Specific short lines or lyrics that give you chills- Page 3

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 12:10am

I totally agree with the Rent ones. Especially "Poor baby" right before Mark and Roger's fight. But right before that after the funeral when they're all fighting and Mimi says, "He was the same way, it was always run away, hit the road, don't commit, you're full of s**t!" Such anger!

Also, Ragtime during "Your Daddy's Hands". "I buried my heart in the ground! When I buried you in the ground."

I'm sure I have a ton more, but these came to mind right away.

[bkonbroadway]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 12:18am

DEFINATELY:

Light in the Piazza when Clara says, "Mother, I can't leave you." When Margaret replies, "YES YOU CAN." I get the chills!!

Also....

In Aida after they are found out, Amneris goes to Radames and says, "And did you ever love me...at all?" Chills! Who has not had that feeling in their life?

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 9:38am

Rent:
"but I am over her"

Totally. The end of Christmas Bells gives me chills as it is, but I love the way that line weaves in with the music (not to mention that Anthony's delivery is amazing).

[VenusEnvy]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 10:21am

I agree with every post on here but was surprised to see no Evita.


"Don't cry for me Argentina.
The truth is I shall not leave you.
Though it may get harder, for you to see me
I'm Argentina and always will be"


"Oh my daughter! Oh my son! Understand what I have done."

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 10:25am

"And the angels proclaim..." - The end of "Dangerous Game"

"When the candle flickers, and the river bickers, what else can you do but stitch... One more star, one more stripe..." - "The Flagmaker, 1775" from Songs for a New World

"What do you do when you can't dance anymore?" - A Chorus Line

"Give me a day, Jamie! Bring back the lies, hang them back on the wall..." - "Still Hurting," The Last 5 Years

[AngActing]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 10:39am

Wicked:
"Something has changed inside me, something is not the same."
"If that's love it comes at much too high a cost!"

Rent:
"Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?"
"Without you, the ear hears, the pulse beats . . ."
"Life goes on, but I'm gone because I die without you."
"Find the one song before the virus takes hold . . .glory, like a sunset. One song to redeem this empty life!"

Cats:
"Touch me, it's so easy to leave me. Touch me and you'll understand what happiness is.

Les Miserables:
"He's like the son I might have known, if God had granted me a son."
"And still I dream he'll come to me and we will spend the years together!"
"I don't feel any pain. You're here and that's all I need to know."

and so much more in that show!

Updated On: 11/16/07 at 10:39 AM

[theactorsociety]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 12:15pm

At the end of Somethings Are Meant to Be from Little Women when Beth says "Let me go now"

[TheSparklingDiamond2]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 3:11pm

Mary Poppins:

"Go and chase your dreams, you won't regret it. Anything can happen...if you let it."

Les Mis:

"And rain,"
"And rain,"
"Will make the flowers-..."
"Will make the flowers...

...grow."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 9:19pm

A Chorus Line
"Up a steep and very narrow stairway
It wasn't paradise, but it was home"

"Let me wake up in the morning
to find there is somewhere exciting to go"

Carousel
"I'll go out and make it
or steal it or take it
or die"

Little Shop of Horrors
"They say the meek are gonna get
what's comin' to 'em by and by"

Cats
"Look, a new day has begun."

Phantom
"It's over now, the music of the night."

Songs for a New World
"I'll never have the moon"

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
"Dear Pen Pal, I'm told where you live is really quite far.
Can you please send directions on how I can get where you are."

Once On This Island
"And Asaka accepted her
and held her to her breast."

Dreamgirls
"I turn my back and I find myself out of the line
You could have warned me but that would have been too kind"

"What gives you the nerve after all these years
to come here and think that I forgive you."

"One night only, words get in the way"

"I couldn't reach you, there were so many people in our way."

Falsettos
"Rumors fly and tales abound
Stories echo unground
Something bad is spreading.."

The Life
"I'm gonna tell you one more time
Go home
Greyhound took you for a ride
Forget your pride,
go home"

A Class Act
"And Bob went on
to a Wall Street job
And Dick to a law school degree
But Paris through the window
stayed with me"

[Allshowsrock]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 9:35pm

Well I am a big WICKED fan (yea i know, according to many that makes me a loser...but I believe its a wonderful show :)
but anyway, every time I see WICKED, the lyric "Every so often we long to steal, to the land of what might have been,but that doesnt soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in." that gives me chills
and the line "I'm not...its the Wizard who should be afraid...of ME!" always gets me, its such a turning point for Elphaba who at first admired the Wizard but then all of a sudden her world is turned upside down.

[GroversCornersGirl]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 9:46pm

Nice one TheSparklingDiamond2! Here are mine:

"...the world can change in just one burst of light, and what was right seems wrong, what was wrong seems right..."
~Les Miserables

"That's why I'm still out there singing. Like that bunny on TV with the battery, I just keep going and going and going. Chasing the music...trying to get home..."
~Jersey Boys

[philly03]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 9:59pm

Not particularly a lyric,
but when Norma Desmond returns to the Studio in Sunset Boulevard it gives me the chills...the anthem playing!

Also, the music right after "A Little Fall of Rain" in Les Mis when they carry Eponine off...actually that's pretty sad too!

Same with the EVITA one:
"Oh my daughter! Oh my son! Understand what I have done."

[felineofavenueb]

Posted: 11/16/07 at 11:54pm

"I can't believe he's gone. I can't believe you're going. I can't believe this family must die. Angel helped us believe in love, I can't believe you disagree. I can't believe this is goodbye." - Goodbye Love, Rent

"Sawyer! Think of Broadway, dammit." - Lullaby of Broadway (scene), 42nd Street

"The gift was ours to borrow" - What I Did for Love, ACL

"Why do I want him still? Why, when there's nothing there?" I Know the Truth, Aida

"Start by admitting from cradle to tomb isn't that long a stay" - Cabaret, Cabaret

"No backward glance, or my heart will break. Never look back..." - One More Kiss, Follies

"And if life were merely moments, then you'd never had you had one." - Moments in the Woods, ITW


...There's probably more, but those come to mind first.

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:50am

""That's why I'm still out there singing. Like that bunny on TV with the battery, I just keep going and going and going. Chasing the music...trying to get home..."
~Jersey Boys "

Yes!! Well actually for me it's that little moment between the end of that monologue and the beginning of who loves you.

Actually it's a lot of moments for me rather than lines. In Rent for instance RIGHT after "the powerblows!!" I just get this huge rush of excitement, especially when David Truskinoff is conducting, he yells this little "2-3-4!" before it goes.

Another moment that gives me chills it the note Raul Esparza hits in Company during Side by Side by Side when he sings "you bring the drinks AND I'll bring the posy" It's hard to explain but it's so magnificent.

There are a few lines from Rent that give me chills but I think most have been covered, some in Aida as well but I can't think of them off the top of my head. And finally in Spring Awakening when they sing "I'm gonna be your bruise"

[JRybka]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 10:18am

In Dame Judi Dench's version of Send in the Clowns from the Hey! Mr. Producer concert... When she says

"Well... Maybe Next Year"

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:46am

Oh and I also forgot

"One of these days someone will say, that boy will never stop." - One of these days, Jonathan Larson's Supurbia

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:51am

Forgot:

Wicked-"Who can say if I've been changed for the better? I do believe I have been changed for the better."

And I agree with the "She wouldn't look Jewish at all" one. That song just makes you go "woah" at the end. It's so smart.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:54am

Theres only us theres only this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
No other road no other way
No day but today

Rent

[yellibean2]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:26pm

Oh so many...

"Love is stupid and it bleeds
It satisfies my needs
...I think it's wonderful
Once, it was wonderful..."
-A New Brain

"Our love was pure and nothing else could be closer to God"

"You can't be the same boy I followed
Thought I'd always follow"
-Bare

I know pretty much every line from Being Alive has already been said, but the one that always gets to me in every version is:
"But alone is alone, not alive"

"And in the darkness when I'm blind with what I can't forget"

"I was half-convinced I'd waken
Satisfied enough to dream you"
-Sweeney Todd

"Damn my soul, if you must
Let my body turn to dust
Let it mingle with the ashes of the country"
-Assassins

"A person who likes to lie too much
I try too much to impress other people
Often my inferiors."

"The thing about explores is, they discover things that are already there."
-In Trousers

"The living was the prize
The ending's not the story"
-Elegies

"And still the bastard divorced me!"
-March of the Falsettos

Along with many, many more.

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:26 PM

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 3:52pm

"It wasn't paradise, but it was home."~ACL "At The Ballet"

[BillFinn]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 4:22pm

In Piazza, after "The Beauty Is Reprise," when Vicki Clark says plainly...


I know what I have to do.


Followed by that climatic music and dramatic blackout. It sent my pulse racing! When I went with my best friend, she cheered quietly and whispered "YAY! Now they're going to get married!" It just such a powerful line delivered forcefully, but subtly at the same time. Patti Cohenour was too meek and Christine Andreas was blah. Vicki did it just right. It's the turning point for Margaret Johnson.

[PhantomPhan789]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 4:39pm

I have quite a few & some are a bit cliche, but here goes....

"Miss Eyre, I tell you this because I want you to know. That I, with some luck. Without shame, without blame, or the curse of my name, might have been as good as you" - As Good As You from Jane Eyre

"You must never lose faith. You must never lose heart. God will restore your trust. And I know you're afraid. I'm as scared as you are. But willing yo be brave...brave enough for love." - Forgiveness from Jane Eyre

"Don't deny the obvious. Such an ugly boy." - Finale: I Imagine You're Upset from Bat Boy

"Though in your heart you'd love to stay and help them on their way, you've always known they must do it alone." - Spoonful of Sugar (reprise) from Mary Poppins

"His eyes get big. My face gets red. And I want to run away." - The Factory Girls/Come Up to My Office from Parade

"When it all comes true just the way you planned, it's funny but the bells don't ring." - A Quiet Thing from Flora the Red Menace

"It's a bit like being angry, a bit like being scared. Confused and all mixed up, and mad as hell." - Electricity from Billy Elliot

"God, I'm a dancer! A dancer dances!" & "All I ever needed was the music and the mirror and the chance to dance for you." - The Music and the Mirror from A Chorus Line

"Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?" - The Schmuel Song from the Last 5 Years

"If I hadn't believed in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all." - If I Didn't Believe In You from The Last 5 Years

"To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause" - The Impossible Dream from The Man of LaMancha

"Goodbye, Johanna. You're gone and yet you're mine. I'm fine, Johanna. I'm fine." - Johanna (Anthony/Sweeney duet) from Sweeney Todd

"We sang 'Yellow Bird' and 'Let's Go Fly a Kite" & "I sing 'Come to your senses. Defenses are not the way to go,' over and over and over till I got it right." - Why from tick, tick...BOOM!

Updated On: 12/31/07 at 04:39 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 4:47pm

"Don't let my sorrow make evil of me..."
-Caroline or Change

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 8:14pm

"If I'm lonely, doesn't matter,
I think there's worse than being lonely
There's people who freeze, who wait on their knees
And they don't know for what, they've just been forgot..."

from "I Hate the Bus", Caroline or Change

"Gonna slam that iron down on my heart
Gonna slam that iron down on my throat
Gonna slam that iron down on my sex..."

from "Lot's Wife", Caroline or Change

[Baiseur82]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:19pm

"I will not fail so you can be comfortable, Cathy
I will not lose because you can't win."


"If I didn't believe in you
I couldn't have stood before all of our friends
And said, "This is the life I choose-
This is the thing I can't bear to lose"

Both from "If I didn't believe in you" from The Last 5 Years.

Actually that entire song gives me chills BUT those two lines the most.