Epic, Pt. 2

by Ana茂s Mitchell

From the album: Hadestown

Track 16 of 20 on Hadestown (2010).

Duration: 2:55

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Lyrics for Epic, Pt. 2

Heavy and hard is the heart of a king King of iron, king of steel The heart of the king loves everything Like the hammer loves the nail But the heart of a man is a simple one Small and soft, flesh and blood And all that it loves is a woman A woman is all that it loves And Hades is king of the scythe and the sword He covers the world in the colour of rust He scrapes the sky and scars the earth And he comes down heavy and hard on us But even that hardest of hearts unhardened Suddenly when he saw her there Persephone in her mother's garden Sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair The smell of the flowers she held in her hand And the pollen that fell from her fingertips And suddenly Hades was only a man With a taste of nectar upon his lips, singing La la la la la la la...

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