Since her show is based on a myth, Mitchell intended the song to be “mythical, metaphoric, archetypal.” But she was thinking of walls, too. “I think it was speaking to people partly because it’s so simple - someone said it’s like ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas,’ because it circles back on itself. “It became the song everybody wanted me to play,” she says. It was one of the first numbers she wrote for “Hadestown,” and quickly became a favorite at the small venues in rural Vermont where she performed. Uncharacteristically for her, Mitchell says, she wrote the song very fast. ![]() ![]() And, she says, it’s held different meanings to different audiences during the long journey of “Hadestown” from community theater project to concept album to off-Broadway show to Tony favorite, with a whopping 14 nods. Singer-songwriter Mitchell wrote the song way back in 2006, a full decade before Trump was elected.
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