| Low, keep your head, keep your head low
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| If you wanna keep your head
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| Keep your head, keep your head low
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| If you wanna keep your head
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head
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| In the coldest time of year
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| Why is it so hot down here?
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| Hotter than a crucible
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| It ain’t right and it ain’t natural
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| Lover, you were gone so long
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| Lover, I was lonesome
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| So I built a foundry
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| In the ground beneath your feet
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| Here, I fashioned things of steel
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| Oil drums and automobiles
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| Then I kept that furnace fed
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| With the fossils of the dead
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| Lover, when you feel that fire
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| Think of it as my desire
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| Think of it as my desire for you!
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| La la la la
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| La la la la la
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| La la, la la
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| La la la la la la la la la la la
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| La la la la la la
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| La la
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| La la la la la la
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| La la la la la la
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| La la la la la la
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| Low, keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la…)
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
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| Keep your head, keep your head low
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
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| If you wanna keep your head
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| Is it finished?
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| (Not yet.)
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| Is he always like this?
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| Looking high and looking low
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| For the food and firewood I know
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| We need to find and I am
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| Keeping one eye on the sky and
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| Tryin' to trust that the song he’s working on is gonna
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| (Oooooh)
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| Shelter us (Oooooh)
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| From the wind, the wind, the wind (Oooooh)
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| In the darkest time of year
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| Why is it so bright down here?
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| Brighter than a carnival
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| It ain’t right and it ain’t natural
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| Lover, you were gone so long
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| Lover, I was lonesome
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| So I laid a power grid
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| In the ground on which you stood
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| And wasn’t it electrifying
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| When I made the neon shine!
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| Silver screen, cathode ray
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| Brighter than the light of day
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| Lover, when you see that glare
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| Think of it as my despair
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| Think of it as my despair for you!
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| They can’t find the tune
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| Orpheus!
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| They can’t feel the rhythm
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| Orpheus!
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| King Hades is deafened by a river of stone
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| Poor boy working on a song
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| And Lady Persephone’s blinded by a river of wine
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| Livin' in an oblivion
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| He did not see the storm coming on
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| His black gold flows (Oooooh)
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| In the world down below (Oooooh)
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| And her dark clouds roll in the one up above
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| Look up!
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| Keep your head low
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| And that is the reason we’re on this road
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| And the seasons are wrong
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| And the wind is so strong
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| That’s why times are so hard
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| It’s because of the gods
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| The gods have forgotten the song of their love
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| Singing la la la la la la…
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| Low, keep your head, keep your head low
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la…)
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| Keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
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| Oh, you gotta keep your head low
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| If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la)
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| Lookin' low and lookin' high
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| There is no food left to find
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| It’s hard enough to feed yourself
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| Let alone somebody else
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| I’m trying to believe
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| That the song he’s working on
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| Is gonna harbor me from
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| The wind, the wind, the wind
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| Eurydice was a hungry young girl
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| Give that back!
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| She was no stranger to the wind
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| It’s everything we have!
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| But she had not seen nothing
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| Orpheus!
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| Like the mighty storm she got caught in
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| (spoken)
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| Orpheus!
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| (sung)
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| Shelter us!
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| Only took a minute
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| Harbor me!
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| But the wrath of the gods was in it
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| Every year, it’s getting worse
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| Hadestown, hell on Earth!
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| Did you think I’d be impressed
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| With this neon necropolis?
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| Lover, what have you become?
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| Coal cars and oil drums
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| Warehouse walls and factory floors
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| I don’t know you anymore
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| And in the meantime up above
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| The harvest dies and people starve
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| Oceans rise and overflow
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| It ain’t right and it ain’t natural
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| Lover, everything I do
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| I do it for the love of you
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| If you don’t even want my love
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| I’ll give it to someone who does
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| Someone grateful for her fate
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| Someone who appreciates
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| The comforts of a gilded cage
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| And doesn’t try to fly away
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| The moment Mother Nature calls
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| Someone who could love these walls
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| That hold her close and keep her safe
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| And think of them as my embrace
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| Singing la la la la la la la… (Low, keep your head, keep your head low)
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| Shelter us
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| Think of them as my embrace
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| La la la la la la la… (Low, keep your head, keep your head)
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| Harbor me
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| Think of them as my embrace
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| Of you |