YOUR Special Song- Page 3

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:32pm

YAY! Thank you, Mary Ethel!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:37pm

"Portrait of a Girl" from BARE:

Portrait of a girl
Canvas of Ages
The stages, hers
Demure and practiced beauty
Hold them all enthralled

Portrait of a girl
Object of woman
A pose and they
They says she's fairest of them all

Paint her in
Watching one color end and one begin
Brush away what's stray
Add a finishing touch
The rapture cold as a pearl
Now the portrait has captured the girl
Now the portrait has captured the girl

Portrait of a girl
Painted illusion
She play her part
She sees that she's a work of art

Paint her in
Watching one color end and one begin
Brush away what's stray
There's disguise in her eyes
Add shadows that dance across her skin
Hide the doubt that cries out within her
Stripped bare beneath all the layers
Would you recognize the girl (???)
Sought after trapped like a pearl
Now the portrait has captured the girl
Now the portrait has captured the girl

Daring you to fall
Fairest of them allPortrait of a girl
Canvas of Ages
The stages, hers
Demure and practiced beauty
Hold them all enthralled

Portrait of a girl
Object of woman
A pose and they
They says she's fairest of them all

Paint her in
Watching one color end and one begin
Brush away what's stray
Add a finishing touch
The rapture cold as a pearl
Now the portrait has captured the girl
Now the portrait has captured the girl

Portrait of a girl
Painted illusion
She play her part
She sees that she's a work of art

Paint her in
Watching one color end and one begin
Brush away what's stray
There's disguise in her eyes
Add shadows that dance across her skin
Hide the doubt that cries out within her
Stripped bare beneath all the layers
Would you recognize the girl (???)
Sought after trapped like a pearl
Now the portrait has captured the girl
Now the portrait has captured the girl

Daring you to fall
Fairest of them all

Music and Lyrics: Jon Hartmere Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo

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[Raggy Q poo]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:38pm

Thank you Mary Ethel. Me luvs some bananaphone!!!!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:40pm

you bet, Melissa!

Anybody else want to talk about their special song?

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:42pm

Make the Man love Me from A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:44pm

"Morning Glow" from Pippin. This song saved my life.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:47pm

"Make The Man Love Me" from A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN:

I must try to make the man love me
Make the man love me now
By and by I will make the man happy
I know how

He must see how badly I want him
Want him just as he is
And may I say that sure the man ask me
I'll be his

Can I tell the man
Just how dearly blessed we would be
AII the beauty I see so clearly
Oh, why can't he?

So I pray to heaven above me
Pray until day grows dim
For I'll wait to make the man love me
As I love him

For I'll wait to make the make love me
As I love him...


Music: Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics: Dorothy Fields


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[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:48pm

Thanks a million, Mary Ethel.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:50pm

"Morning Glow" from PIPPIN:

PIPPIN
MORNING GLOW, MORNING GLOW
STARTS TO GLIMMER WHEN YOU KNOW
WINDS OF CHANGE ARE SET TO BLOW
AND SWEEP THIS WHOLE LAND THROUGH
MORNING GLOW IS LONG PAST DUE

PIPPIN AND ALL
MORNING GLOW FILL THE EARTH
AH COME AND SHINE FOR ALL YOUR WORTH
WE'LL BE PRESENT AT THE BIRTH

OF OLD FAITH LOOKING NEW
MORNING GLOW IS LONG PAST DUE

ALL
OH, MORNING GLOW, I'D LIKE TO HELP YOU GROW

PIPPIN AND ALL
WE SHOULD HAVE STARTED LONG AGO AH

PIPPIN AND ALL
SO, MORNING GLOW ALL DAY LONG
WHILE WE SING TOMORROW'S SONG

NEVER KNEW WE COULD BE SO STRONG
BUT NOW IT'S VERY CLEAR

PIPPIN
MORNING GLOW IS ALMOST HERE

MORNING GLOW BY YOUR LIGHT
WE CAN MAKE A NEW DAY BRIGHT
AND THE PHANTOMS OF THE NIGHT
WILL FADE INTO THE PAST
MORNING GLOW IS HERE

PIPPIN AND ALL
AT LAST


Music and Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz

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[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:51pm

May I trouble you for one more? Far From The Home I Love, if you will.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:53pm

Oh now, this won't do, M_E. Now you're too cool since you have your Song thread to accept my private messages?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 5:55pm

Ok, Ok, Tiff--I'll change my settings--just for YOU ...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:00pm

When I'm in the mood for a true diva turn, it's "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from SUNSET BOULEVARD:

I don't know why i'm frightened
I know my way around here
The cardboard trees, the painted scenes, the sound here.

Yes a world to rediscover,
But I'm not in any hurry
And I need a moment.

The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways,
The atmosphere as thrilling here as always

Feel the early morning madness
Feel the magic in the making
Why everything's as if we never said goodbye.

I've spent so many mornings
Just trying to resist you
I'm trembling now
You can't know how i've missed you,

Missed the fairy-tail adventures
In this ever-spinning playground
We were young together.

I'm coming out of make-up
The lights already burning,
Not long until the camera's will start turning

And the early morning madness
And the magic in the making...
Yes, everything is as if we never said goodbye.

I don't want to be alone that's all in the past,
This world's waited long enough,
I've come home at last!

And this time will be bigger,
And brighter than we knew it.
So watch me fly, we all know i can do it...

Could i stop my hand from shaking?
Has there ever been a moment with so much to live for?

The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways,
So much to say not just today but always.
We'll have early morning madness.

We'll have magic in the making.
Yes, everything is as if we never said goodbye...
Yes!
Everything is as if we never said goodbye...


Music: Andrew Lloyd Weber
Lyrics: Christopher Hampton and Don Black


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[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:03pm

"Far From The Home I Love" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF:

How can I hope to make you understand
Why I do what I do,
Why I must travel to a distant land,
Far from the home I love.

Once I was happily content to be
As I was, where I was,
Close to the people who are close to me,
Here in the home I love.

Who could see that a man could come
Who would change the shape of his dreams.
Helpless now I stand with him,
Watching older dreams grow dim.

Oh, what a melancholy choice this is,
Wanting home, wanting him,
Closing my heart to ev'ry hope but his,
Leaving the home I love,

There where my heart has settled long ago
I must go, I must go, I must go,
Who could imagine I'd be wand'ring so
Far from the home I love

Yet there with my love, I'm home.


Music: Jerry Bock
Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick


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[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:18pm

When I'm in the mood for a good belly-laugh, there's nothing like Irving Berlin:

"The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball" from CALL ME MADAM:

I was born on a thousand acres of Oklahoma land
Nothing grew on the thousand acres for it was gravel and sand
One day father started digging in a field
Hoping to find some soil
He dug and he dug and what do you think?
Oil, oil, oil

The money rolled in and I rolled out with a fortune piled so high
Washington was my destination
And now who am I?

I'm the chosen party giver
For the White House clientele
And they know that I deliver
What it takes to make 'em jell
And in Washington I'm known by one and all
As the hostess with the mostes' on the ball

They could go to Elsa Maxwell
When they had an axe to grind
They could always grind their axe well
At the parties she designed
Now the hatchet grinders all prefer to call
On the hostess with the mostes' on the ball

I've a great big bar and good caviar
Yes, the best that can be found
And a large amount in my bank account
When election time comes 'round

If you're feeling presidential
You can make it, yes, indeed
There are just three things essential
Let me tell you all you need
Is an ounce of wisdom and a pound of gall
And the hostess with the mostes' on the ball

An Ambassador has just reached the shore
He's a man of many loves
An important gent from the Orient
To be handled with kid gloves

He can come and let his hair down
Have the best time of his life
Even bring his new affair down
Introduce her as his wife
But she mustn't leave her panties in the hall
For the hostess who's the hostess with the mostes' on the ball

[Encore:]
I've been highly complimented
And I thank you what is more
You'll be damned well represented
By your new ambassador

For my one ambition is to make them fall
For the hostess with the mostes' on the ball

In the handbag that I'll carry
There's a precious little note
To their highnesses from Harry
Introducing me he wrote:
"I'll appreciate a favor large or small
For the hostess with the mostes' on the ball"

There'll be no mistakes, I've got what it takes
To make friends across the sea
I'll make being smart an important part
Of my foreign policy

I'll cement our good relations
When I give my first affair
There'll be special invitations
To the Duke and Duchess there
Who's already written asking them to call

Not the priestess with the leastes'
But the hostess who's the hostess with the mostes' on the ball!


Music and Lyrics: Irving Berlin

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[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:21pm

No giggles now

When my wife & I were married, our wedding song was that old Wildhorn chestnut "This Is The Moment"

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 6:27pm

"This Is The Moment" from JEKYLL & HYDE:

This is the moment!
This is the day,
When I send all my doubts and demons
On their way!

Every endeavor,
I have made - ever -
Is coming into play,
Is here and now - today!

This is the moment,
This is the time,
When the momentum and the moment
Are in rhyme!

Give me this moment -
This precious chance -
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last!

This is the moment,
When all I've done -
All the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Become one!

This is the day -
See it sparkle and shine,
When all I've lived for
Becomes mine!

For all these years,
I've faced the world alone,
And now the time has come
To prove to them
I've made it on my own!

This is the moment -
My final test -
Destiny beckoned,
I never reckoned,
Second Best!

I won't look down,
I must not fall!
This is the moment,
The sweetest moment of them all!

This is the moment!
Damn all the odds!
This day, or never,
I'll sit forever
With the gods!

When I look back,
I will always recall,
Moment for moment,
This was the moment,
The greatest moment
Of them all!


Music: Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse


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[Raggy Q poo]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:03pm

The song from Cabaret perhaps you could post...I don't know what it's called so it might be hard to find...I am singing it right now to myself but I haven't a clue what its called.

And maybe the song "Age of Aqaurais" (sp) from Hair....thanks

[thebestshowshavetransvestites]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:12pm

The reprise of La Vie Boheme in RENT. "Let he among us without sin be the FIRST to condemn la vie Boheme" is so uplifting in my mind. Woot for me...?

[elphieisperky]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:15pm

As long as you're mine, wicked. And on my own, les miz.

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:41pm

Definitley, You can't stop the Beat.


You can't stop an avalanche as it races down the hill
You can try to stop the seasons, girl, but you know you never will
And you can try to stop my dancing feet, but I just cannot stand still!

'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round
And my heart's keepin' time to the speed of the sound
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
'Cause you can't stop the beat

Ever since the whole world began
A woman found out if she shook it, she could shake up a man
And so I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today
'Cause you can't stop the motion of the ocean or the sun in the sky
You can wonder, if you wanna, but I never ask why
And you can try to hold me down, but I'll spit in your eye and say
That You Can't Stop the Beat!

Tracy: Whaddya have to say, Penny?
Penny: I am now a checkerboard Chick!

You can't stop the river as it rushes to the sea
You can try to stop the hands of time, but you know it just won't be!
And if they try to stop us, Seaweed, I've got the n double a .n.p

Cause the world keeps spinnin round and round
And my heart's keepin time to the speed of sound
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
Cause you cant stop the beat!

Ever since we first saw the light
A man and woman like to shake it on a Saturday night
So I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today
Cause you cant stop the motion of the ocean, or the rain from above
you can try to stop the paradise were dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay
Cause you cant stop the beat!

Tracy's Mom: Tracy, I have a little something to add if you don't mind

You can't stop my happiness, cause I like the way I am
And you just can't stop my knife and fork when I see a Christmas Ham!
And if you don't like the way I look, well, I just dont give a da**!

Cause the world keeps spinnin round and round
and my hearts keepin time to the speed of sound
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
Cause you cant stop the beat

Ever since this whole world began
A woman found out if she shook it she could shake up a man
So I'm gonna shake and shimmy it the best that I can today!
Cause you can't stop the motion of the ocean or the sun in the sky
You can wonder, if you wanna, but I never ask why
And you can try to hold me down, but I'll spit in your eye and say
That you can't stop the beat!

Tracys Mom: Wilbur, be a dear. Fetch some oxygen...now!!

Seaweeds Mom: Step aside, Miss. Buttercup! It's time to wrack this mutha up!

Oh, Oh, Oh
You can't stop today [No!]
As it comes speeding 'round the track [oooh, child yes!]
Yesterday is history [be gone!]
And it's never comin back! [Look ahead, cause...]
Tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don't know white from black [Yeah!]

'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round
And my heart's keepin time to the speed of sound
I was lost til I heard the drums, then I found my way
'Cause you cant stop the beat!

Ever since we first saw the light,
A man and woman like to shake it on a Saturday night
So I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today!
Cause you cant stop the motion of the ocean, or the rain from above
They can try to stop the paradise we're dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay
You can't stop the beat!

Aah, aah, aah,
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh ahh
Come on you Vantussles go and shake your fanny muscles!!
We can't!
Yes you can!
No we can't!
Yes you can!
Yes we can!
You cant stop the beat!

Ever since we first saw the sign
It seems Vantussle girls are always tryin to be someone
But now we're gonna shake and shimmy it and have some fun today!
Cause you can't stop the Motion of the ocean or the rain from above
You can try to stop the paradise were dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay!
Cause you cant stop the beat!
You cant stop the beat
You cant stop the beat
You cant stop the beat!!


and there is this Italian song, called "Nel Cor, Piu Non Mi Sento." And here is the rough translation

In the more I do not feel myself to shine the youth, cagion of mine I torment, love, the guilt is you, He chases me, I stimulates me, He pinches, chews to me; What is the cause of my torment? mercy, mercy, mercy! love is a sure one that, than disperer it makes me.

Basically, guy likes this girl, he teases her, touches her, bites her, and she's all like "What's up with this?" and it's love that is the cause of all her torment.

I hate men...

[lizheartsu]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:51pm

defying gravity/wiz and i/for good-wicked
take me or leave me-rent
on my own-les mis

singing these songs makes me happy, especially for good with my friend!

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 9:02pm

Not a big wicked fan, but Defying Gravity was my pre-College Interview music. There's something special about Wig in a Box and I Am What I Am.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 9:47pm

hm.... 'what you own' or 'one song glory' always makes me feel better.

[Falsettoland]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 12:20am

My number one song for empowerment...

Some People - Gypsy