by Anaïs Mitchell on album Folk the Banks

Down at headquarters There's a big database With black and white photos Of the side of your beautiful face And your library records And all your test scores And an invitation to party Like it's 1984

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

Bring it on I'll be waiting with my baby and the curtains drawn No evening news Just our bodies and a record playing Delta blues But he got a smile as wide as the road to hell Wide as the road we're o

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

This is what we do when we go to your place Drink two beers in the kitchen and talk about work Listen to AFAX and act like we don't know what we're missing This is what we do when we go to my place Ea

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

Riding on a sea of brass And colored beads and broken glass Behind a painted china mask She might be looking at you She's got her shade up to her chin A dirty little bourbon grin And all the saints go

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

The bedroom window view of chestnuts says it's morning It's still dark and it's snowing The floor is cold and the bed is warm It's almost time I was going I put my wet boots on and walk on down To the

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

You and I were walking on the avenue It was cold and we were old friends then Talking at each other You asked me how I'd been and I could not complain I just put one foot before the other We got where

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

One two three four five six seven The word came down to him from heaven And naked as an animal he knew Everything of flesh and bone He could call it all his own If he could name it He could lay claim

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

It was a bad summer you said You worked as a butcher in a yuppie store And you'd go home to cheap beer and say You didn't know what you stayed in the city for And we were hog-tied to our demons We jus

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

Oh love, where are we going Where are you taking me Why do our eyes play tricks on us A stranger where your body was And nothing where a mountain used to be I will follow you there I will follow you

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell

I am I am I am calling I am calling you out I am I am calling I am calling you I am calling you out I am I am calling I am calling you I am calling you out I am I am calling I am calling you I am call

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hadestown

HADES The devil take this Orpheus And his belladonna kiss Beautiful and poisonous Lovely! Deadly! Now it thickens on my tongue Now it quickens in my lung Now I? m stricken! Now I? m stung! It? s done

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hadestown

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

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hadestown

ORPHEUS If it's true what they say If my love is gone for good They can take this heart away They can take this flesh and blood Take my mouth that kissed her mouth Take my tongue that sung her praise

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

(from Hadestown) 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

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

This is just to tell you That I wear your dress sometimes The one you made with the gold brocade And the empire waist line You fit it to your figure When it looked just like my own That was Jersey in

by Anaïs on album The Love Album

I love you I adore you I am always missing you I'm always looking for you I love you {x4} It's in the way your touch makes me feel so fine It's in the way your body perfectly fits mine It's in the wa

by Anaïs on album The Cheap Show

Look what they done to my song ma look what they done to my song well it's the only thing that I could do half right and it's turning out all wrong ma look what they done to my song look what they do

by Anaïs on album The Cheap Show

I'm a bad blues player, bad as I can be. I'm a bad blues player, bad as I can be. I can't keep up with the beat... ... But I like it. I'm a bad blues player, bad as I can be. I'm a bad blues player,

by Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer on album Child Ballads

The king has been a prisoner And a prisoner long in Spain And Willie of the Winsbury Has lain long with his daughter Jane "What ails you, what ails you, my daughter Jane? Why you look so pale and wan?

by Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer on album Child Ballads

Willie stands in his stable door And he's combing his coal black steed And he's thinking of fair Margaret's love And his heart began to bleed "Mother, fetch my hat and coat Help me tie them on I'll a