Powerful,Meaningful,Moving Lyrics — Page 2

Heh, I just happened to be listening to Is There Life After High School? while reading this thread...I'm sure there are a ton of quotes from that show you can use. "The things I learned in high school cannot be wished away, they made me what I am today."

Kid Inside from Is there Life After High School

we lose things,
and then we choose things.

Sunday in the Park with George

With so little to be sure of,
If there's anything at all.
If there's anything at all.
I'm sure of here and now and us together.
All I'll ever be I owe you,
If there's anything to be.
Being sure enough of you
Makes me sure enough of me.
Thanks for everything we did,
Everything that's past,
Everything's that's over too fast.
None of it was wasted,
All of it will last:
Everything that's here and now and us together!
It was marvelous to know you
And it isn't really through.
Crazy business this, this life we live in-
Can't complain about the time we're given-
With so little to be sure of in this world,
We had a moment!
A marvelous moment!

With So Little To Be Sure Of
Lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim

Currently, I get teary eyed listening to "Around the World" from Grey Gardens specifically. I can't find them but its the part that starts with

Around the world is what I call my wall of special things...

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Updated On: 4/11/07 at 10:02 AM

"The one thing I don't understand
is how you kept your poise
when life has infinite joys.
Your face, your voice,
rejoice! To have you back with me
is such a fine surprise.
I see the world through your eyes,
I taste lemon on my lips,
I marvel at the sailing ships of well dressed girls and boys.
And life, life has infinite joys.."

-William Finn, "Infinite Joy"

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"Beatuiful" from SITPWG
"The freak or won't, you toe the line/ you tell your soul 'just kill some time'/ Will it quit? It will until they don’t…/They’re not my home, not anymore/Not like they so were before/Still, I’ll split, and they’ll like…/Well, who knows?"- And then there Were None, Spring Awakening
"Go to sleep whatever you are" from The Apple Tree
Les Misérables...
and, I really liked "She who has all" from the Pirate Queen

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I reach,
like these paintings in the old tradition,
there's a figure reaching out in them like so.
And to me it is the most familiar tableau I know.
So much wanting something..
So much reaching for it...
So much wishing just to have one moment back...
So much being patient..
So much blind acceptance.
I know, no, I don't know.

Sidjones...i second "How Glory Goes". It splendidly puts to music my own musings about heaven. I love Audra McDonald's rendition of it!! It's just a gorgeous song.

One of my favorites:
Ragtime; Make Them Hear You
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/ragtime/makethemhearyou.htm

-if your doing this for a speech, think of shows where the lyrics are speaking to a group of people, like you will be.
J

Well, for the most part, I usually don't enjoy Schwartz's lyrics, but these seemed oddly appropriate for a graduation speech.

"We cannot know what occur.
Just make our journey worth the taking,
And pray we're wiser than we were
In the beginning."

From Children of Eden, "In The Beginning"

Never hold back your step for a moment
Never doubt that your courage will grow
Hold your head even higher and into the fire we go "
from the Scarlet Pimpernel

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Anything you do,
Let it come from you.
Then it will be new.
Give us more to see...

around the world
beyond the wall
before the haze rolls in
above the trees
into the clear
up where the clouds grow thin
across the sea
glistening with gold
i'll take the wind and soar...