Your Favourite Lyrics From Musicals — Page 2

I love the Anything Goes lyric quoted by Albin I also love this Dorothy Fields lyric from Sweet Charity ( Charity's Soliloquy);

While I really didn't begrudge it,
When I figured out my budget...

This makes me smile every time I play it!

"Success is like failure it's how you perceive it;
It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it"

- "It's a Hit!" Merrily We Roll Along

"I will never sleep, now my heart has been awakened
To feel the yearning for a single perfect touch
I can't afford to wait, or the magic will be taken
I don't want to lose it, there can never be too much

There are times I want to run, times I want to hide
Things I've left undone, things I cast aside
So many things to try, so many things denied
And all I know is sooner or later I wanted a chance now
Sooner or later, it's here I can dance now

Weightlessly free I'll be reborn if I only dare
Limitlessly there'll be no more boundaries anywhere"

- "Braver Than We Are", Dance of the Vampires

"When temptation comes to call, then the soul can lose its way
When the angels start to fall, only prayer can save the day"

- "Say a Prayer" Dance of the Vampires

"Is that just disgusting!
All greasy and gitty!
It looks like it's moulting
and tastes like...well pity
a woman alone
with limited wind
and the worst pies in London!"

Sweeney Todd

I always smile at "limited wind"

I'm listening to Defying Gravity right now... the lyrics are so easy to relate to, and they really stick. So do a lot of things in Seasons of Love... and a lot of other songs from Rent. And even though it's not really Broadway, the one on my signature from Billy Joel. Well, it is Broadway now because of Movin' Out, but Billy came first, so he definitely gets the credit.

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Gypsy:

"Everything's Comin' Up Roses"

Rent:

"A snob yet over attentive"
"Let's open up a restuarant in Santa Fe"
"Not in my back yard untensils, go back to China!"
"Life's too short, babe, time is flying, I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine"

Wicked:

"By my looks he won't be blinded"
"I wasn't born for the rose and pearl"
"I'm through with playing by the rules of someone elses game"
"Everyone deserves a chance to fly"

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"Don't dream too far. Don't lose sight of who you are...
...Every so often we long to steal to the land of what might have been.
But that doesn't soften. We ache, we feel when reality sets back in....
Don't wish, don't start. Wishing only wounds the heart"
~All from "I'm Not that Girl in Wicked

All of Defying Gravity. Espceially "And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free"

and..
"
It is I admit the tiniest bit
Unlike I anticipated
But I couldn't be happier
Simply couldn't be happier-well not simply...
Cause getting your dreams
it's strange but it seems
a little, well, complicated
There's a kind of a sort of a cost
There's a couple of things get lost
There are bridges you cross you didn't know that you crossed until you've crossed"
~Thank Goodness, Wicked

and most of "For Good"

"Another Day" from Rent has beautiful lyrics, as well as the "Finale," "On My Own," "Red and Black" and most other songs from Les Miz. BEing Alive from Company has really nice lyrics too.

Albin's choice of the "Anything Goes" lyric is odd. The very thought of this man at a "nudist party" in a studio sends shudders up and down my spine! If any one was born to be fully dressed it's Albin!

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"He says as we're undressing he admires Richard Nixon.
And I said "Are you a Republican?'
And he just laughed and I said 'bitch.'"- from Infinite Joy

"Don''t brush your hair, you're perfect
Don't start to cry.
There's not a guy, there's not a horse or zebra.
There's not a giant man who could love you the same as I.
Forget that giant man, he won't love you the same as I.
I'm not a giant man but I'll love you until I die." -March of the Falsettos

Ahh, it's been a William Finn day.

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"I chose and my world was shaken, so what?
The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
You keep moving on."

- Sondheim, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

These lyrics resonate in so many ways with me. They are words I live by.

For sheer smutty fun, you can't beat "But In The Morning, No" from DUBARRY WAS A LADY. And my other favorite is "Meat and Potatoes" from MR. PRESIDENT which is NOT one of Irving Berlin's finer moments.

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the song from Easter Parade called Im Steppin Out With My Baby, "If i seem to scintillate, Its because im on a date." i dont know why but i love the lyrics to it

OK here are some of mine:

"For out of what we live
and we believe
Our Lives Become
The Stories that we weave" (Lynn Ahrens, from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND)

"I have wings
And I can fly
You Teach Him Earth
And I'll Teach him sky" (Lynn Ahrens, from SEUSSICAL)

It's called
flowers wilt
It's called apples rot
It's called theives get rich and saints get shot
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot
OK, now you know ( Sondheim, from MERRILY...)

I chose and my world was shaken, so what
The choice may have been mistaken
the choosing was not" (sondheim, from SUNDAY IN THE PARK)




The Ahrens & Flaherty website

But not with trumpets!
There won't be trumpets...
Who
Needs
Trumpets?!
Just seemed to say we are all ordinary heros. Loved that concept.