Wait for Me - Anaïs Mitchell, Ben Knox Miller, Justin Vernon

How to get to Hadestown

You’ll have to take the long way down

Through the underground, under cover of night

Laying low, staying out of sight

Ain’t no compass, brother, there ain’t no map

Just a telephone wire and the railroad track

Keep on walking and you don’t look back

'Til you get to the bottomland

Wait for me, I’m coming

Wait, I’m coming with you

Wait for me, I’m coming too

I’m coming too

River Styx is high and wide

Cinderbricks and razorwire

Walls of iron and concrete

Hound dogs howling round the gate

Them 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

You best be glad you got 'em

Wait for me, I’m coming

Wait, I’m coming with you

Wait for me, I’m coming too

I’m coming too

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 will 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

Wait for me, I’m coming

Wait, I’m coming with you

Wait for me, I’m coming too

I’m coming

Wait, wait, wait, wait