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:
I'll sing a song of a love gone wrong

Hermes:
A love gone wrong, alright
Every year they have this fight!

Orpheus:
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:
Lover, do you hear that sound?
Now the wind is all around
Spinning every weathervane
You said it would never change
Orpheus, all the pretty songs you sing
Ain't gonna shelter us
From the wind, the wind, the wind

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:
A mighty King
A mighty Queen

Hermes:
This year their fighting made
The mightiest storm you've ever seen

Orpheus:
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:
Lover, can you hear me now?
Answer if you can somehow
Orpheus, in all my years
Never seen a storm like this
Now I see all the pretty songs you sing
Ain't gonna harbour me
From the wind, the the wind, the wind

Fates:
Ooh...

Hermes:
She 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

Fates:
Ooh...

Hermes:
Only took a minute

Fates:
Ooh...

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 her 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