The Lindsay Family
SONGS FROM MUSICALS

1. I Dreamed a Dream

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong…

I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.

But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.

He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder…
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!

And still I dream he’ll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living,
So different now from what it seemed…
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed…

2. On My Own

And now i’m all alone again,
Nowhere to go, no one to turn to.
Did not want your money sir,
Came out here cuz i was told to.
And now the night is near,
Now i can make believe he’s here.

Sometimes i walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping.
I think of him, and then i’m happy
With the company i’m keeping.
The city goes to bed,
And i can live inside my head.

On my own,
Pretending he’s beside me.
All alone,
I walk with him ’til morning.
Without him,
I feel his arms around me.
And when i lose my way i close my eyes
And he has found me.

In the rain,
The pavement shines like silver.
All the lights are misty in the river.
In the darkness,
The trees are full of starlight.
And all i see is him and me for ever and forever.

And i know
It’s only in my mind,
That i’m talking to myself
And not to him.
And although i know that he is blind,
Still i say,
There’s a way for us.

I love him,
But when the night is over he is gone.
The river’s just a river.
Without him,
The world around me changes.
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers.

I love him,
But every day i’m learning
All my life,
I’ve only been pretending!
Without me,
His world will go on turning,
A world that’s full of happiness that i have never known!

I love him…
I love him…
I love him…
But only on my own…

3. One Day More

VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!

MARIUS
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?

VALJEAN
One day more.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!

EPONINE
One more day all on my own.

MARIUS & COSETTE
Will we ever meet again?

EPONINE
One more day with him not caring.

MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be with you.

EPONINE
What a life I might have known.

MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!

EPONINE
But he never saw me there!

ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!

MARIUS
Do I follow where she goes?

ENJOLRAS
At the barricades of freedom.

MARIUS
Shall I join my brothers there?

ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form

MARIUS
Do I stay; and do I dare?

ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?

ALL
The time is now, the day is here

VALJEAN
One day more!

JAVERT
One more day to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
I will join these little schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!

VALJEAN
One day more!

M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch ’em run amuck,
Catch ’em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there’s a free for all,
Here a little `dip’
There a little `touch’
Most of them are goners
So they won’t miss much!

Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning

2: Raise the flag of freedom high!

1: Every man will be a king

2: Every man will be a king

1: There’s a new world for the winning

2: There’s a new world to be won

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?

MARIUS
My place is here, I fight with you!

VALJEAN
One day more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not live until today.

EPONINE
One more day all on my own!

MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when we are parted?

JAVERT(overlapping)
I will join these people’s heros
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little —- Secrets,
I will know the things they —— know.

VALJEAN
One day more!

MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away

EPONINE
What a life I might have known!

MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with you my world has started

JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We’ll be ready for these

Schoolboys

THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch ’em run amok
Catch ’em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there’s a free-for-all!

VALJEAN
Tomorrow we’ll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day

ALL
Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!

4. Empty Chairs & Empty Tables

There’s a grief that can’t be spoken.
There’s a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.


Here they talked of revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about `tomorrow’
And tomorrow never came.

From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lonely barricade at dawn.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me

That I live and you are gone.
There’s a grief that can’t be spoken.
There’s a pain goes on and on.

Phantom faces at the window.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.

Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friend will sing no more.

5. Music of the Night

Night time sharpens,
Heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses
Abandon their defenses

Slowly gently, night unfurls
Its splendour
Grasp it, sense it,
Tremulous and tender

Turn your face away
From the garish light of day,
Turn your thoughts away
From cold unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night

Close your eyes and
Surrender to your darkest dreams
Purge your thoughts of the life
You knew before
Close your eyes,
Let your spirit start to soar

And you’ll live as you’ve
Never lived before

Softly, deftly
Music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it
Secretly possess you

Open up your mind
Let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness which you know
You can not fight,
The darkness of
The music of the night

Let your mind start a journey
Through a strange new world
Leave all thoughts of the world
You knew before
Let your soul take
You where you long to be

Only then can you belong to me

Floating, falling
Sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me
Savor each sensation
Let the dream begin
Let your darker side give in
To the power of
The music that I write
The power of
The music of the night

You alone can make
My song take flight
Help me make the
Music of the night

6. Phantom of the Opera

CHRISTINE
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice that calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again for now I find
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside my mind

PHANTOM
Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside your mind

CHRISTINE
Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear

PHANTOM
It’s me they hear…

BOTH
Your/My spirit and my/your voice in one combined
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside my/your mind

BACKGROUND
He’s there, the phantom of the opera!

CHRISTINE
He`s there, the phantom of the opera

PHANTOM
Sing, my Angel of Music
Sing, my Angel
Sing for me
Sing, my Angel!
Sing for me!

7. All I Ask of You

RAOUL
No more talk of darkness,
Forget these wide-eyed fears
I’m here, nothing can harm you
my words will warm and calm you
Let me be your freedom,
let daylight dry your tears.
I’m here with you, beside you,
to guard you and to guide you…

CHRISTINE
Say you love me every waking moment,
turn my head with talk of summertime…
Say you need me with you now and always…
Promise me that all you say is true
that’s all I ask of you

RAOUL
Let me be your shelter
let me be your light
You’re safe, No one will find you
your fears are far behind you…

CHRISTINE
All I want is freedom,
a world with no more night
and you, always beside me, to hold me and to hide me…

RAOUL
Then say you’ll share with me
one love, one lifetime
let me lead you from your solitude
Say you need me with you here, beside you…
anywhere you go, let me go too
Christine, that’s all I ask of you…

CHRISTINE
Say you’ll share with me one love, one lifetime…
say the word and I will follow you…
(right) BOTH:
Share each day with me,
each night, each morning…
(right) CHRISTINE
Say you love me…

RAOUL
You know I do…

BOTH
Love me – that’s all I ask of you
Anywhere you go let me go too
Love me – that’s all I ask of you…

PHANTOM:
I gave you my music . . .
made your song take wing . . .
and now, how you’ve
repaid me:
denied me
and betrayed me . . .
He was bound to love you
when he heard you sing . . .

Christine …
Christine …

CHRISTINE/RAOUL (Background):
Say you’ll share with me,
one love, one lifetime…
Say the word and I will follow you…
Share each day with me
Each night, each morning

PHANTOM:
You will curse the day you did not do!
All of the Phantom asked of you!

8. Defying Gravity

GLINDA
(spoken) Elphaba – why couldn’t you have stayed calm for
once, instead of flying off the handle!
(sung) I hope you’re happy!
I hope you’re happy now
I hope you’re happy how you
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you’re clever!

ELPHABA
I hope you’re happy
I hope you’re happy, too
I hope you’re proud how you
Would grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

BOTH
So though I can’t imagine how
I hope you’re happy right now

GLINDA
(spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you’re sorry:
(sung) You can still be with the Wizard
What you’ve worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted:

ELPHABA
(spoken) I know:
(sung) But I don’t want it –
No – I can’t want it
Anymore:

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I’m through with playing by the rules
Of someone else’s game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It’s time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It’s time to try
Defying gravity
I think I’ll try
Defying gravity
And you can’t pull me down!

GLINDA
Can’t I make you understand?
You’re having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA
I’m through accepting limits
‘Cuz someone says they’re so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I’ll never know!
Too long I’ve been afraid of
Losing love I guess I’ve lost
Well, if that’s love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I’d sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I’m defying gravity
And you can’t pull me down:
(spoken) Glinda – come with me. Think of what we could
do: together.

(sung) Unlimited
Together we’re unlimited
Together we’ll be the greatest team
There’s ever been
Glinda –
Dreams, the way we planned ’em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem:

BOTH
There’s no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity

ELPHABA
They’ll never bring us down!
(spoken) Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA
I hope you’re happy
Now that you’re choosing this

ELPHABA
(spoken) You too
(sung) I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it
And you don’t live to regret it
I hope you’re happy in the end
I hope you’re happy, my friend:

ELPHABASo if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
“Ev’ryone deserves the chance to fly!”
And if I’m flying solo
At least I’m flying free
To those who’d ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I’m flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I’ll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA
I hope you’re happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her, she’s wicked!
Get her!

ELPHABA
:Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked
So we’ve got to bring her

ELPHABA
Ahhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Down!

9. Electricity

I can’t really explain it, I haven’t got the words
It’s a feeling that you can’t control
I suppose it’s like forgetting, losing who you are
And at the same time something makes you whole

It’s like that there’s a music, playing in your ear
And I’m listening, and I’m listening, and then I disappear

And then I feel a change, like a fire deep inside
Something bursting me wide open, impossible to hide
And suddenly I’m flying, flying like a bird
Like Electricity, electricity
Sparks inside of me, and I’m free, I’m free

It’s a bit like being angry; it’s a bit like being scared
Confused and all mixed up and mad as hell
It’s like when you’ve been crying
And you’re empty and you’re full
I don’t know what it is, it’s hard to tell

It’s like that there’s some music, playing in your ear
But the music is impossible, impossible to hear

But then I feel it move me
Like a burning deep inside
Something bursting me wide open
Impossible to hide
And suddenly I’m flying
Flying like a bird
Like Electricity, electricity
Sparks inside of me
And I’m free, I’m free

Electricity sparks inside of me
And I’m free, I’m free
Oh, I’m free

10. Memory

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight, the withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn’t give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It’s so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You’ll understand what happiness is

Look
A new day has begun

11. Requiem

ZOE:
Why should I play this game of pretend?
Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?
Such a great son and wonderful friend
Oh don’t the tears just pour

I can curl up and hide in my room
There in my bed still sobbing tomorrow
I could give in to all of the gloom
But tell me, tell me what for

Why should I have a heavy heart?
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?

Why should I play the grieving girl and
Lie saying that I miss you
And that my world has gone dark without your light
I will sing no requiem tonight

LARRY: (spoken) I’m going to bed

CYNTHIA: (spoken) Come sit with me

LARRY: Cynthia

CYNTHIA: For five minutes?

LARRY: I’m exhausted

CYNTHIA: You know Larry, at some point you’re going to have to start-

LARRY: Not tonight. Please. I’ll leave the light on for you.

LARRY: (sung)
I gave you the world, you threw it away,
leaving these broken pieces behind you
Everything wasted, nothing to say
So I can sing no requiem

CYNTHIA:
I hear your voice, feel you near
Within these words I finally find you
And now that I know that you are still here
I will sing no requiem tonight

ZOE & LARRY: Why should I have a heavy heart?

ZOE:
Why should I say I’ll keep you with me?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
Why should I play the grieving girl and lie saying that I miss you
And that my world has gone dark without your light
I will sing no requiem
Tonight
‘Cuz when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep
No one lights a candle to remember
No, no one mourns at all
They lay them to sleep
So don’t tell me that I didn’t have it right
Don’t tell me that it wasn’t black and white
After all you’ve put me through, don’t say it wasn’t true
That you were not the monster that I knew,
‘Cuz I cannot play the grieving girl and lie
Saying that I miss you and that my world has gone dark

LARRY: I will sing no requiem

CYNTHIA: I will sing no requiem

ZOE: I will sing no requiem tonight

12. You Will Be Found

So maybe let that feeling wash away
Maybe there’s a reason to believe you’ll be okay
‘Cuz when you don’t feel strong enough to stand
You can reach out your hand

And oh, someone will coming running
And I know, they’ll take you home
Even when the dark comes crashing through
when you need a friend to carry you
when you’re broken on the ground
You will be found

So let the sun come streaming in
Cuz you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again
Lift your head off the ground and look around
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found

There’s a place where we don’t have to be alone
Every time that you call out
You’re a little less alone
If you only say the word
Across the silence
Your voice is heard

Even when the dark comes crashing through
When you need a friend to carry you
When you’re broken on the ground
You will be found
So let the sun coming streaming in
Cuz you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again
If you only look around
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found

Out of the shadows, morning is breaking
All is new, all is new

Suddenly I see that
All is new, all is new
You are not alone
You are not alone
You are not alone
You are not alone
You are not alone
You are not alone

Even when the dark comes crashing through
And you need someone to carry you
When you’re broken on the ground
You will be found
When the sun comes streaming in
You’ll reach up and you’ll rise again
If you only look around
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found

13. Let it Go

The snow blows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen
The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in
Heaven knows I try

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always had to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well now they know

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold you back anymore
Let it go, let it go,
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand
And here I’ll stay
Let it go, let it go
The cold never bothered me anyway

It’s funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can’t get to me at all
Up here in the cold thin air I finally can breathe
I know left a life behind but I’m to relieved to grieve

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold you back anymore
Let it go, let it go,
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand
And here I’ll stay
Let it go, let it go
The cold never bothered me anyway

Standing frozen in the life I’ve chosen
You won’t find me, the past is so behind me
Buried in the snow

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold you back anymore
Let it go, let it go,
Turn my back and slam the door
And here I stand
And here I’ll stay
Let it go, let it go
The cold never bothered me anyway

14. For Evermore

I was the one who had it all
I was the master of my fate
I never needed anybody in my life
I learned the truth too late

I’ll never shake away the pain
I close my eyes, but she’s still there
I let her steal into my melancholy heart
It’s more than I can bear

Now I know she’ll never leave me
Even as she runs away
She will still torment me, calm me, hurt me
Move me, come what may

Wasting in my lonely tower
Waiting by an open door
I’ll fool myself she’ll walk right in
And be with me for evermore

I rage against the trials of love
I curse the fading of the light
Though she’s already flown so far beyond my reach
She’s never out of sight

Now I know she’ll never leave me
Even as she fades from view
She will still inpire me, be a part of
Everything I do

Wasting in my lonely tower
Waiting by an open door
I’ll fool myself she’ll walk right in
And as the long, long nights begin
I’ll think of all that might have been
Waiting here for evermore!

15. Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina

 

It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel

That I still need your love after all that I’ve done
You won’t believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she’s dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen, I had to change

Couldn’t stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom, running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Don’t cry for me, Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise, don’t keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions, they’re not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you, and hope you love me

Don’t cry for me, Argentina

Don’t cry for me, Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise, don’t keep your distance

Have I said too much?
There’s nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know that every word is true.

16. Agony

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Did I abuse her
Or show her disdain?
Why does she run from me?
If I should lose her,
How shall I regain
The heart she has won from me?

Agony!
Beyond power of speech,
When the one thing you want
Is the only thing out of your reach.

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
High in her tower,
She sits by the hour,
Maintaining her hair.
Blithe and becoming and frequently humming
A lighthearted air:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

Agony!
Far more painful than yours,
When you know she would go with you
If there only were doors.

[BOTH]
Agony!
Oh, the torture they teach!

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
What’s as intriguing-

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Or half so fatiguing-

[BOTH]
As what’s out of reach?

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Am I not sensitive,
Clever,
Well-mannered,
Considerate,
Passionate,
Charming,
As kind as I’m handsome
And heir to a throne?

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
You are everything maidens could wish for!

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Then why no-?

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
Do I know?

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
The girl must be mad!

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
You know nothing of madness
Till you’re climbing her hair
And you see her up there
AS you’re nearing her,
All the while hearing her:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

[BOTH]
Agony!

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Misery!

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
Woe!

[BOTH]
Though it’s different for each.

[CINDERELLA’S PRINCE]
Always ten steps behind-

[RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE]
Always ten feet below-

[BOTH]
And she’s just out of reach.
Agony
That can cut like a knife!

I must have her to wife.

17. Movie in my Mind

[GIGI]
They are not nice, they’re mostly noise
They swear like men, they screw like boys
I know there’s nothing in their hearts
But every time I take one in my arms
It starts:
The movie in my mind
The dream they leave behind
A scene I can’t erase
And in a strong GI’s embrace
Flee this life
Flee this place
The movie plays and plays
The screen before me fills
He takes me to New York
He gives me dollar bills
Our children laugh all day
And eat too much ice cream
And life is like a dream
Dream
The dream I long to find
The movie in my mind

[KIM]
I will not cry, I will not think
I’ll do my dance, I’ll make them drink
When I make love, it won’t be me
And if they hurt me, I’ll just close my eyes

[KIM, GIRLS]
And see they are not nice, they’re mostly noise
The movie in my mind they kill like men, they die like boys
The dream that fills my head they give their cash, they keep their hearts
A man who will not kill but every night again it starts

[KIM]
Who’ll fight for me instead
He’ll keep us safe all day
So no one comes at night
To blow the dream away
Dream
The dream I have to find
The movie in my mind

[ALL GIRLS]
And in a strong GI’s embrace
Flee this life
Flee this place

[KIM]
A world that’s far away
Where life is not unkind
The movie in my mind

18. The Last Night of the World

Chris
In a place that won’t let us feel
In a life where nothing seems real
I have found you
I have found you
Kim
In a world that’s moving to fast
In a world where nothing can last
I will hold you
I will hold you
Chris
Our lives will change when tomorrow comes
Kim
Tonight our hearts drown the distant drums
Chris
And we have music alright
tearing the night
Chris and Kim
A song
played on a solo saxophone
a crazy sound
a lonely sound
a cry that tells us love goes on and on
played on a solo saxophone
Its telling me to hold you tight
and dance like its the last night of the world
Chris
On the otherside of the the earth
there’s a place where life still has worth
I will take you
Kim
I’ll go with you
Chris
You wont believe all the things you’ll see
I know cause you’ll see them all with me
Chris and Kim
If we’re together that’s when
We’ll here it again
A song
played on a solo saxophone
a crazy sound
a lonely sound
a cry that tells us love goes on and on
played on a solo saxophone
Its telling me to hold you tight
and dance like its the last night of the world
Kim
Dreams were all I ever knew
Chris
Dreams, you wont need when I’m through
Chris and Kim
Anywere
we may be
I will sing with you, a song…
So stay with me and hold me tight
and dance like its the last night of the world

19. I Still Believe

KIM:

Last night I watched him sleeping,
my body pressed to him.
And then he started speaking.
The name I heard him speak was Kim…
Yes, I know that this was years ago,
but when moonlight fills my room I know
you are here, still.

I still-
I still believe
you will return.
I know you will.
My heart against all odds
holds still.

Yes, still,
I still believe.
I know as long as I can keep believing,
I’ll live.
I’ll live,
love cannot die.
You will return, you will return,
and I alone know why…

ELLEN:
Last night I watched you sleeping.
Once more the nightmare came.
I heard you cry out something,
a word that sounded like a name.
And it hurts me more than I can bear
knowing part of you I’ll never share,
never know.

But still-
I still believe
the time will come
when nothing keeps us apart.
My heart forever more holds still.

It’s all over I’m here,
there is nothing to fear!
Chris, what’s haunting you?
Won’t you let me inside
what you so want to hide.
I need you too!

KIM: ELLEN:
For still-
I will hold you all night
I will make it all right!
I still believe You are safe with me!
As long as I But I wish you would tell
what you don’t want to tell,
can keep believing
I’ll live! what you hell must be
I’ll live,
You can sleep now.
you will return.
You can cry now.
And I know why I’m your wife now
I’m yours for life

BOTH:
Untill we die.

20. Naughty

Jack and Jill, went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water, so they say
Their subsequent fall was inevitable
They never stood a chance, they were written that way
Innocent victims of their story!

Like Romeo and Juliet
T’ was written in the stars before they even met
That love and fate, and a touch of stupidity
Would rob them of their hope of living happily
The endings are often a little bit gory
I wonder why they didn’t just change their story?
We’re told we have to do as we’re told but surely
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty.

Just because you find that life’s not fair it
Doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change.

Even if you’re little, you can do a lot, you
Mustn’t let a little thing like, ‘little’ stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Might as well be saying
You think that it’s ok
And that’s not right!
And if it’s not right!
You have to put it right!

Cinderella, in the cellar
Didn’t have to do much as far as I can tell
Her Godmother, was two thirds fairy
Suddenly her lot was a lot less scary
But what if you haven’t got a fairy to fix it?
Sometimes you have to make a little bit of mischief.

Just because you find that life’s not fair it
Doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change.

Even if you’re little, you can do a lot, you
Mustn’t let a little thing like, ‘little’ stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Might as well be saying
You think that it’s ok
And that’s not right!
And if it’s not right!
You have to put it right!

In the slip of a bolt, there’s a tiny revolt.
The seeds of a war in the creak of a floorboard.
A storm can begin, with the flap of a wing.
The tiniest mite packs the mightiest sting!
Every day, starts with the tick of a clock.
All escapes, starts with the click of a lock!
If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out
You don’t have to cry, you don’t have to shout!

‘Cause if you’re little you can do a lot, you
Mustn’t let a little thing like, ‘little’ stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Won’t change a thing!

Just because you find that life’s not fair, it
Doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it!
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
You might as well be saying
You think that it’s ok
And that’s not right!
And if it’s not right!
You have to put it right!

But nobody else it gonna put it right for me!
Nobody but me is going to change my story!
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty!

21. When I Grow up

BRUCE:
When I grow up
I will be tall enough to reach the branches
That I need to reach to climb the trees
You get to climb when you’re grown up.

BRUCE + TOMMY:
And when I grow up
I will be smart enough to answer all
The questions that you need to know
The answers to before you’re grown up

AMANDA + ERIC:
And when I grow up
I will eat sweets every day
On the way to work and I
Will go to bed late every night!

BRUCE, TOMMY, AMANDA, + ERIC:
And I will wake up
When the sun comes up and I
Will watch cartoons until my eyes go square

ALL CHILDREN EXCEPT MATILDA:
And I won’t care ’cause i’ll be all grown up!
When I grow up!

When I grow up, when I grow up, when I grow up,
I will be strong enough to carry all
The heavy things you have to haul
Around with you when you’re a grown-up!

ADULTS AND CHILDREN:
And when I grow up, when I grow up
I will be brave enough to fight the creatures
That you have to fight beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown-up!

And when I grow up
I will have treats every day.
And i’ll play with things that mum pretends
That mum’s don’t think are fun.
And I will wake up
When the sun comes up and I
Will spend all day just lying in the sun
But I won’t burn ’cause I’ll be all grown-up!
When I grow up!

MISS HONEY:
And when I grow up,
I will be brave enough to fight the creatures
That you have to fight beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown-up,
When I grow up…

MATILDA:
Just because you find that life’s not fair, it
Doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it,
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change!

MISS HONEY:
When I grow up….

MATILDA:
Just because I find myself in this story,
It doesn’t mean that everything is written for me.
If I think the ending is fixed already,
I might as well be saying
I think that it’s ok!
And that’s not right!

.

22. When You Believe

[MIRIAM]
Many nights we’ve prayed
With no proof anyone could hear

In our hearts a hopeful song we barely understood
Now we are not afraid
Although we know there’s much to fear
We were moving mountains long before we knew we could

[Chorus]
There can be miracles when you believe
Though hope is frail it’s hard to kill

Who knows what miracles you can achieve
When you believe, somehow you will
You will when you believe

[TZIPPORAH]
In this time of fear when prayer so often proved in vain
Hope seemed like the summer birds; too swiftly flown away
Yet now I’m standing here

[MIRIAM]
Now I’m standing here

[TZIPPORAH]
With heart so full I can’t explain

[MIRIAM & TZIPPORAH]
Seeking faith and speaking words I never thought I’d say

[Chorus]

There can be miracles when you believe

(When you believe)

Though hope is frail it’s hard to kill

(It’s hard to kill)

Who knows what miracles you can achieve

(You can achieve)

When you believe, somehow you will

You will when you believe

[HEBREW CHILDREN]
Ashira ladonai; ki ga-oh ga-ah
Ashira ladonai; ki ga-oh ga-ah
Mi chamocha ba-elim adonai
Mi kamocha ne-edar bakodesh
Nachita b’chasd’cha am zu ga-alta
Nachita b’chasd’cha am zu ga-alta
Ashira, ashira, ashira

Ashira ladonai; ki ga-oh ga-ah
Ashira ladonai; ki ga-oh ga-ah
Mi chamocha ba-elim adonai
Mi kamocha ne-edar bakodesh
Nachita b’chasd’cha am zu ga-alta
Nachita b’chasd’cha am zu ga-alta
Ashira, ashira, ashira!

[Chorus]
[ALL]
There can be miracles when you believe
Though hope is frail it’s hard to kill
(It’s hard to kill)
Who knows what miracles you can achieve
(You can achieve)
When you believe, somehow you will
Now you will
You will when you believe
(When you believe)

[MIRIAM & TZIPPORAH]
You will when you believe

23. A Million Dreams

I close my eyes and I can see
The world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I’ve lost my mind
I don’t care, I don’t care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design

’Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna
Make

There’s a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
Special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile

On a rainy day

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds
I don’t care, I don’t care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design

Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna
Make

However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you’ll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see

Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
A million dreams, a million dreams
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna
make
For the world we’re gonna make

24. This is Me

I am not a stranger to the dark
Hide away, they say
‘Cause we don’t want your broken parts
I’ve learned to be ashamed of all my scars
Run away, they say
No one’ll love you as you are

But I won’t let them break me down to dust
I know that there’s a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them
out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I’m meant to be, this is me

Look out ’cause here I come
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh, oh, oh

Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away ’cause today, I won’t let the
shame sink in
We are bursting through the barricades and
Reaching for the sun,
We are warriors

1 –Yeah, that’s what we’ve become
2 –(yeah, that’s what we’ve become)
I won’t let them break me down to dust
I know that there’s a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
(eh, eh, eh)
I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them
out (eh, eh, eh)
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I’m meant to be, this is me

Look out ’cause here I come (eh, eh, eh)
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
(eh, eh, eh)
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1&3 -Oh-oh-oh-oh
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1,3&5 -Oh-oh-oh-oh
2 Oh-oh-oh, 1oh-oh-oh,
1&2 –oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
This is me
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1&3 -Oh-oh-oh-oh
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1,3&5 -Oh-oh-oh-oh
2 Oh-oh-oh, 1oh-oh-oh,
1&2 –oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
This is me

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them
out
This is brave, this is proof
This is who I’m meant to be, this is me
Look out ’cause here I come (eh, eh,eh)
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
(to the beat I drum)
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

(Whenever the words try to cut me
down, I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown
them out)
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
2 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
1 –Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
This is me