Epic Iii (Live) - Original Cast Of Hadestown

作曲：Anais Mitchell

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

A woman is all that it loves

And Hades is king of the scythe and the sword

He covers the world in the color of rust

He scrapes the sky and scars the earth

And he comes down heavy and hard on us

But even that hardest of hearts unhardened

Suddenly when he saw her there

Persephone in her mother s garden

Sun on her shoulders wind in her hair

The smell of the flowers she held in her hand

And the pollen that fell from her fingertips

And suddenly Hades was only a man

With a taste of nectar upon his lips singing

La la la la la la la

La la la la la la la

And what has become of the heart of that man

Now that the man is king

What has become of the heart of that man

Now that he has everything

The more he has the more he holds

The greater the weight of the world on his shoulders

See how he labors beneath that load

Afraid to look up and afraid to let go

And he keeps his head low

And he keeps his back bending

He grows so afraid that he'll lose what he owns

But what he doesn't know

Is that what he's defending

Is already gone

Where is the treasure inside your chest

Where is your pleasure

Where is your youth

Where is the man with his heart in his hands

Who stands in the garden with nothing to lose singing

La la la la la la la

La la la la la la la