[HERMES, spoken]
Orpheus was a poor boy,​
But he had a gift to give.​
He could make you see how the world could be:

(sung)
In spite of the way that it is

(spoken)
And Eurydice was a young girl,​
But she'd seen how the world was.​
When she fell, she fell in spite of herself,​
In love with Orpheus.​