Chant

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

(Is it finished?) Oh, you gotta keep your head low

If you wanna keep your head

(Not yet.) Oh, you gotta keep your head low

Keep your head, keep your head low

(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 on the sky and

Tryin' to trust that the song he's working on is gonna

Shelter us (Oooooh)

From the wind, the wind, the wind (Oooooh)

♪

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!

They can't find the tune

Orpheus!

They 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

Livin' in an oblivion

He did not see the storm coming on

His black gold flows (Oooooh)

In the world down below (Oooooh)

And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

Look up!

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

If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la...)

Oh, you gotta keep your head low

Keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la...)

Oh, you gotta keep your head low

If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la)

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 (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