Lyrics You Love- Page 2

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:40am

Also

"We could be...
Sitting in the computer lounge
4 am before the final paper is due
Cursing the world 'cause I didn't start sooner
And seeing the rest of the class there too"
- I Wish I Could Go Back to College, "Avenue Q"

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:42am

I love that song PERIOD. It is so true about what college is really like, besides the "**** my TA" line.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:44am

Flowery... I totally agree. "People Like Us" from The Wild Party has to be one of my favorite songs. I love it.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:46am

"I'd like the universe
to get down on its knees
and Say Guido
whatever you please it ok
even if its impossible
we'll arrange it
so arrange it!"-Guido Contini, Guido's song, Nine

One of my favorite roles i almost played- it would have had entirely irish leads if i did it too but that was accidental

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:52am

My favorite lyric from JRB is:

"These people make me tense.
I live in fear they'll start a conversation.
These people make no sense:
They talk and I just stare and shut my mouth.
It's like a foreign land.
I didn't understand
That being Southern's not just being in the South"

AND

"Home calls, and I'm free of the Southern breeze,
Free of magnolia trees and endless sunshine!"

--from PARADE

Why do I like it so much? Because I hate South Carolina and want to leave SO BAD!!!!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 12:56am

I love "The More You Ruv Someone." For example:

The more you love someone,
The more you want to kill ‘em.
The more you love someone,
The more he make you cry
Though you are try
For making peace
With them and loving,
That’s why you love so strong
You like to make him die!

So true. And I also *love* "Not While I'm Around." If I ever get married, I'm going to play that at the reception.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:02am

I'm so glad you agree, CATS!
I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!
Every once in awhile, I get on this kick where I get all teary, sit in my room, and play it over, and over, and over...
(Singing along, of course.)
It's an incredible piece.


SpiderDJ, I agree with you about that line.
My school doesn't even have TAs.

[J.]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:15am

oo thank you spider for that CIVIL WAR one!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:19am

No problem, J. I LOVE THAT SONG TO DEATH.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:36am

These favourites are just off the top of my head, because goodness knows I have a lot of lyrics I adore:

"You gotta go after the things you want while you're still in your prime"
- Avenue Q (really hits a deep chord in me)

"To love another person is to see the face of God"
- Les Miz (I love practically all the lyrics in Les Miz, but this is the great last statement)

"Will the world remember you when you fall? Could it be your death means nothing at all? Is your life...just one more lie?"
- Les Miz (gives me chills)

"Oh my friends, my friends, forgive me that I live and you are gone....empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more"
- Les Miz (again, I adore the lyrics to Les Miz, I find them incredibly poetic and moving)

"Who will buy this wonderful morning, I'm so high I swear I could fly"
- Oliver

"So you fill your life with sound, and if you dance like hell you hope you'll never touch the ground. What happens when the music stops? In the silence will he stay?"
- Bare

"I'm trying to hold on, just waiting to hear your voice, just a word, just one word will do, to end this nightmare..."
- The Lion King

"You will be who you want to be, you can choose whatever heaven grants. As long as you can have your chance, I swear I'll give my life for you."
- Miss Saigon

"And there were three sexes then, one that looked like two men glued on back to back - they were the children of the sun. And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth, they looked like two girls rolled up in one. And the children of the moon were like a fork shoved on a spoon, they were part-sun part-earth, part-daughter part-son."
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

"But I could swear by your expression that the pain down in your soul was the same as the one down in mine....that's the pain that cuts a straight line down through the heart, we call it love."
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

I could go on forever!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:51am

Another one from "Avenue Q":

"George Bush is only for now!"

God, I hope they're right...

[Thoroughly Modern Cara]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:53am

Ok my newest looove is L5Y, I adore almost every lyric!
One of my favorites is...
"Take a breath, take a step, take a chance. Take your time."

Oh yeah also:

"I'll be there soon, Cathy
I'll finish up this chapter and be out the door
I swear I'll be there soon, Cathy
Don't give up on me yet
I am so proud of you, baby
You're doing what you never got to do before
And I will be there, ripe and crawling
If ****in' Random House stops calling
Don't lose faith
Don't get down
Don't despair
I'll be there"
-I really don't know why I love that part I just do! I could listen to it over and over again...in fact I have!

I also love the funny lyrics in The Shmuel Song, Shiksa Goddess, and A Summer in Ohio.

I JRB!

I think my favorite lyric though is from Millie:

"New, improved, and rearranged
It's ever-changing, yet it's never changed"

I just think it's so fitting of not only New York but everything in life. It's also one of those times in the show that always gives me chills.

[J.]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 1:57am

this is for spider and everyone else:

"Come walk a mile in bloody shoes and loose the men that I am loosing. Come walk amongst their ghosts with me and look through eyes to used to seeing faces who have joined the lost platoon."

Judgement Day - THE CIVIL WAR

[DefyingGravity2]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:04am

Some of my favorite lyrics are from L5Y as well:

"Will you share your life with me forever, til the world explodes! Til there's no one left who has ever known us apart."


it is so perfect. so beautiful. i can't deal with it. it makes so much sense is just.. uh.. i'm gettin emotional thinkin about it....


SO GOOD.

[dramafreak13]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:07am

dude, i was just about to write that one! "til there's no one left who has ever known us apart"
god thats beautiful!! sigh...

like, all of jrb's lyrics are amazing...
and then theres william finn, just see my signiture for those

Updated On: 7/14/04 at 02:07 AM

[dramafreak13]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:12am

haha i just thought of another one... this one is just halarious

"to be in him and be screwing a republican is damn unappealing, but i can't help but feeling that its nice to have the roles reversed"
ah...william finn is a genius

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:25am

"Practical cats, dramatical cats
Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorical cats, delphicorical cats
Skeptical cats, dispeptical cats
Romantical cats, pedantical cats
Critical cats, parasitical cats
Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
Statistical cats and mystical cats
Political cats, hypocritical cats
Clerical cats, hysterical cats
Cynical cats, rabbinical cats!"

haha. I love it!

[CJR]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:27am

Some of my favorite lyrics.... not all from broadway shows...

Look I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intelect... though I try to open up to what I don't know...Because reason says I should have died 3 years ago -- Rent

Say there's no future for us as a pair and though I may know I don't care -- Wicked

In his eyes I can see where my heart longs to be. In his eyes I see a gentle glow and in that's where I'll be safe I know" -- J&H

You've gotta go after the things you want while you're still in your prime! There's a fine fine line between love and a waste of time -- Avenue Q

You don't know what you do to me, you don't have a clue! You can't tell what it's like to be me looking at you... it scares me so that I can hardly speak. -- Nine

At night I pray that soon your face will fade away -- Everytime, Britney Spears

Sometimes in my darkest thoughts I wish I'd never learned what it is to be in love and have that love returned -- Aida

This diva needs her stage baby! Let's have fun! -- Rent

Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the bird... Fear or love baby, don't say the answer! Actions speak louder than words... -- Tick, Tick, BOOM!

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:33am

BlueWizard put this before and I agree:
"Oh my friends, my friends, forgive me that I live and you are gone....empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more"
- Les Miz

"You always knew, didn't you mother, you always knew as mother's always do. You always knew didn't you mother, I Was A Stranger In This World. This dumb education was never quite part of my plan. So you left me to ruin, but I'll always know who I am" ~Taboo

"Everybody loves a winner, so nobody love me." ~Cabaret

"You're shining like the brightest star. A transmission on the midnight radio" ~Hedwig

"If I Stay Here. I'll Be Nothing. I'll Be No One. So Don't Hold Me Back. Just Let Me Go. It's Safe In The City." ~Taboo

"and when you're living in America at the end of the millenium, you're what you own!" ~Rent

"My Ego's Swollen, I Just Keep Rolling Along"
"Did you think this would all be much easier than its turned out to be? "
"i got a singular impression things are moving too fast"
~L5Y

"Learn To Live The Unexamined Life" ~Wicked

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 2:59am

I love Hedwig or *Hedvig*. My favorite lines comes from "Angry Inch"

"Long story short
When I woke up from the operation
I was bleeding down there
I was bleeding from the gash between my legs
My first day as a woman
and already it’s that time of the month."

I know it is kinda morbid that I chose that, but I just love the sarcastic humour that is in this song and throughout the show/movie.

Another lyric I love from Hedwig is from "Midnight Radio"

"Rain falls hard
Burns dry
A dream
Or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up
And suddenly gone"

It is just beautiful. Stephen Trask really needs to come out with something else. Genius.

Updated On: 7/14/04 at 02:59 AM

[PennyLou]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 3:46am

"An actress's job is to know what she's willing to show, And then hide all the rest so no-one's the wiser" ~ Fame

"(I'm here), That's all I need to know, And you will keep me safe (I will stay with you, Till you are sleeping) , And you will keep me close, And rain..., Will make the flowers..., (grow...)" ~ Les Mis

" I know every step, I know every song, I know there's a place where i belong, I see all those party lights shining ahead, So someone invite me, Before i drop dead!" ~ Hairspray ~ this one just fit me sooo well!

"I'm alive and I will survive, Show the world that I can take it, When I hit the heights
Put my name in lights, Show the world that I can, Make it "~ Fame

"Theres a dream in teh future theres a voice strugle we have yet to win and there's pride in my heart 'cause I know where I'm goin and I know where I've been
There's a road we must travel there's a promise we must make 'cause the riches will be plenty worth the risk and the chances that we take." ~ Hairspray

"He loves me.. He loves me... He loves me... but only.. on my ...own" ~Les Mis

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bring somthing we must lean are are lead to those who help us grow most inreturn if we let them and we help them in return, now I don't know that I be live thats true but know I am how I am today becasue I knew you" ~ Wicked

"Mama says do ues a toster while standing in a shower... now who can arguer with that" ~ Footloose that song just alwasy maked me laugh

"How do you measure your last year on earth, measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, seasons of love"~ RENT

"with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you" ~ RENT

"I have so many wishes dreams ambitions, none of them which included, not growing up.." ~Frog and Toad

well thast it for now I guess

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 4:29am

Hmmmm, must be a LOT of young Broadway fans on this board. While I see that Sondheim has been mentioned, NO ONE has mentioned four of the greatest lyricist in musical history:

Ira Gershwin:
S'Wonderful
S'Marvelous
You should care for me.
S'Awful nice
S'Paradise
S'What I like to see...

Cole Porter:
I lost my hatbox
I lost mt sables
I lost my suitcase
The one with the beautiful labels
I lost my travels checks
Only this afternoon
I still have my "virgini-ti"
But I'm hoping to lose it soon!

Carolyn Leigh:
Sophia Loren
And Lollibrigida
Could walk in the room
And they'd only get frigier

Lorenz Hart:
My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
You're looks are laughable
Unphotagraphical
Yet, you're my favorite work of art

My favorite Sondheim lyrics are in "You Meet My Wife" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC:

She flutters. How charming!
She flitters. My word!
She floats. Isn't that alarming?
What is she? A bird?

Love all the new shows, but I'm beginning to think that maybe I should campaign for a "Pre-1985 Musical Appreciation Week".

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 4:42am

"But I'm always true to you, darling, in my fashion. Yes, I'm always true to you, darling, in MY WAY!" - Kiss Me, Kate

That whole song actually is really great.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 4:48am

"Leave You" from Follies. One of those moments when Sondheim was so very much on his game and exceeded everything else he'd ever done. Close to that: "Island in the Middle of the Sea" from Pacific Overtures.

[skingdom]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 5:07am

" How can you know who you are till you know what you want...which you dont...so then which do you pick..."
Into the Woods

I screw my head off and lay it at your feet so you can tell me please whats on my mind."
Taboo

" Everything's Coming up Bright Lights and Lollypops...and I agree with whomever said Curtain Up...Light the Lights."
Gypsy