Specific short lines or lyrics that give you chills- Page 4

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:35pm

"I'm beautiful, yes I'm beatiful and I'M HERE"-Color Purple

"Hey Buddy, don't be afraid it won't be perfect, the only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be"-Company

and that whole interaction between Zach and Cassie during "One"

[K8eeyore]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:48pm

"You are young. Life has been kind to you. . . You will learn."
from SWEENEY TODD

Appeals to my inner pessimist, I guess.

[patti+bettysgirl]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 6:01am

A day of peace.
A day of pride.
A day of justice
We have been denied.
Let the new day dawn,
Oh, Lord, I pray...
We'll never get to heaven
Till we reach that day.
~Ragtime

Let them send their armies
I will never bend
I won't see you now 'till I surrender
~Sunset Boulevard

I was pretty
I was happy
I would love to...
at the ballet.
~a Chorus Line

When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too.
~Cats

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 7:16am

"Homosexuals.
Women with children.
Short insomniacs.
We're a teeny tiny band.
Lovers come and lovers go.
Lovers live and die fortissimo.
This is where we take a stand.
Welcome to Falsettoland."
--What Would I Do? from Falsettoland

[steven22]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 9:58am

for me..any lyrics in the song the mirror-blue night..in spring awakening

[SweetSoprano]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 10:09am

"A birdcage I planned to hang... I'll get to that some day. A birdcage for a bird who flew away.... around the world."
- Grey Gardens

"Now to close his eyes, never open them"
- Spring Awakening

"Tears without no comfort,
Screams without no sound.
Only darkness and pain,
The anger and pain,
The blood and the pain!
I buried my hear in the ground!
In the ground-
When I buried you in the ground."
- Ragtime

"Jamie is over and where can I turn?
Covered with scars I did nothing to earn
Maybe there's somewhere a lesson to learn
But that wouldn't change the past
That wouldn't speed the time
once the foundation's cracked
And I'm still hurting"
- The Last Five Years

"From deep within the tomb, a gentle light still shown
Showing me my past, as I ascended to the thrown
Certain in my heart that ancient wars must cease
The lovers death gave birth, to a reign of peace"
- Aida

"And I'd say "Daddy I would to"
Everything was beautiful at the ballet
Raise your arms and someone's always there
Yes, everything was beautiful at the ballet
At the ballet, at the ballet"
- A Chorus Line

[dshnookie]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 2:23pm

"..And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free"

"It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime..."

-both from Wicked

[Kristeliz]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 3:48pm

the last 5 years-- some of the lyrics just get me.

"How you could be
So certain that we
Had no chance at all"

"You could stay with your wife on her f-ing birthday"

Jesus Christ Superstar- Gethsemane

"Why, why should I die?"

"Why then am I scared, To finish what I started
What you started, I didn't start it"

Wicked
"Don't wish, don't start
Wishing only wounds the heart"

[Boq101]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 3:51pm

Bernadette's "Not a day goes by" from the Carnigie Hall Sondheim Concert. Just the first line gets me shaken.

[Ariella]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 3:55pm

"Dying in America to come into our own" and "one blaze of glory... I have to find" from Rent.

"I'll always be there... as frightened as you of being alive" from Company

[misschung]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 6:04pm

From Caroline or Change:

Slam go the iron, slam go the iron flat. Flat. Flat. Flat! Now, how bout that now that what Caroline can do!

It doesn't convey anything to see it typed out.

Also, the little instrumental bit just as the chorus sings the chorus to "Moon Change"

[thibodeaux]

Posted: 1/1/08 at 11:48pm

Last 5 Years: " 'Til there's no one left who has ever known us apart."

bare: "Father, we were so in love..."
(and, silly as it may be) "Our parents had it easier, the disco didn't move around!"

Caroline, or Change: Emmie's last soliloquoy.
"You bet I do, Noah. You bet."

[george95]

Posted: 1/2/08 at 1:16am

From RENT:
The heart may freeze
or it can burn
The pain will ease
if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment
as my last

From AVENUE Q:
If I were to go back to college
Think what a loser I'd be
I'd walk through the quad
And think "oh my God!"
These kids are so younger
than me.

from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA:
Know what I love best, Lotte said
Is when I'm asleep in my bed
and the Angel of Music
sings songs in my head. (sooo creepy!!)

From RENT:
Its not on the OBCR: but in the show after Angel dies and Maureen says "You were so much more original than any of us. You'd find an old tablecloth on the street and make it into a dress, and sure enough next week they'd be mass producing them at the Gap."

From WEST SIDE STORY:
We're no good, we're no good!
We're no earthly good,
Like the best of us is no damn good!

From LES MISERABLES:
The rain can't hurt me now.

Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:37am

Wow, so many...

Into the woods
-I'm not good, I'm not nice,
I'm just right.
I'm the witch.
You're the world.

-Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood.
Do no let it grieve you,
No one leaves for good.

Les Mis
-Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for

Pippn
-Rivers belong where they can ramble
Eagles belong where they can fly
(From the finale, when all the players sing it.)

Spring Awakening
-I will sing the song of purple summer.

(Also, all of "Those you've known." And "I don't do sadness." Basically, anything Moritz sings.)

1776
-How quiet, how quiet the chamber is
How silent, how silent the chamber is

Caroline or Change
-If you gotta do it Mama, go ahead and cry.
I ain't got no tears to shed for no dead white guy!

-They're strong but they're not strong like me!

-Listen girlie, we have learned.
Non-violence can get you burned!
(Probably for me the most chilling line ever.)
Updated On: 1/2/08 at 09:37 AM

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:58am

I have several, too. But the one that popped into my head immediately was from Ragtime. SweetSoprano listed the exact lyrics that get me. Audra singing "Your Daddy's Son", but more specifically the climax of the song starting from "Couldn't hear no music". WOW that always just really gets me...

Also, from Rent (most of these others have already said) "When your heart has expired!" Oh my... Also, both of the fights after the funeral. Mimi and Joanne vs Maureen and Roger. Then Mark and Roger. "Hey, for someone who's always been let down, who's heading out of town? For someone who longs of a community of his own, who's with his camera...alone?" Updated On: 1/2/08 at 09:58 AM

[knicknut]

Posted: 1/2/08 at 11:09am

Rent:
"Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive!"
"I'll cover you" (end of reprise)

Wicked:
"Bring me down"

Children of Eden:
"Where is the innocence we can't regain?"

JCS:
"Jesus!" (Heaven on their Minds)
"You have murdered me!" (Judas' Death)

[george95]

Posted: 1/2/08 at 9:26pm

Wow I thought I was the biggest RENT fan ever and this lyric "when your heart has expired" made me go back to the cd sleeve and find where it was from, and I couldnt believe that I NEVER heard or noticed that lyric before..........and I thought I knew every single word of the show by heart.

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 1/2/08 at 11:56pm

Yeah, truthfully the whole entire reprise of "I'll Cover You" just gets me. And then it goes straight into the fights after the funeral...wow. I love that part. But when Jesse L. Martin just hits that, "When your heart has expired"...woah...
Updated On: 1/2/08 at 11:56 PM

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 12:20am

oh man I completely forgot the I'll Cover You: Reprise. Jesse L Martin is amazing!

[aliciag]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:41am

It's definitely my favorite song. Chills every time!!!

[LostLeander]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:12am

In Epiphany, after "No, I'll never hug my girl to me - FINISHED"... the "Alright" gives me chills everytime. It may be my favorite spoken line in a song ever.

Also, Lansbury's spoken "What a shame" in "If He Walked Into My Life". Brilliant, heartbreaking.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:34am

From 110:
"Oh God don't let me live and die alone." from "Old Maid". Particularly the way Audra delivered it as she just got better and better. I was sobbing almost convulsively at the closing show.

From Chess:
Practically all of "Pity the Child" but especially:
"I never called to tell her all I'd done. I was only her son."
and "I never called. A crazy thing to do. Just in case she said who."

[lesmis]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:42am

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 - Les Mis


What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
Some of them we did, but most of them we didn't
And why I just don't know - Mamma mia

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:26pm

something i've noticed thats kind of interesting is that so many of the lines that give us the chills are foretelling of the story and probably wouldn't have such an impact if we didn't know the show.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 4:05pm

Wow, so many...

"Come back to bed, kid. Take me inside you. I promise, I won't lie to you."
"Just close the gate, I'll stand and wait. Jamie... Goodbye."
"If I hadn't believed in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all."
The Last Five Years

"And I thought, my God... I'll never have the moon."
Songs for a New World

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
"I am reaching, but I fall, and the stars are black and cold..."
"For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping, and tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake."
"Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more."
"Can it be you fear to die? Will the world remember you when you fall? Could it be your death means nothing at all? Is your life just one more life?"
Les Miserables

"Life goes on, but I'm gone, 'cause I die without you."
"Why does distance make us wise? You were the song all along."
"Because reason says I should have died three years ago."
"When your heart has expired..."
"Let's go eat--I'll just get fat. It's the one vice left when you're dead meat."
"You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends... but it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones."
"Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that it's the end and I'm alone?"
"Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?"
"It's over." [Collins]
Rent

"I think there's a time to come to New York, and a time to leave."
"Don't be afraid that it won't be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of, really, is that it won't be."
Company

"You should be loved by the one who supports you, always supports you, whatever you do. Yes, you should be loved in the way I love you." [That whole song, but especially these last lines.]
"Who would want to join this madness? Who would change my monogram? Who will be part of my circus? Who will love me as I am?"
Side Show

"But I want you to try, Joe. If you succeed I'll give you everything: all the light locked in this heart, all that's lost inside my soul."
"Lost in a daze... tell me, what am I still doing here? I should have vanished. I should be gone before you wake."
Piece

"I remember where I was when it happened."
"Yeah."
Lennon

"Elphaba! We are going to be together always! You can see houses flying through the sky... can't you see that?"
"There's a kind of, a sort of... cost. There's a couple of things get lost. There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed."
"It's not her; she had nothing to do with it. I'm the one you want. It's me. It's me!"
Wicked

"I love you, Alfred. Whatever happens, never forget that."
"There's nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart."
"Seize the night."
"Say a prayer to all the gods. Some are near, and some are far. Say a prayer to all the gods: Make us braver than we are."
Dance of the Vampires

"I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you... Mama, Mama, Mama!"
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

"Oh, God, don't let me live and die alone."
"Lizzie, don't go!"
"He said 24 hours! He said 24 hours!"
110 in the Shade

"Where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I told you so."
"She wouldn't look Jewish at all."
Cabaret

"And he touched me, and I let him love me. So let that be my story."
Spring Awakening

"No spirit could win me, no hope left within me... If I can't love her, let the world be done with me!"
"Told you so."
"Belle, look into my eyes. Belle, don't you recognize the Beast within the man who's here before you?"
Beauty and the Beast

"Let her go! Let her live, let her die on her own! We are all of us bruised and alone. Now we both will have nothing to hold..." [Well, that entire reprise, really.]
The Scarlet Pimpernel

"He'd say, 'Maggie, do you want to dance?' and I'd say, 'Daddy, I would love to.' Everything was beautiful at the ballet: raise your arms, and someone's always there..."
A Chorus Line

"Now that I've seen her, she's more than a name..."
and/or
"It's her or me, and it's me he must choose. I don't hate this girl, even so... it's her or me, it's a fight I can't lose. I can't live wondering where his heart is, now I have to know."
Miss Saigon

"How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do."
Taboo


And, the ultimate:
Raul's anguished cry at the end of The Normal Heart.

Updated On: 1/3/08 at 04:05 PM