Epic, Pt. 2-Anaïs Mitchell

[00:12.830]Heavy and hard is the heart of the king [00:17.770]King of iron, king of steel [00:22.800]The heart of the king loves everything [00:26.880]Like the hammer loves the nail [00:33.430]But the heart of a man is a simple one [00:38.320]Small and soft, flesh and blood [00:43.870]And all that it loves is a woman [00:49.800]A woman is all that it loves [00:53.840]And Hades is king of the scythe and the sword [00:59.540]He covers the world in the color of rust [01:05.090]He scrapes the sky and scars the earth [01:09.689]And he comes down heavy and hard on us [01:15.040]But even that hardest of hearts unhardened [01:20.810]Suddenly, when he saw her there [01:26.620]Persephone in her mother’s garden [01:30.870]Sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair [01:36.140]The smell of the flowers she held in her hand [01:41.360]And the pollen that fell from her fingertips [01:46.650]And suddenly Hades was only a man [01:53.080]With a taste of nectar upon his lips, singing: [01:57.420]La la la la la la la…