How Long?

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Song How Long?
Artist Anaïs Mitchell
Album Hadestown
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[00:22] Hades, my husband
[00:25] Hades, my light
[00:29] Hades, my darkness
[00:34] If you had heard how he sang tonight
[00:41] You'd pity poor Orpheus
[00:46] All of his sorrow won't fit in his chest
[00:51] It just burns like fire in the pit of his chest
[00:57] And his heart is a bird on the spit in his chest
[01:02] How long, how long, how long?
[01:08] How long?
[01:10] Just as long as Hades is King
[01:15] Nothing comes of wishing on stars
[01:21] Nothing comes of the songs people sing
[01:28] However sorry they are
[01:33] Give them a piece then they'll take it all
[01:38] Show them the crack they'll tear down the wall
[01:44] Lend them an ear and the kingdom will fall
[01:49] The kingdom will fall for a song
[01:55] What does he care for the logic of kings?
[02:01] The laws of your underworld?
[02:08] It is only for love that he sings
[02:13] He sings for the love of a girl
[02:19] You and your pity don't fit in my bed
[02:25] You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
[02:30] And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
[02:35] How long, how long, how long?
[02:41] How long? Just as long as I am your wife
[02:48] It's true the earth must die
[02:54] Then the earth comes back to life
[03:00] And the sun just goes on rising
[03:06] And how does the sun even fit in the sky?
[03:10] It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
[03:16] And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
[03:22] How long, how long, how long?
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