Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)

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by lorenotfound
by lorenotfound
                                    
                                              Okay, so when this fic is done, I'm going to write another fic like this one. Although I don't know what musical to do. So... suggestions? I'm aware that we're nowhere near done with this fic, but I want to start planning. 
                          [FATE, spoken]
The deal is signed?
                          [EURYDICE, spoken]
Yes

Eurydice paled, now that it was confirmed that she signed the papers, she had a feeling she wasn't going to like the consequences. 

[FATE, spoken]
About time

[FATE, spoken]
Get on the line

[EURYDICE, spoken]
I did what I had to do

[FATE, spoken]
That's what they did too

[HERMES]
Now in Hadestown there were a lot of souls

[WORKERS]
Low, keep your head, keep your head

[HERMES]
Working on the wall with all their might

[WORKERS]
Oh, you gotta keep your head

[HERMES]
You see, they kept their heads down low

[WORKERS]
If you wanna keep your head

[HERMES]
You couldn't quite see their faces right
But you could hear them singing:

"This sounds like Way Down Hadestown." Persephone said. 

                          "That's cause this is a reprise." Elizabeth responded. Persephone nodded. 

[WORKERS]
Low, keep your head, keep your head

[HERMES]
Swinging their hammers in the cold, hard ground
You can hear the sound of the pickaxe ringin'

[WORKERS]
If you wanna keep your head

[HERMES]
And they called it--

[HERMES & WORKERS]
"Freedom."

"That's what they call freedom?" Orpheus asked. The Fates looked around the room, observing everything. 

[EURYDICE, spoken]
I'm Eurydice
Doesn't anybody hear me?

[FATE, spoken]
They can hear

[FATE, spoken]
But they don't care

[FATE, spoken]
No one has a name down here

"They used to though, right?" Eurydice asked nervously.
                          "They did, but they don't remember it anymore." Hades responded. 

[FATES]
Mr. Hades set you free
To work yourself into the ground
Free to spend eternity

[FATE]
In the factory

[FATE]
And the warehouse

[FATES]
Where the whistles scream

[FATE]
And the foreman shouts

[FATE]
And you're punchin' in

[WORKERS]
Hoo

[FATE]
And punchin' in

[WORKERS]
Hoo

[FATE]
And punchin' in

[FATE]
And you can't punch out, and you're-

[FATES (WORKERS)]
Way down Hadestown
(Oh, keep your head, keep your head low)
Way down Hadestown
(Oh, you gotta keep your head low)
Way down Hadestown
(If you wanna keep your head)
Way down under the ground!
(Keep your head low)

"I will say, this song is very good." Persephone stated. 

[EURYDICE, spoken]
Why won't anybody look at me?

[FATE, spoken]
They can look

[FATE, spoken]
But they don't see

[FATE, spoken]
You see, it's easier that way

[FATES, spoken]
Your eyes will look like that someday
(sung)
Down in the river of oblivion

                          "Wait, what?" Eurydice asked, not getting an answer, she figured she'd find out soon. 
                          [FATE]
You kissed your little life goodbye

[FATES & WORKERS]
And Hades laid his hands on you

[FATES]
And gave you everlasting life!

                          Elizabeth muttered something about Tuck Everlasting. Whatever that meant.

                          [FATES & WORKERS]
And everlasting overtime

[FATE]
In the mine

[FATE]
The mill

[FATE & WORKERS]
And the machinery

[FATES (WORKERS)]
Your place on the assembly line
(Ohhhh)

[FATE]
Replaces all your memories

                          "Oh." Eurydice said. She understood that, but didn't want it to happen to her. 
                          [FATES and WORKERS]
Way down Hadestown
(Oh, keep your head, keep your head low)
Way down Hadestown
(Oh, you gotta keep your head low)
Way down Hadestown
(If you wanna keep your head)
Way down under the ground!
(Keep your head low)

[EURYDICE, spoken]
What do you mean I'll look like that?

[FATE, spoken]
That's what it looks like to forget

                          "There's the answer." Elizabeth said grimly. 
                          [EURYDICE, spoken]
Forget what?

[FATE, spoken]
Who you are

[FATE, spoken]
And everything that came before

[EURYDICE, spoken]
I have to go

[FATE, spoken]
Go where?

[EURYDICE, spoken]
Go back!

[FATE, spoken]
Oh?
And where is that?

                          "You don't remember?" Orpheus asked. Eurydice shook her head, "I guess not." she said. 
                          [FATE, spoken]
So what was your name again?

[FATE, spoken]
You've already forgotten

                          "That fast?" Hermes said in amazement, he knew that the process was fast, but he didn't realize how fast it really was. 
                          [HERMES, spoken]
You see, it's like I said before:
A lot can happen behind closed doors
Eurydice was a hungry young girl, but she wasn't hungry anymore
What she was instead, was dead--
Dead to the world, anyway
You see, she went behind those doors
And signed her life away

                          Eurydice shuddered. 
                          [WORKERS]
Ah-ooh

[FATE]
Saw that wheel up in the sky

[WORKERS]
Hoo

[FATE]
Heard the big bell tolling

[WORKERS]
Ah-ooh

[FATE]
A lot of souls have gotta die

[FATES & WORKERS]
To keep the Rust Belt rollin'

                          "Well that's obvious." Elizabeth said, she then proceeded to sing "Obvious" under her breath. 
                          [WORKERS]
Ah-ooh

[FATES]
A lot of spirits gotta break

[FATES & WORKERS]
To make the underworld go 'round

[FATES]
Way down Hadestown

[WORKERS]
Hoo

[FATES & WORKERS]
Way down under the ground!
                          There were mixed reactions to that song, not liking what happened to Eurydice. 
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