Hadestown Original Broadway Company - Chant Lyrics

Lyrics Chant - Hadestown Original Broadway Company



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 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
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
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!
La la la la
La la la la la
La la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
La la la la la la la...
Is it finished?
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
La la la la la la la...
Not yet
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head, keep your head low
La la la la la la la...
Is he always like this?
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head-
Looking high and looking low
For the food and firewood I know we need to find
And I am keeping one eye in the sky
And try to trust that the song he's working on (Ooh)
Is gonna shelter us
From the wind, the wind, the wind
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
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!
I can't find the tune
Orpheus!
I can't feel the rhythm
Orpheus!
King Hades is deafened by a river of stone
Poor boy working on a song
And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
Living in an oblivion
He did not see the storm coming on
His black gold flows
In the world down below
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above
Look up!
Keep your head low
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...
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
La la la la la la la...
If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
La la la la la la la...
Keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
La la la la la la
If you wanna keep your head-
Lookin' low and lookin' high
There is no food left to find
It's hard enough to feed yourself
Let alone somebody else
I'm trying to believe
That the song he's working on
Is gonna harbor me from
The wind, the wind, the wind
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
Give that back!
She was no stranger to the wind
It's everything we have!
But she had not seen nothing
Orpheus!
Like the mighty storm she got caught in
Orpheus!
Shelter us!
Only took a minute
Harbor me!
But the wrath of the gods was in it
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
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
Singing: la la la la la la la...
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Shelter us
Think of them as my embrace
La la la la la la la...
Low, keep your head, keep your head-
Harbor me
Think of them as my embrace
Of you



Writer(s): Anais Mitchell


Hadestown Original Broadway Company - Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Album Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
date of release
21-06-2019

1 Road to Hell
2 Any Way the Wind Blows
3 Come Home with Me
4 Wedding Song
5 Epic I
6 Livin' it Up on Top
7 All I've Ever Known ("In spite of herself...") [Intro]
8 All I've Ever Known
9 Way Down Hadestown
10 A Gathering Storm
11 Epic II
12 Chant
13 Hey, Little Songbird
14 When the Chips are Down ("Songbird vs. rattlesnake...") [Intro]
15 When the Chips are Down
16 Gone, I'm Gone
17 Wait for Me ("Hey, The big artiste...") [Intro]
18 Wait for Me
19 Why We Build the Wall
20 Our Lady of the Underground
21 Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)
22 Flowers
23 Come Home with Me (Reprise)
24 Papers (“You’re not from around here, son…”) [Intro]
25 Papers (Instrumental)
26 Nothing Changes
27 If it's True
28 How Long?
29 Chant (Reprise)
30 Epic III
31 Epic III (“They danced…”) [Instrumental]
32 Promises
33 Word to the Wise
34 His Kiss, The Riot
35 Wait for Me ("If you wanna walk out of hell...") [Intro] [Reprise]
36 Wait for Me (Reprise)
37 Doubt Comes In
38 Road to Hell (Reprise)
39 We Raise our Cups



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