Broadway songs about being powerless?

[Samantha.Clarke]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:52pm

Hey guys! I was wondering if you could think of any more songs that follow the theme of "powerless"?

So far I've thought of...

When Hope Goes - Spitfire Grill

Still Hurting - L5Y

With You - Ghost

What I Did For Love - Chorus Line

I Dreamed A Dream - Les Mis

Anatevka - Fiddler On The Roof

 

If you know something that would follow the theme, please let me know, it would mean the world to me!!

Thank you in advance :)

[ggersten]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:53pm

In The Heights:  Blackout - has the line "we are powerless"

And "Revenge" from Superman is about a multiple time nobel loser.

Updated On: 6/17/15 at 01:53 PM

[ChiTheaterFan]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 1:59pm

Will I?- Rent

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom

You Don't Know - Next to Normal

[kdogg36]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 4:11pm

"It Sucks to be Me" from Avenue Q

"21 Guns" from American Idiot

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:22pm

"What I Did For Love - Chorus Line"

I don't think this is about being powerless.  It's about the choices you make and where they take you.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:27pm

You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:39pm

Some Days Everything Goes Wrong - What Makes Sammy Run

[The Glenbuck Laird]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:49pm

You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:53pm

"Where Am I Going?" - SWEET CHARITY

"No Way To Stop It" -THE SOUND OF MUSIC

[RaiseYouUp]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 5:55pm

Soul of a Man from Kinky Boots fits into that category. 
Perhaps No Good Deed from Wicked does as well?

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:07pm

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - POTO
Learn to Live Without - If/Then
Nichts, nichts, gar nichts - Elisabeth
Confessions of a Vampire - Dance of the Vampires (Yes, the show was stupid, but the lyrics to that song kept pretty true to the German one.)
Days and Days - Fun Home
Edges of the World - Fun Home

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:10pm

""What I Did For Love - Chorus Line"
I don't think this is about being powerless.  It's about the choices you make and where they take you."

But also from Chorus Line, the song "Nothing" is about being powerless - as a student at the mercy of a terrible teaher. And then rising above it.

Also, "I'm not my Father's Son" from Kinky Boots....and to some degree "When I grow up" from Matilda.

Updated On: 6/17/15 at 06:10 PM

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:15pm

Yes, "Nothing" from A Chorus Line.  Also, "On the Willows" from Godspell - beautiful song.  Also, for comedy's sake - "I'm an Ordinary Man" from My Fair Lady...but it may not be the powerlessness you are looking for.

Updated On: 6/17/15 at 06:15 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:23pm

You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel

Except it's about the complete oppostite of being powerless, but whatever.

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:29pm

"You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
Except it's about the complete oppostite of being powerless, but whatever."

Ditto. Thank you.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 6:34pm

What Would You Do? -- Cabaret

Lucy and Jessie -- Follies

This Nearly Was Mine -- South Pacific

I'll Never Fall in Love Again -- Promises Promises

 

[team elphie]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 7:09pm

Perhaps No Good Deed from Wicked does as well?

"Maybe I'm Not that Girl?

 

[romain2]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 7:31pm

Edges of the World from Fun Home

[bluetuna]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 9:00pm

"God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)" - "Something Rotten!"

[verdigris]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 9:37pm

'This Little Girl' from Matilda

[jnb9872]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 10:25pm

"Mr. Cellophane" - CHICAGO
"Javert's Suicide" - LES MIS
"Halloween" - RENT
"Man Say" and "You Done Right" - RAISIN
Comically winning the hearts of the audience through powerlessness, "Never the Luck" - THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
And, comically subverting the trope, "I'm All Alone" from SPAMALOT

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 6/17/15 at 11:37pm

Gesthemane--Jesus Christ Superstar

[ramblingwreck97]

Posted: 6/18/15 at 12:51am

If I Cant Love Her- Beauty and the Beast

[Actriz2]

Posted: 6/18/15 at 12:54am

"Hey There (Reprise)/If You Win You Lose" from The Pajama Game.

Parts of "Almost Real" from the Bridges of Madison County, but not the entire song.

"The Moment Explodes" from If/Then.

In a more comical way, "The Diva's Lament" from Spamalot fits this category.

[singalongsong2]

Posted: 6/18/15 at 1:00am

Hard Knock Life from Annie

Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde