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, there ain't no map

Just a telephone wire and the 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 to
HERMES

River Styx is high and wide
Cinderbricks and razorwire
Walls of iron and concrete

Hound dogs howling round the gate
Them 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
You best be glad you got 'em
ORPHEUS

Wait for me, I'm coming
Wait, I'm coming with you
Wait for me, I'm coming too

I'm coming to
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
That 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
Wait for me, I'm coming

Wait, I'm coming with you
Wait for me, I'm coming too
I'm coming

Wait, wait, wait, wait