Any Three Favorite Musical Lyrics

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:31pm

It doesn't have to be funny, it doesn't have to be dramatic or even meaningful but what are three of your favorite Musical lyrics?


"There's people who freeze
While they wait on their knees
and they don't know for what
and they've just been forgotten,
I ain't waitin no more..." -Caroline or Change

"Flushed and Rushed and Razzle-Dazzled" - Pippin

"It's the fragment, not the day.
It's the pebble, not the stream.
It's the ripple, not the sea.
Not the building but the beam,
Not the garden but the stone,
Not the treaty house,
Someone in a tree." - Pacific Overtures

[Patronus]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:37pm

"Will I lose my dignity. Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?" - Rent

"And thus it didn't matter when they chuckled at my hue, I was 10, I was blue, and I knew." - Weird Romance

"My father's a homo, my mother's not thrilled at all. Father homo, what about chromo-sones? Do they carry? Will they carry? Who's the homo now? My father says that one day I'll grow up to be President, and that ideas not so wild. I don't live lead the life of a normal child." - March of the Falsettos

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:18pm

"We'll not discriminate great from small.
No, we'll serve anyone -
Meaning anyone -
And TO anyone -
At all!" ---"A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd


"Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career.
But where are the clowns?
They're ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year." ---"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music



"The sun comes up -
I think about you.
The coffee cup -
I think about you.
And do they know
It's like I'm losing my mind?" ---"Losing My Mind" from Follies


I wonder why I won the cast award entitled, "Stephen Sondheim's Lover" Award? :)

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:19pm

"Some people sit on their butts,
Got the dream--yeah, but not the guts!"-'Some People'~Gypsy

"You take one road,
You try one door,
There isn't time for any more.
One's life consists of either/or.
One has regrets
Which one forgets,
And as the years go on."-'The Road You Didn't Take'~Follies

"Her Pad is to write in
and not spend the night in."-'A Secretary is not a Toy'~How to Succeed...Trying

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:32pm

"Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?"- RENT

"Now I know where I belong, a live of taste and class, with culture and sophistication...pouring out my ASS!"- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

"Look at me one last time, and don't forget what you see. One more kiss, and say good bye..."- Miss Saigon

Updated On: 7/24/05 at 10:32 PM

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:38pm

New post, so I can say three NEW ones, right? Thanks!

"I'm his December bride.
He's father - he knows best.
Our kids watch 'Howdey-Doodey'
While the sun sets in the west." ---"Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors


"Beyond that road, beyond this liftime,
That car full of hope will always gleam
With the promise of happiness and the freedom he'll live to know
He'll travel with head held high just as far as his heart can go.
And he will ride -
Our SON will ride -
on the wheels of a dream!" ---"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime


"FREDRIK: A sea of whims that I submerge in.
Yet so lovable in repentice.
Unforutunatly still a virgin,
But you can't force a flower -
DESIREE: Don't finish that sentence.
She's monstrus!
FREDRIK: She's frightened!
DESIREE: Unfeeling!
FREDRIK: Unversed!
She'd strike you as uninlightened.
DESIREE: No, I'd strike her first!" ---"You Must Meet My Wife" from A Little Night Music

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:42pm

Funny - I was JUST thinking about this other night.
I agree with an earlier poster who said:

"We'll not discriminate great from small
No we'll serve anyone
Meaning anyone
And to anyone
At all"
-- "A Little Priest"Sweeney Todd

"You've got to be taught
To be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six
Or seven
Or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught."
-- "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught," South Pacific

And my all time favorite just for the rhymes and sheer cleverness:

"You had to ruin it
This plot has got a lot of deja vu in it
Familiarity
And in this case we both know what that breeds
So if you wish official pardoning
You better do a little gardening
You know you needn't be so generous with your seeds.
Your fertile lies don't fertilize
It needs work."
-- "It Needs Work", City of Angels

I know it asks for three, but my runner up:

"And then from out of the bluie
And without any guide
You know what your decision is
Which is not to decide
You'll just leave him a clue
For example: a shoe
And then see what he'll do
Now it's he and not you
Who is stuck with the shoe
In a stew
In the goo
And you've learned something too
Something you never knew..."
-- "On the Steps of the Palace" Into the Woods

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:04pm

I promise I am not a "Wicked" crazy. But:

"And just to clear the air,
I ask forgivenes
for the things I've done
you blame me for.

But then I guess we know there's blame to share,
and none of it seems to matter anymore."

~Wicked~
___________________________________________________

"As for me
I can see
I was meant to rejoice.
In the round
vibrant sound
of my own voice."

~The Apple Tree~
___________________________________________________

Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find,
no one's really color-blind.
Maybe it's a fact we all should face.
Everyone makes judgments...
based on race."

~Avenue Q~

Updated On: 7/24/05 at 11:04 PM

[Act4ever]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:07pm

I can't think of 3. But one of my favorites (rhyme wise) "...how many years my heart has waited - who knew love could be so caffinated" -- Taylor the Latte Boy

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:07pm

"And so it must be
And so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter
And those who fall
Must pay the price." --Les Miserables

"Don't we get to be happy, Cathy?
At some point down the line
Don't we get to relax
Without some new tsuris
To push me yet further from you." --The Last 5 Years

"Being on an elevator
When somebody shouts,
'Hold the door!' Oh yeah.
NO! Schadenfreude
F*** you lady that's what stairs are for!" --Avenue Q

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:55pm

I'm not about to type them all out, but all of my favorite lyrics come from these shows:

Sunday in the Park with George
Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music
Pacific Overtures
Into the Woods
Company
Follies
The Last 5 Years
Rent

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:17am

"And though I'll think of you, I guess
until the day I die
I think I miss you less and less
as every day goes by..."
-Sweeney

"Have a Goldstone, Mr. Eggroll"
-Gypsy

"The choice may have been mistaken,
the choosing was not..."
-Sunday in the Park With George

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:18am

"beacuse i was born too soon and i started too late...thats why"
-gypsy of course

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:17am

off the top of my head...

"i can't control my destiny. i trust my soul, my only goal is just to be." -- rent

"why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory when single frames from that one magic night forever flicker in close-up on the 3-D IMAX of my mind? That's poetic... That's pathetic." -- rent (one of my most favoritist songs ever!!)

"don't dream it. BE it." -- rocky horror

there's so many more, so i just took the first three i thought of...

Updated On: 7/25/05 at 03:17 AM

[Patronus]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:39am

I am bumping this thread since a similar thread was started today.
Updated On: 9/6/05 at 11:39 AM

[SkierRob02]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:22pm

"I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had, Someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you" --- Rent


"You're a hotdog, but you better not try to hurt her, Frank Furter" --- Rocky Horror

[freeadmission]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 4:49pm

"Damn, damn, damn, DAMN! ... I've grown accustomed to her face."
~if-you-don't-know-what-this-is-from-you-don't-deserve-to-be-a-musical-theatre-fan.

"We build a treehouse,
I keep it from shaking,
A little more glue ev'ry time that it breaks.
Perfectly balanced,
Then I start making
Conscious, deliberate mistakes..."
~ "Nobody Needs To Know", The Last Five Years

"Let the moment go.
Don't forget it for a moment though.
Just remembering you've had an 'and'
When you're back to 'or'
Makes the 'or' mean more
Than it did before."
"Moments In The Woods", Into the Woods

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 4:54pm

Who needs Albert Schweitzer when the lights 'er low

Why did you do it, boy
Not just destroy
The pride and joy
Of Illinois
But all the USA

The average unmarried female, basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract