Talking Wait for Me (Reprise)

Wait for me, I'm coming

Wait, I'm coming with you

Wait for me, I'm coming too

In the first act it's Orpheus singing to Eurydice, "Wait for me, I'm

Coming to the Underworld to get you." And in the reprise, it's

Eurydice telling Orpheus to wait for her, to not look back, that

She'll see him in the aboveground world at the end of the

Journey. And the first time that you hear this song, Hermes is

Giving Orpheus literal instructions about how to get to Hadestown

Physical details about how to get to Hadestown. And in this

Reprise, it's more metaphorical than that. He's speaking to

Orpheus about that the real road lies between his ears and

Behind his eyes, that he has to sort of master himself and his

Mind and not give in to doubt in order to achieve the mission

Show the way the world could be

If you can do it, so can she

If she can do it, so can we

Show the way the world could be

This song has an outro that actually I wrote because I remember a

Playwright friend seeing a workshop version of Hadestown in New

York and saying, "I think what you really need is an 11 o'clock

Number, a moment of just musical throwdown before the kind of

Denouement of the show." And there never was a moment like that

And so I wrote the outro of "Wait For Me (Reprise) " of the "I'm

Coming, wait for me," that "I hear the walls repeating." And that's

The reason that that outro exists in "Wait For Me" in the first act

And it was very important because it felt final. It felt like a

Declaration, like a commitment, like something had changed in the

Song. And it became in Hadestown a very important moment for Eurydice

Where she just, it's right in the belt of her voice. She just gets

To kind of have one more chance to throw down all the love and

Passion and commitment that she's got

Before the tragic end of the story

Show the way

I'm coming, wait for me

Show the way

I hear the walls repeating

The falling of our feet and