save me isa briones... isa briones save me...

And then I turned away / Into the shade...

ALT

any other anais "the alliterator" mitchell stans out there feeling despondent about the internal rhyme schemes and consonant effects of yore

the loss of the hadestown epic iii lyrics "heavy and hard is the heart of the king" and "the heart of the king loves everything / like the hammer loves the nail" and "he scrapes the sky and scars the earth / and he comes down heavy and hard on us" was truly unforgivable

And then I turned away / Into the shade...

orpheus: time to put on the best goddamn talent show this underworld has ever seen

Hear that high and lonesome sound

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

Drink up, brothers, you know how
And spill a drop for Orpheus
Wherever he is now...

lover’s desire.

hadestown save me.... save me hadestown...

to know how it ends and still begin to sing again