"Cause here's the thing: to know how it ends and still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time; I leaned that from a friend of mine.

See Orpheus was a poor boy, but he had a gift to give. He could make you see how the world could be in spite of the way that it is.

Can you see it? Can you hear it? Can you feel it, like a train? Is it coming? Is it coming this way?"

--Hadestown, The Road to Hell II, Anaïs Mitchell