"Road To Hell (Reprise)" lyrics - ANAIS MITCHELL

[HERMES]
A'ight
It's an old song
It's an old tale from way back when
It's an old song

[Spoken:]
And that is how it ends

[Sung:]
That's how it goes

Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how
He could have come so close
The song was written long ago

[Spoken:]
And that is how it goes

[Sung:]
It's a sad song
It's a sad tale

[Spoken:]
It's a tragedy

[Sung:]
It's a sad song

[Spoken:]
But we sing it anyway

'Cause here's the thing
To know how it ends
And still begin to sing it again
As if it might turn out this time
I learned that from a friend of mine

See, Orpheus was a poor boy

[EURYDICE, spoken]
Anybody got a match?

[HERMES, spoken]
But he had a gift to give

[EURYDICE, spoken]
Gimme that

[HERMES]

[Spoken:]
He could make you see how the world could be

[Sung:]
In spite of the way that it is

[Spoken:]
Can you see it?
Can you hear it?

[Sung:]
Can you feel it like a train?

[Spoken:]
Is it coming?
Is it coming this way?

[Sung:]
On a sunny day, there was a railroad car
And a lady steppin' off a train
Everybody looked and everybody saw
That spring had come again

With a love song

[PERSEPHONE]
With a love song

[COMPANY]
With a love song

[HERMES]
With a tale of a love from long ago

[HERMES]
It's a sad song

[COMPANY]
It's a sad song

[PERSEPHONE]
It's a sad song

[HERMES]
But we keep singin' even so
It's an old song

[EURYDICE]
It's an old song

[ORPHEUS]
It's an old song

[COMPANY]
It's an old song

[HERMES]
It's an old tale from way back when
And we're gonna sing it again and again
We're gonna sing, we're gonna sing

[ALL]
It's a love song
It's a tale of a love from long again
It's a sad song
We keep singing even so
It's an old song
It's an old tale from way back when
And we're gonna sing it again and again

[HERMES]
We're gonna sing it again