Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)

The deal is signed?

Yes

About time

Get on the line

I did what I had to do

That's what they did too

Now in Hadestown, there were a lot of souls (Oh, keep your head, keep your head)

Working on the wall with all their might (Oh, you gotta keep your head)

See they kept their heads down low (If you wanna keep your head)

Couldn't quite see their faces, right?

But you could hear them singing (Oh keep your head, keep your head)

Swinging their hammer to the cold hard ground

You can hear the sound of the pickaxe ringing (If you want to keep your head)

And they called it freedom (Freedom)

I'm Euridice

Doesn't anybody hear me?

They can hear

But they don't care

No one has a name down here

Mister Hades set you free

To work yourself into the ground

Free to spend eternity

In the factory, and the warehouse

Where the whistle screams

And the foremen shout

And your punching in, and punching in

And punching in and you can't punch out

And you're

Way down Hadestown

And way down Hadestown

And way down Hadestown

Way down under the ground

Why won't anybody look at me?

They can look

But they don't see

You see, life's easier that way

Your eyes will look like that someday

Down in the river of oblivion

You kissed your little life goodbye

And Hades laid his hands on you

And gave you everlasting life

And everlasting overtime

In the mine

In the mill

And the machinery

Your place on the assembly line

Replaces all your memories

Way down Hadestown

And way down Hadestown

And way down Hadestown

Way down under the ground

What do you mean I'll look like that?

That's what it looks like to forget

Forget what?

Who you are

And everything that came before

I have to go

Go where?

Go back!

Oh, and where is that?

So what was your name again?

You've already forgotten?

You see, it's like I said before

A lot can happen behind closed doors

Eurydice was a hungry young girl

But she wasn't hungry anymore

What she was instead wasn't dead

Dead to the world anyway

You see, she went behind those doors

And signed her life away

Oh

Saw that wheel up in the sky

Heard the big bell tolling

A lot of souls have gotta die

To keep the rust belt rolling

A lot of spirits gotta break

To make the underworld go round

Way down Hadestown

Way down under the ground (Way down under the ground)