Hadestown - Wait For Me
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Hermes
How to get to Hadestown:
You’ll have to take the long way
down
Through the underground, under
cover of night
Laying low, staying out of sight
ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t
no map
Just a telephone wire and a
railroad track
keep on walking and you don’t
look back
’Til you get to the bottomland
Orpheus
Wait for me, I’m coming
Wait, I’m coming with you
Wait for me, I’m coming too
I’m coming too
Hermes
The River Styx is high and wide
Cinder bricks and razor wire
Walls of iron and concrete
Hound dogs howling 'round the
gate
Those dogs’ll lay down and play
dead
If you got the bones, if you got
the bread
But if all you got is your own
two legs
Just be glad you got ’em
Orpheus And Fates
Wait for me, I’m coming
Wait, I’m coming with you
Wait for me, I’m coming too
I’m coming too
Who are you?
Where do you think you're going
Who are you?
Why are you alone?
Who do you think you are?
Who are you to think you can
walk a road no one ever walked
before?
La-la-la-la-la-la-la
la la-la la la la la
la la-la la la la...
Hermes
You’re on the lam, you’re on the
run
Don’t give your name, you don’t
have one
And don’t look no one in the eye
This town will try to suck you
dry
They’ll suck your brain, they’ll
suck your breath
They’ll pluck the heart right
out your chest
They’ll truss you up in your
Sunday best
And stuff your mouth with cotton
Orpheus And Company
Wait for me, I’m coming
Wait, I’m coming with you
Wait for me, I’m coming too
I’m coming!
I’m coming, wait for me
I hear the walls repeating
the falling of my feet and
It sounds like drumming
And I am not alone
I hear the rocks and stones
Echo in my song
I’m coming...
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