?

Orpheus:
Not yet

Eurydice:
Finish it!

Persephone:
In the darkest time of year
Why is it so bright down here
Brighter than a carnival
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I laid a power grid
In the ground on which you stood

And wasn't it electrifying
When I made the neon shine?
Silver screen, cathode ray
Brighter than the light of day

Lover, when you see that glare
Think of it as my despair
Think of it as my despair for you

Orpheus:
He fell out of time
Out of rhyme, out of rhythym
He kept the queen with him
And the Winter dragged on

And sometimes he'd come above ground
And he'd summon her down
Before summer was meant to be done

The coal cars rolled
And the oil fields flowed
From the world down below
To the one up above

And that is the reason we're on this road
And the seasons are wrong
And the wind is so strong
That's why times are so hard
It's because of the gods
The gods have forgotten the song of their love

Singing la la la la la la la

Workers:
Oh keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
If you wanna keep your head
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
Keep your head keep your head low
Oh you gotta keep your head low

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
If you wanna keep your head

Eurydice:
While he's working on his song
I've never seen the wind so strong
Spinning every weathervane
He said it wouldn't change

Now I see that the song he's working on
Ain't gonna harbour me
From the wind, the the wind, the wind

Hermes:
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
She was no stranger to the wind
But she had not seen nothing
Like the mighty storm she got caught in

Eurydice:
Shelter us

Hermes:
It only took a minute

Eurydice:
Harbor me

Hermes:
But the wrath of the gods was in it

Persephone:
Every year it's getting worse
Hadestown, Hell on Earth
Did you think I'd be impressed
With this neon necropolis?

Lover, what have you become?
Coal cars and oil drums
Warehouse walls and factory floors
I don't know you anymore

And in the meantime up above
The harvest dies and people starve
Oceans rise and overflow
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
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

Someone grateful for their fate
Someone who appreciates
The comforts of a gilded cage
And doesn't try to fly away

The moment mother nature calls
Someone who could love these walls
That hold her close and keep her safe
And think of them as my embrace

Orpheus:
Singing la la la la la la la

Workers:
Oh keep your head keep your head

Eurydice:
Shelter us

Hades:
Think of them as my embrace

Orpheus:
La la la la la la la

Workers:
Oh keep your head keep your head

Eurydice:
Harbor me

Hades:
Think of them as my embrace
Of you