"Dust and Ashes" from The Great Comet audio or lyrics?

I don't see it on iTunes unfortunately

Sure, I've heard it...but only the two times I saw the show at ART. I could sing snatches of it for you, but I doubt that's very helpful. Sorry, I don't think I've run across any "unofficial" recordings of it yet, though IIRC the show's twitter account has made it clear that the cast has already been in the recording studio to record the song with Josh Groban's vocals, so there exists that recording, not yet released (made for promotional purposes, maybe?).

Is this how I die? Ridiculed and laughed at, wearing clown shoes
Is this how I die? Furious and reckless, sick with booze
How did I live? I taste every wasted minute
Every time I turned away from the things that might have healed me
How long have I been sleeping?

Is this how I die? Frightened like a child, lazy and numb
Is this how I die? Pretending and preposterous and dumb
How did I live? Was I kind enough and good enough? Did I love enough?
Did I ever look up and see the moon and the stars and the sky?
Oh, why have I been sleeping?

They say we are asleep until we fall in love
We are children of dust and ashes
When we fall in love, we wake up and we are a god, and angels weep
But if I die here tonight, I die in my sleep

All of my life I spent searching the words of poets and saints and prophets and kings
And now at the end, all I know that that I’ve learned is that all that I know is I don’t know a thing
So easy to close off, place the blame outside
Hiding in my room at night, so terrified
All the things I could have been but I never had the nerve; life and love I don’t deserve

So alright, alright, I’ve had my time
Close my eyes, let the death bells chime
Bury me or forget me, I just don’t care
Nothing's left, I’ve looked everywhere

Is this how I die? Was there ever any other way my life could be?
Is this how I die? Such a storm of feelings inside of me
And why am I screaming? Why am I shaking?
Oh, God, was there something that I missed?
Have I squandered my divinity, was happiness within me the whole time?

They say we are asleep until we fall in love
We are children of dust and ashes
When we fall in love, we wake up and we are a god, and angels weep
But if I die here tonight, I die in my sleep

They say we are asleep until we fall in love...
And I’m so ready to wake up now, I’ll wake up
Don’t let me down like this
I wanna wake up, God, don’t let me down like this
Please let me wake up now, don’t let me down like this
I’m ready, I’m ready to wake up

Now available to buy on iTunes and to listen here on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTyFbJBcL5c

yeah, thanks for that! I still hope they release a new album with Groban and Benton -- even if they just do it in the way Fun Home did, where they just had Emily Skeggs replacing Alex Socha (being that the rest of the Great Comet's cast is basically identical, it would make sense).

I also hear that they changed a lyric, Groban now says something about "bury me in burgundy"

Updated On: 7/15/16 at 06:17 AM

gypsy101 said: "yeah, thanks for that! I still hope they release a new album with Groban and Benton -- even if they just do it in the way Fun Home did, where they just had Emily Skeggs replacing Alex Socha (being that the rest of the Great Comet's cast is basically identical, it would make sense)."



As has been mentioned before, the Fun Home method wouldn't really make sense as Pierre and/or Natasha sing on virtually every track.

Aren't modern recordings done in such a way that the audio tracks of Soo and whoever played Pierre (forgive my ignorance) could just be replaced by new ones?

It's all done in isolation from each other, the orchestra and each player?

The cast isn't virtually the same. Denée Benton, Josh Groban, Gelsey Bell, Paul Pinto, Sumayya Ali, Courtney Basset, Erica Dorfler, Daniel Edmond, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Nick Gaswirth, Billy Joe Kiessling, Pearl Rhein, and Heath Saunders are the new cast memebers that did not appear on the Off-Broadway recording. It would make more sense to record a new album all together. And it will sell extremely well, thanks to Groban. Also, I adore this song. I didn't think I'd like Josh very much, but he hit the emotion so well, and his voice is pristine. And those lush orchestrations. It's on repeat.

Oh no, you're right! My bad! But even without them, that's still a ton of new cast members, even if most of them are ensemble.

Yeah, the best thing to do is to release a new recording. It may be just me, but the quality of the original isn't very good. I listen to it a lot and still love it, but I would love to have a recording as lovely and lush as this single.

Thanks for this!

Finally listened to this the other day- what a gorgeous song. Groban also sounds very good on it- I know that it was written for the ART run, but it fits his voice perfectly.