#livin it up on top

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The Poppies – Lucien Frank // The Thin Red Line – Harold H. Piffard (restored by Adam Cuerden) (detail) // Livin' it Up On Top from Hadestown

for @saircasm 💙

[musicalgifs]

now, why would a man of his own free will go to work all day in the mine, in the mill? why would he trade the sunshine for a couple of nickels and dimes?

[milflaszlo]

The heart of a man is a simple one Small and soft, flesh and blood... 📹: @medium-observation

[thesweetnessofspring]

Had one of those "how did I not realize it sooner?" moments, but Orpheus gives a toast to Persephone, and then in the end, Persephone gives a toast to Orpheus. Everything in this show comes around full circle!

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

further lyrics and info below the cut. even if you havent seen the show i want opinions!

NYTW-> BROADWAY

1 2 3 4 5 6

EPIC III-

Where is the man with his hat in his hands/Who stands in the garden with nothing to lose -> Where is the man with arms outstretched?/ To the woman he loves with nothing to lose

DOUBT COMES IN-

Doubt comes in/ And strips the paint/ Doubt comes in/ And turns the wine/ Doubt comes in and leaves a trace/ Of vinegar and turpentine -> Doubt comes in/ The wind is changing/ Doubt comes in/ How cold it's blowing/Doubt comes in and meets a stranger/ Walking on a road alone

IF IT'S TRUE-

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/Take my arms that used to reach out/ In the dark to where she lay -> If it's true what they say/if theres nothing to be done/If its true that its too late/And the girl I love is gone/If its true what they say/Is this how the world is?/To be beaten and betrayed and then be told that nothing changes

[...]

Take this voice, take these hands/I can’t use them anyway/Take this music and the memory/Of the muse from which it came -> (Absent, replaced with the workers' lyrics?)

WAY DOWN HADESTOWN-

Everybody dresses in clothes so fine/Everybody's pocket are weighted down/Everybody sippin the ambrosia wine/ It's a goldmine, in hadestown -> [Cut, replaced with she's gonna ride that train" build up after "that was not six months"]

CHANT II-

When I was a young girl like you/Sister, I was hungry too/Hungry for the underworld/When I was a young girl/Now you know how it tastes/The fruit of Mr. Hades’ ways/Sister, it’s a bitter wine-Spit it out while you still have time/Take it from a woman of my age/Love is not a gilded cage/All the wealth within these walls/Will never buy the thing called love/Love was when he came to me/Begging on his bended knees/To please have pity on his heart/And let him lay me in the dirt.../I felt his arms around me then/We didn’t need a wedding bed/Dark seeds scattered on the ground/The wild birds were flying around/That’s when I became his wife/But that was in another life/That was in another world/When I was a young girl!-> [Cut entirely]

ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS

In the fever of a world in flame/in the season of the hurricane/flood'll get ya if the fire dont/any way the wind blows/Sister gone gone the [nomad*]'s route/brother gone gone for a job down south/gone the same way as the shanty town/and the traveling show/any way the wind blows

In the valley of the exodut/in the belly of a bowl of dust/crows and buzzards fly in a row/any way the wind blows-> [replaced by hermes's exposition on the fates]

*initial use of the word g*psy, which is a slur against the roma/romani people. mitchell was unaware of the hateful connotations and cut the lyric once made aware.

[sagaschan]

HADESTOWN

That hermes was an experience to last....

[yelllow-oak]

And what if I say that's Orpheus

[screampied]

Begas remember when you told us that story of how your ex gave you a high five after you finished 🤗

BYEEEE WHY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS

[rhysdoesstuff]

I literally just want to sing Hadestown

I don’t care who what when where or why

I want to, can, and will sing all part all at once

you can’t stop me :)

[myheadphonesareneverloudenough]

i had a dream last night that jaime lyn beatty was persephone in hadestown and i need to know if yall understand my vision here

[daily-dose-of-danno]

which ep is ur LEAST fav?

My least fav eps that come to mind are The Ultimate Enemy, The Fright Before Christmas, Kindred Spirits, Livin’ Large, and Phantom Planet.

Season 3, Episode 7 - Livin’ Large

[ziipzeepzop-eez]

Look, it's you! :D /silly

(it's actually amber gray as persephone in the broadway production of hadestown!)

HOMAIGAH 🤩 ZEEPIE BEEP DUPE?? ZIIBOBO ASPIRATION 😩🙌🏾✨🎶🎬⚡🪩💃🏾🎤

[thesweetnessofspring]

Obsessed with this cut stanza from Orpheus's toast in "Livin' It Up on Top."

Found in Working on a Song.

[sabraeal]

hi! I'm still a bit shy (which is why I'm on anon) but I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely adore your stories!!! Your obiyuki helped me through a hard time in my life and I will never not be thankful for that <3 sending you lots of love!!

thank you so much nonnie!!! Certain fic have certainly kept me afloat in the hard times, so I'm always so happy to know I can pay that kindness forward to others

[babieken]

Personally I think You Problem is a lot better than Butter but it’s probably because MX vocals always impress me no matter the song. Also The Dreaming was the first album I bought from MX so that probably makes a difference too 💕

As a newer fan, I was wondering what some of your favorite songs are! I have quite a few albums now but I haven’t listened to every single song yet 😔 Anyways thanks for all your commentary you are one of my MX blogs that I follow ☺️

OH NO SLIFJLSIJFD i did not mean they were on the same level of bad, oh god... okay let me use a different metaphor. these two songs are like if u had a really shitty fabric and gave some to me (who has never sewn in her life) and some to... Donatella Versace. we'd both make a dress out of a shitty fabric and they won't be great dresses but one would still be significantly better than other lsijflsidj Honestly, I get being biased towards the first album of a group u stan. its the album that got u into them, its totally understandable and I am guilty of it too but I think for a lot of older fans (and I don't even consider myself an older fan, I only started to stan full time with Fatal Love) don't have that fond of an opinion/memory abt The Dreaming album as a whole. as an Era. because it was an English release and completely managed by the English team and we all know who's in charge of that team. it was a messy time, and the songs themselves aside, the quality of the album wasn't great. iirc it was hella expensive, and the cover design... someone literally found it to be a premade thing on some website. and don't even get me started on the promotions... I'm having war flashbacks.

oh hmmmmmm... im assuming u mean pre-2021? I'd say some of my favorite (slightly) older mx songs excluding title sons and in no particular order: Myself, Mohae, Turbulance, Rodeo, Deja Vu, Calm Down, 5:14, Rollercoaster, Destroyer, If Only, Because of you, Lost in the Dream, the entire Phenomenon and Fatal LoveAlbum, UR, Monsta truck, Misbehave.