Anais Mitchell piosenki

Down at headquarters, there’s a big database With black and white photos of the side of your beautiful face And your library record, and all your test scores And an invitation to party like it’s 1984 Baby, don’t look so nervous, they just want the facts...

Don't matter what I do, I never do right by you I only let you down I walk a hundred miles on my knees to see you smile All you do is frown Annmarie, have mercy on me Can't you see my misery is all for thee? Have mercy, Annmarie Don't matter what I sa...

In the fever of a world in flames In the season of the hurricanes The flood will get you if the fire don't Any way the wind blows And there ain't a thing that you can do When the weather takes a turn on you Except for hurry up and hit the road Any way...

I could tell you stories like the government tells lies Oh, but no one listens any more In the rooms the women come and go Talking on the mobile phones And the television talks about the war When I was a baby there was laughter in my house And my daddy s...

If I can't keep it At least let me call it by name That was called falling This is called pain It's called love, what I'm losing I know love is a stranger I know that changes come I know love is a changer I'm gonna go quietly You don't have to tell m...

I never felt so high, I never felt so high I never felt so high, I think I'm coming down I never laughed so loud, I never laughed so loud I never laughed so loud, I think I'm coming down Nothing gonna stop me now Nothing gonna stop me now Nothing gonna...

I'm a live wire I'm a short-wave radio Do you copy? I'm a flash of light From the radar tower to the runway If I leave you Gonna do it semi-automatically Do you blame me? And you are so far Out there in the static Hey baby, am I coming through? I'm...

You and I were walking on the avenue It was cold and we were old friends then Talking at each other You asked me how I’d been and I could not complain I just put one foot before the other We got where we were going And we drank a little wine And I forgo...

[ORPHEUS & THE FATES] Doubt comes in And strips the paint Doubt comes in And turns the wine Doubt comes in and leaves a trace Of vinegar and turpentine Where are you? Where are you now? Doubt comes in And kills the lights Doubt comes in And chil...

Be it work or be it rite? Father, tell me Brings us to the mountainside, every day, a dying day Be it work or be it rite, oh, my sweet babe We come to make a sacrifice, every day, a dying day Be it ox or be it ram? Father, tell me Please the God of Abrah...

[ORPHEUS] King of diamonds, king of spades Hades was king of the kingdom of dirt Miners of mines, diggers of graves They bowed down to Hades who gave them work And they bowed down to Hades who made them sweat Who paid them their wages and set them about...

[ORPHEUS] Heavy and hard is the heart of the king King of iron, king of steel The heart of the king loves everything Like the hammer loves the nail But the heart of a man is a simple one Small and soft, flesh and blood And all that it loves is a woman...

[EURYDICE] What I wanted was to fall asleep Close my eyes and disappear Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air Lily white and poppy red I trembled when he laid me out You won’t feel a thing, he said, when you go down Nothing gonna wake you now...

[EURYDICE] Orpheus, my heart is yours Always was and will be It’s my gut I can’t ignore Orpheus, I’m hungry Oh, my heart, it aches to stay But the flesh will have its way Oh, the way is dark and long I’m already gone, I’m gone [THE FATES] Go ahead a...

PERSEPHONE Hades, my husband, Hades, my light Hades, my darkness If you had heard how he sang tonight You'd pity poor Orpheus! All of his sorrow won't fit in his chest It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest And his heart is a bird on a spit...

Love you, love you, love you, he did, he did, he did He stood high above you, you were just a little kid Your daddy was a farmer, his back was burnished red and gold And every time he closed his eyes a rooster crowed He sowed a hundred rows of corn, the s...

Hey, little songbird, give me a song I’m a busy man and I can’t stay long I got clients to call, I got orders to fill I got walls to build, I got riots to quell And they’re giving me hell back in Hades Hey, little songbird, cat got your tongue? Always a...

[HADES] The devil take this Orpheus And his belladonna kiss Beautiful and poisonous Lovely! Deadly! Now it thickens on my tongue Now it quickens in my lung Now I’m stricken! Now I’m stung! It’s done already! Dangerous, this jack of hearts With his...

Oh, go to sleep, you weary hobo Lay back, lay back and close your eyes I know you’ve seen a lot of sorrow I know you’ve heard a lot of lies They said, “Work hard and save your money” You were a worker all your life And in the end who got the honey But...

Hold on to Everything While you’re holding onto my hand Like the bones of your face that are holding your smile While the bones of your feet hold the land That is holding this city we lived in As it readies itself for the fall As it follows the planet ba...