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How Long? Lyrics by Amber Gray, Patrick Page

Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2019

[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?
Credits
Amber Gray

Amber Gray

Patrick Page

Patrick Page

About “How Long?” by Amber Gray

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"How Long?" is credited to Amber Gray, Patrick Page. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"How Long?" appears on "Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2019.

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