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This still stuns me, every time, pierces me to the heart just like the first time I heard it... just so incredibly beautiful, and layered, and well made.

----- --- -- - 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 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 and they'll take it all; Show them the crack, and 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 just goes on rising... HADES & 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?