Okay so, sorry about the really random updates, but I have a math test next week and I'm starting an essay for writing. I also have fallen into reading a lot of Stranger Things and IT fics on Ao3. most of them have been reaction ones as of yesterday, so when I get to act two for this I might start an IT and Stranger Things watch their show/movies.
[HERMES]
On the Road to Hell there was a railroad track
"Wait, is the train actually comfortable?" To the confused looks she got, she added, "It's a valid question." Nobody answered her.
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
Oh, come on!
[HERMES]
There was a train comin' up from way down below
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
That was not six months!
Persephone looked at Hades with an exasperated sigh.
[FATES]
Better go and get your suitcase packed, guess it's time to go
[HERMES]
She's gonna ride that train
[COMPANY]
Ride that train...
[HERMES]
She's gonna ride that train
[COMPANY]
Ride that train!
[HERMES]
She's gonna ride that train 'til the end of the line
'Cause the King of the Mine is coming to call
Did you ever wonder what it's like on the underside?
"Why would you want to know what it's like down there, if you ever were to find out you'd be dead." Persephone voiced what most people were thinking.
[COMPANY]
Way down under
[HERMES]
On the yonder side?
[COMPANY]
Way down yonder
[HERMES]
On the other side of his lawn?
Follow that dollar for a long way down
Far away from the poorhouse door
You either get to hell or to Hadestown
"I mean that does make sense no mater how much I don't want to admit it does." said Hades.
Ain't no difference anymore!
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
and the whistle blow
[HERMES and COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[HERMES, spoken] Hound dog howl and the whistle blow
Train come a-rollin, clickety-clack
Everybody tryin' to get a ticket to go
Those who go they don't come back
They goin'
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Ha!
"Clickety-clack?" Orpheus asked, confused. "It's a sound basically." Elizabeth informed him.
[PERSEPHONE]
Winter's nigh and summer's o'er
Hear that high, lonesome sound
Of my husband coming for
To bring me home to Hadestown
Hades and Persephone looked at eachother.
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[PERSEPHONE]
Down there, it's a bunch of stiffs Brother I'll be bored to death
Gonna have to import some stuff
Just to entertain myself
Give me morphine in the tin
Give me a crate of the fruit of the vine
Takes a lot of medicine
To make it through the wintertime
Is it really that boring down there?" Elizabeth asked Persephone. "Kind of." The later answered . Elizabeth nodded.
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Every little penny in the wishing well
Every little nickel on the drum
On the drum!
All them shiny little heads and tails
Where do you think they come from?
They come from
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Orpheus, the current musical genius in the room wondered it "Way Down Hadestown" was going to repeat throughout the show.
[HERMES]
Everybody hungry
Everybody tired
Everybody slaves by the sweat of his brow
The wage is nothing and the work is hard
It's a graveyard in Hadestown
"I mean yeah, it's where you go when you die." Elizabeth deadpanned.
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Mr. Hades is a mean old boss
[PERSEPHONE]
With a silver whistle and a golden scale
[COMPANY]
An eye for an eye!
[HERMES]
And he weighs the cost
[COMPANY]
A lie for a lie!
[HERMES]
And your soul for sale
[COMPANY]
Sold!
[PERSEPHONE]
To the king on the chromium throne
[COMPANY]
Thrown!
[PERSEPHONE]
To the bottom of a Sing Sing cell
[HERMES]
Where the little wheel squeals and the big wheel groans
[PERSEPHONE]
And you better forget about your wishing well
"This is catchy." Eurydice said.
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[HERMES, spoken]
On the Road to Hell, there was a railroad car
And the car door opened and a man stepped out
Everybody looked and everybody saw
It was the same man they'd been singing about
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
You're early!
[HADES, spoken]
I missed you
"You're still early." Elizabeth said, Persephone nodded.
[FATES]
Mr. Hades is a mighty king
Must be making some mighty big deals
Seems like he owns everything
[EURYDICE]
Kind of makes you wonder how it feels
It kind of does, thought Eurydice.
[HERMES]
All aboard...
A-one, A-two
A-one, two, three, four
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Way down under the ground
Way down under the ground
Everyone was impressed with how long some of those notes were held for.
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