ORPHEUS Heavy and hard is the heart of the 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 he loves is a woman / A woman is all that he loves And Hades is king of the scythe and the sword / He covers the world in the color 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