Wait for Me [Broadway] lyrics

[HERMES, spoken]

How to get to Hadestown:

You have to take the long way down

Through the underground, under cover of night

Layin' low, stayin' out of sight

Ain't no compass, brother, ain't no map

Just a telephone wire and a railroad track

Keep on walkin' and don't look back

'Til you get to the bottomland

[ORPHEUS]

Wait for me, I'm comin'

Wait, I'm comin' with you

Wait for me, I'm comin' too

I'm coming too

[HERMES, spoken]

The River Styx is high and wide

Cinder bricks and razor wire

Walls of iron and concrete

Hound dogs howling 'round the gate

Those dogs'll lay down and play dead

If you got the bones, if you got the bread

But if all you got is your own two legs

Just be glad you got 'em

[ORPHEUS and FATES]

Wait for me, I'm comin'

Wait, I'm comin' with you

Wait for me, I'm comin' too

I'm coming too

[FATES]

Who are you?

[FATE]

Where do you think you're going?

[FATES]

Who are you?

[FATE]

Why are you all alone?

[FATES]

Who do you-

[FATE]

-Think you are?

[FATES]

Who are you-

[FATE]

-To think that you can walk a road that no one ever walked before?

[ORPHEUS]

La la la la la la

La la la la la la la

(the COMPANY begins to echo and do rounds)

[ORPHEUS]

La la la la la la la

La la la la la

(HERMES cuts them off)

[HERMES]

You're on the lam, you’re on the run

Don't give your name, you don't have one

And don't look no one in the eye

That town'll try to suck you dry

They'll suck your brain, they'll suck your breath

They'll pluck the heart right out your chest

They'll truss you up in your Sunday best

And stuff your mouth with cotton

[ORPHEUS and COMPANY]

Wait for me I'm coming! I'm coming I'm coming

Wait, I'm coming with you I'm coming

Wait Wait I'm coming for me, I'm coming too

I'm coming!

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS]

I'm coming wait for me

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS and HERMES]

I hear the walls repeating

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS and HERMES]

The falling of my feet and

[ORPHEUS and COMPANY]

It sounds like drumming

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS and HERMES and Unknown Voice]

And I am not alone

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS and HERMES, and Unknown Voice]

I hear the rocks and stones

[COMPANY]

Wait!

[ORPHEUS]

Echoing my song

I'm coming!

[HERMES]

Coming...

[COMPANY]

Coming...

• Artist:Hadestown (Musical)
• Album:Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)