HADESTOWN

Guión Perséfone

LIVIN’ IT UP ON TOP
WAY DOWN HADESTOWN
CHANT
WHY WE BUILD THE WALL (OUTRO)
OUR LADY OF THE UNDERGROUND
PAPERS (INTRO)
HOW LONG?
EPIC III
WAIT FOR ME (REPRISE)
WE RAISE OUR CUPS
 LIVIN’ IT UP ON TOP

Hermes:
And on the road to hell, there was a lot of waiting

Coro:
Mmm
Waiting

Hermes:
Everybody waiting on a train

Coro:
Mmm
Waiting on a lady with a

Hermes:
Waiting on a train to bring that lady

Coro:
Mmm
Lady

Hermes:
With the suitcase back again
She's never early, always late

Coro:
Waiting

Hermes:
These days she never stays for long
But good things come to those who wait

Here she comes!

PERSÉFONE:
Well it's like he said, I'm an outdoor girl

Hermes:
And you're late again
PERSÉFONE:
Married to the king of the underworld

Hermes:
She forgot a little thing called spring

PERSÉFONE:
Are you wondering where I've been?

Extra 1:
Where you been?

Extra 2:
I'm wondering

PERSÉFONE:
Been to hell, and back again
But like my mama always said
Brother when you're down, you're down
When you're up, you're up
If you ain't six feet underground, you're living it up on top
Let's not talk about hard times
Pour the wine, it's summertime!
'Cause right now we're livin' it

Coro:
How are we livin' it?

PERSÉFONE:
Livin' it, livin' it up
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

Coro:
Where are we livin' it?

PERSÉFONE:
Livin' it up on top

Who makes the summer Sun shine bright?

That's right, Persephone!
Who makes the fruit of the vine get ripe
Coro
Persephone

PERSÉFONE:
That's me
Who makes the flowers bloom again, in spite of a man?

Coro:
You do

PERSÉFONE:
Who's doing the best she can?
Persephone, that's who

Now some might say, the weather ain't the way it used to be
But let me tell you something that my mama said to me
You take what you can get, and you make the most of it
So right now we're livin' it

Coro:
How are we livin' it?

PERSÉFONE:
Livin' it, livin' it up
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

Coro:
Where are we livin' it?

PERSÉFONE:
Livin' it up on top

Hermes:
It was summertime on the road to hell
There was a girl who had always run away
You might say it was in spite of herself

That this young girl decided to stay

There was a poor boy with a lyre

PERSÉFONE:
Who says times are hard?
Hermes:
The flowers bloomed and the fruit got ripe
And brother for a moment there

PERSÉFONE:
Anybody want a drink?

Hermes:
The world came back to life

[Dance break]

PERSÉFONE:
Up on top, we ain't got much
But we're

Coro:
Livin' it up

PERSÉFONE:
Just enough to fill our cups

Coro:
Livin' it up on top

PERSÉFONE:
Brother pass that bottle around
'Cause we're

Coro:
Livin' it, livin' it up

Hermes:
Let the poet bless this round

Orfeo:
To the patroness of all of this, Persephone
Who has finally returned to us with wine enough to share
Asking nothing in return except that we should live
And learn to live as brothers in this life
And to trust she will provide
And if no one takes too much, there will always be enough
She will always fill our cups

PERSÉFONE:
I will

Orfeo:
And we will always raise them up
To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now
'Cause right now we're livin' it

Coro:
How are we livin' it?

Orfeo:
Livin' it up
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

Coro:
Where are we livin' it?

Orfeo:
Listen here, I'll tell you where
We're livin' it up on top

Coro:
Up on top!

Orfeo:
Livin' it up and we ain't gonna stop
Livin' it, livin' it

Coro:
Livin' it, livin' it

Orfeo:
How are we livin' it?

Coro:
Where are we livin' it?

Orfeo:
Livin' it, livin' it

Coro:
Livin' it, livin' it
Livin' it up on top!

WAY DOWN HADESTOWN

Hermes:
Oh the Road to Hell there was a railroad track

PERSÉFONE:
Oh, come on!

Hermes:
There was a train comin' up from way down below

PERSÉFONE:
That was not six months!

Moiras y Hades:
Better go and get your suitcase packed, guess it's time to go

Hermes:
She's gonna ride that train

Coro:
Ride that train

Hermes:
She's gonna ride that train

Coro:
Ride that train!

Hermes:
She's gonna ride that train until the end of the line
Because the King of the Mine is coming to call
Did you ever wonder what it's like on the underside?

Coro:
Way down under

Hermes:
On the yonder side?
Coro:
Way down yonder

Hermes:
On the other side of his wall

Hermes:
Follow that dollar for a long way down
Far away from the poorhouse door
You either get to hell or to Hadestown
Ain't no difference anymore!
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

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'

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

Hermes:
Ha!

PERSÉFONE:
Winter's night and summer's o'er
Hear that high and lonesome sound
Of my husband coming for
To bring me home to Hadestown

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

PERSÉFONE:
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

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

Moiras:
Every little penny in the wishing well
Every little nickel on the drum

Coro:
On the drum!

Moiras:
All them shiny little heads and tails
Where do you think they come from?
They come from

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

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

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

Hermes:
Mr. Hades is a mean old boss

PERSÉFONE:
With a silver whistle and a golden scale

Coro:
An eye for an eye!

Hermes:
And he weighs the cost

Coro:
A lie for a lie!

Hermes:
And your soul for sale

Coro:
Sold!

PERSÉFONE:
To the king on the chromium throne

Coro:
Thrown!

PERSÉFONE:
To the bottom of a Sing Sing cell

Hermes:
Where the little wheel squeals and the big wheel groans

Moiras:
And you better forget about your wishing well

TODOS:
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground

Hermes:
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

PERSÉFONE:
You're early

Hades:
I missed you

Moiras:
Mr. Hades is a mighty king
Must be making some mighty big deals
Seems like he owns everything

Eurídice:
Kinda makes you wonder how it feels

Hermes:
All aboard
A-one, A-two
A-one, two, three, four

TODOS:
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

CHANT

Coro:
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

PERSÉFONE:
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!

Orfeo y Coro:
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)
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 (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 la)
If you wanna keep your head

Eurídice:
Is it finished?

Hermes:
Not yet

Eurídice:
Is he always like this?

Eurídice y Moiras:
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
(Oooh)
Shelter us (oooh)
From the wind, the wind, the wind (oooh)

PERSÉFONE:
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!

Orfeo:
I can't find the tune

Hermes:
Orpheus!

Orfeo:
I can't feel the rhythm

Hermes:
Orpheus!

Orfeo:
King Hades is deafened by a river of stone

Hermes:
Poor boy working on a song
Orfeo:
And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
Livin' in an oblivion

Hermes:
He did not see the storm coming on

Orfeo y Moiras:
His black gold flows (oooh)
In the world down below (oooh)
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

Hermes:
Look up!

Coro:
Keep your head low

Orfeo y Coro;
(Oh)
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)

Eurídice:
Lookin' low and lookin' high

Moiras:
There is no food left to find
It's hard enough to feed yourself
Let alone somebody else
Eurídice:
I'm trying to believe
That the song he's working on
Is gonna harbor me from

Eurídice y Moiras:
The wind, the wind, the wind

Hermes:
Eurydice was a hungry young girl

Eurídice:
Give that back!

Hermes:
She was no stranger to the wind

Eurídice:
It's everything we have!

Hermes:
But she had not seen nothing

Eurídice:
Orpheus!

Hermes:
Like the mighty storm she got caught in

Eurídice:
Orpheus!
Shelter us!

Hermes:
Only took a minute

Eurídice:
Harbor me!

Hermes:
But the wrath of the gods was in it
PERSÉFONE:
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

Orfeo y Coro:
Singing la la la la la la la (low, keep your head, keep your head low)

Eurídice:
Shelter us

Hades:
Think of them as my embrace

Orfeo y Coro:
La la la la la la la (low, keep your head, keep your head)

Eurídice:
Harbor me
Hades:
Think of them as my embrace
Of you

WHY WE BUILD THE WALL (OUTRO)

(Perséfone habla solo la última línea)

PERSÉFONE:
Anybody want a drink?

OUR LADY OF THE UNDERGROUND

PERSÉFONE:
Step into my office
I don't know about you, boys
But if you're like me
Then hanging around this old manhole
Is bringing you down
Six-feet-under

Getting under your skin

Cabin fever is a-setting in
You're stir crazy!
Stuck in a rut!
Oh you could use a little pick-me-up
I can give you what it is you crave
A little something from the good old days

I got the wind right here in a jar

I got the rain on tap at the bar
I got sunshine up on the shelf
Allow me to introduce myself

Brother, what's my name?

My name is-

Coro:
Our Lady of the Underground!
PERSÉFONE:
Brother, what's my name?

Coro:
Our Lady of Ways!
Our Lady of Means!

PERSÉFONE:
Brother, what's my name?
My name is

Coro:
Our Lady of the Upside Down!

PERSÉFONE:
Wanna know my name?
I'll tell you my name-
Persephone!

Come here, brother- let me guess

It's the little things you miss
Spring flowers
Autumn leaves

Ask me, brother, and you shall receive

Or maybe these just ain't enough
Maybe you're looking for some stronger stuff
I got a sight for the sorest eye
When was the last time you saw the sky?

Wipe away your tears, brother

Brother, I know how you feel
I can see you're blinded by the sadness of it all
But look a little closer and
Everything will be revealed
Look a little closer and
There's a crack in the wall!

(Instrumental)
PERSÉFONE:
You want stars? I got a skyfull!
Put a quarter in the slot, you'll get an eyeful
You want the Moon?
Yeah, I got her too
She's right here waiting in my pay-per-view

How long's it been?

A little moonshine ain't no sin
Tell my husband to take his time!
What the boss don’t know
The boss won't mind

PAPERS (INTRO)

Hades:
Young man
I don't think we’ve met before
You're not from around here, son
Don't know who the hell you are but I can tell you don’t belong
These are workin' people, son
Law-abiding citizens
Go back to where you came from
You're on the wrong side of the fence

PERSÉFONE:
Hades, I know this boy

Hades:
One of the unemployed?

PERSÉFONE:
His name is Orpheus

Hades:
You stay out of this
…
What becomes of trespassers with no respect for property!
 HOW LONG?

PERSÉFONE:
What are you afraid of?

Hades:
What?

PERSÉFONE:
He's just a boy in love

Hades:
Have a drink, why don't you?

PERSÉFONE:
No, I've had enough
He loves that girl, Hades

Hades:
Well that's too bad

PERSÉFONE:
He has the kind of love for her that you and I once had

Hades:
The girl means nothing to me

PERSÉFONE:
I know, but she means everything to him

Hades:
So?

PERSÉFONE:
Let her go
Hades my husband, Hades my light, Hades my darkness
If you had heard how he sang tonight you'd pity poor Orpheus

All of the sorrow won't fit in his chest

It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest
And his heart is a bird on a spit in his chest
How long?
How long?
How long?

Hades:
How long?
Just as long as Hades is king
Nothing comes of wishing on stars
And nothing comes of the songs people sing
However sorry they are

Give them a piece they'll take it all

Show them a crack they'll tear down the wall
Lend them an ear and the kingdom will fall
The kingdom will fall for a song

PERSÉFONE:
What does he care for the logic of kings?
The laws of your underworld?
It is only for love that he sings
He sings for the love of a girl

Hades:
You and your pity don't fit in my bed
You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
How long?
How long?
How long?

PERSÉFONE:
How long?
Just as long as I am your wife
It's true the earth must die
But then the earth comes back to life
And the Sun must go on rising

PERSÉFONE y Hades:
And how does the Sun even fit in the sky
It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
How long?
How long?
How long?

EPIC III

(Perséfone habla al inicio de la canción y canta al final)

Orfeo:
King of shadows
King of shades
Hades was king of the Underworld

Hades:
Oh, it's about me?

Hermes:
Go on

Orfeo:
But he fell in love with a beautiful lady
Who walked up above
In her mother's green field
He fell in love with Persephone
Who was gathering flowers in the light of the Sun
And I know how it was because
He was like me
A man in love with a woman
Singing la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

Hades:
Where'd you get that melody?

[Orpheus]
La la la la la la la

PERSÉFONE:
Let him finish, Hades
…
(Final de la canción)
Orfeo:
Singing la la la la la la la

Hades:
La la la la la la la

[Orpheus]
La la la la la la la

PERSÉFONE, Hades y Orfeo:

La la la la la la

WAIT FOR ME (REPRISE)

(Perséfone y Hades mantienen conversación en medio de la canción)

Hermes:
The meanest dog you'll ever meet
He ain't the hound dog in the street
He bares some teeth and tears some skin
But brother, that's the worst of him
The dog you really got to dread
Is the one that howls inside your head
It's him whose howling drives men mad
And a mind to its undoing

Orfeo y Eurídice:
Wait for me, I'm comin'
Wait, I'm comin' with you
Wait for me, I'm comin' too
I'm comin' too

Coro:
Show the way so we can see
Show the way the world could be
If you can do it, so can she
If she can do it, so can we
Show the way
Show the way the world could be
Show the way so we believe
We will follow where you lead
We will follow with you
Show the way
PERSÉFONE:
Think they'll make it?

Hades:
I don't know

PERSÉFONE:
Hades, you let them go

Hades:
I let them try

PERSÉFONE:
And how 'bout you and I?
Are we gonna try again?

Hades:
It's time for spring
We'll try again next fall

PERSÉFONE:
Wait for me?

Hades:
I will

Eurídice:
…

[Eurydice]
I'm coming wait for me
I hear the walls repeating
The falling of our feet and
It sounds like drumming

Coro:
Show her the way

Eurídice y Coro:
And we are not alone show
Show her the way
I hear the rocks and stones show
Show her the way
Echoing our song echoing our song
I'm coming
Coming
Coming

WE RAISE OUR CUPS

PERSÉFONE:
Pour the wine and raise a cup
Drink up, brothers, you know how
And spill a drop for Orpheus
Wherever he is now

PERSÉFONE y Eurídice:
Some birds sing when the Sun shines bright
Our praise is not for them

PERSÉFONE:
But the ones who sing in the dead of night
We raise our cups to them

PERSÉFONE y Eurídice:
Wherever he is wandering
Alone upon the earth
Let all our singing follow him

PERSÉFONE:
And bring him comfort

PERSÉFONE, Eurídice y Coro:

Some flowers bloom
Where the green grass grows
Our praise is not for them
But the ones who bloom in the bitter snow
We raise our cups to them

Coro:
We raise our cups and drink them up

PERSÉFONE:
We raise 'em high and drink 'em dry
Coro:
To Orpheus and all of us

PERSÉFONE:
Goodnight, brothers, goodnight

HADESTOWN
Guión Oficial I.A.M.
Music, lyrics & book by: ANAÏS MITCHELL

Developed with & originally directed by: RACHEL CHAVKIN

Adaptación por: Julián Camelo

Perséfone: Isabella Uriza

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