作词 : Anaïs Mitchell
 作曲 : Anaïs Mitchell
 [PERSEPHONE, spoken
 What are you afraid of?

 [HADES, spoken
 What?

 [PERSEPHONE, spoken
 He's just a boy in love

 [HADES, spoken
 Have a drink, why don't you?

 [PERSEPHONE, spoken
 No, I've had enough
 He loves that girl, Hades

 [HADES, spoken
 Well that's too bad

 [PERSEPHONE, spoken
 He has the kind of love for her that you and I once had

 [HADES, spoken
 The girl means nothing to me

 [PERSEPHONE, spoken
 I know, but she means everything to him

 [HADES, spoken
 So?

 [PERSEPHONE
 (spoken)
 Let her go
 (sung)
 Hades my husband, Hades my light, Hades my darkness
 If you had heard how he sang tonight you'd pity poor Orpheus

 All of the 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 in his chest
 How long?
 How long?
 How long?

 [HADES
 How long?
 Just as long as Hades is king
 Nothing comes of wishing on stars
 And nothing comes of the songs people sing
 However sorry they are

 Give them a piece they'll take it all
 Show them a crack they'll tear down the wall
 Lend them an ear and the kingdom will fall
 The kingdom will fall for a song

 [PERSEPHONE
 What does he care for the logic of kings?
 The laws of your underworld?
 It is only for love that he sings
 He sings for the love of a girl

 [HADES
 You and your pity don't fit in my bed
 You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
 And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
 How long?
 How long?
 How long?

 [PERSEPHONE
 How long?
 Just as long as I am your wife
 It's true the earth must die
 But then the earth comes back to life
 And the sun must go on rising

 [HADES and PERSEPHONE
 And how does the sun even fit in the sky
 It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
 And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
 How long?
 How long?
 How long?