Powerful,Meaningful,Moving Lyrics- Page 2

[gumbo2]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:21am

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."

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:35am

"Shipoopi!"

"Always look on the bright side of life"

and of course, "Look at her, she's Wicked! Get her!"

Aside from those obvious, I love the whole lyrics from Being Alive.

[Joelbeans]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 9:15am

Kid Inside from Is there Life After High School

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 9:22am

From South Pacific (Oscar Hammerstein):

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent 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!

[gonnapassmealaw]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 9:34am

we lose things,
and then we choose things.

Sunday in the Park with George

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 9:36am

Anything Sondheim

FOR GOOD from WICKED

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 10:02am

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...

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

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 10:48am

Are we a pair?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
And one who can't move

- "Send In The Clowns"
A Little Night Music


Words sound false
When your coat's too thin
Feet don't waltz
When the roof caves in
So if you kiss me
If we touch
Warning's fair - I don't care
Very much

- "I Don't Care Much"
Cabaret

Good night,
Good night
Sleep well
And when you dream
Dream of me
Tonight

- "Tonight"
West Side Story

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 10:55am

"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"

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 10:55am

"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"

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:26pm

"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

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:32pm

ohmygosh. those How Glory Goes lyrics... make me tear up. geez.

[canirollerskate]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:48pm

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.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:09pm

Pretty much all of the lyrics of "Those You've Known" From Spring Awakening really get to me, I always get chills when I listen to the song

[Papa_Burgundy_NY]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:17pm

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.

[Logainne]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:41pm

"The opposite of war isn't peace, its creation!!!"
....much of Rent- "no day but today"


God...everything Sondheim.
"Stars and Moon" from Songs for a new World...that whole song has such a powerful message behind it.

And of course the entirety of Spring Awakening.....as one who hates the tyrannical world of high school, the lyrics of "And Then There Were None" mean a lot to me.
And agreed..."All Thats Known" basically describes everything I feel about the world.

[bwaybud]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 2:06pm

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

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 2:16pm

All of the lyrics of Let Behind from Spring Awakening pull at my heart strings.

And I know it's not the greatest show buuuuuuuut:

And I'm borne high on these waves
Swept by the wind and alone
Oh, sail me away!
Carry me back to my home!
I'm tired, I've been torn
A cruel, wretched storm
Churns like a gale in my bones
Oh, sail me away!
Carry me back to my home!

And also, the lyrics of Right Before My Eyes are beautiful.

The lyrics of I Am Changing from Dreamgirls are so meaningful.

And I have to say that I love these lyrics as well:

There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today

Are You Still Holding My Hand from Bright Lights, Big City has absolutely beautiful lyrics.

[PirelisMiracleElixir]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 4:29pm

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"

[elphaba432]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 4:36pm

Everything from "For Good". I mean, when i first got the albumn (and hadn't seen the show yet) I was crying! Then after I saw the show and it made sense, I began to cry harder!
The lyric that is the most powerful, meaningful, moving lyric of the song for me is...
"You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart."

[mominator]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 4:49pm

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

[seaweedjstubbs]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 7:28pm

There's a road
We must travel
There's a promise
We must make
'Cause the riches
Will be plenty
Worth the risk
And chances that we take
There's a dream
In the future
There's a struggle

We have yet to win
Use that pride
In our hearts
To lift us up
To tomorrow

'Cause just to sit still
Would be a sin

I know where i'm going
And lord knows i know..
Where i've been
I Know Where I've Been - Hairspray

[just_me1981]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 8:04pm

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

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 8:10pm

I thought of another good one....we're doing this in our choir!

"In whatever time we have
For as long as we are living
We can face whatever comes
If we face now as one
I could make on my own
Let me know that I don't have to
No one really wants to be alone
In whatever we time have

If at times we are afraid
With so little to believe in
It's alright to be afraid
I will hold you in the dark
All we know for sure is this
Though the world could end tommorow
You and I will be together
In whatever time"


Updated On: 4/6/07 at 08:10 PM

[softershade]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 8:13pm

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...