{Joshua, Tyler, and the Workers exit. Jenna, overcome with sympathy, confronts Nico.}

Jenna
What are you afraid of?

Nico
What?

Jenna
He's just a boy in love.

Nico
Have a drink, why don't you?

Jenna
No, I've had enough.
He loves that boy, Nico.

Nico
Well that's too bad.

Jenna
He has the kind of love for him that you and I once had.

Nico
The boy means nothing to me.

Jenna
I know, but he means everything to him.

Nico
So?

Jenna
Let him go.

~

Nico my husband, Nico my light, Nico my darkness
If you had heard how he sang tonight you'd pity poor Joshua

All of the sorrow won't fit in his chest
It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest
And his heart is a bird on a spit in his chest
How long?
How long?
How long?

Nico
How long?
Just as long as Nico is king
Nothing comes of wishing on stars
And nothing comes of the songs people sing
However sorry they are

Give them a piece they'll take it all
Show them a crack they'll tear down the wall
Lend them an ear and the kingdom will fall
The kingdom will fall for a song

Jenna
What does he care for the logic of kings?
The laws of your underworld?
It is only for love that he sings
He sings for the love of a boy

Nico
You and your pity don't fit in my bed
You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
How long?
How long?
How long?

Jenna
How long?
Just as long as I am your wife
It's true the earth must die
But then the earth comes back to life
And the sun must go on rising

Nico & Jenna
And how does the sun even fit in the sky
It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
How long?
How long?
How long?