GRIEF AND LOSS LYRIC STARTERSĀ
FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS AS YOU SEE FITĀ
Go Tonight from The Mad OnesĀ
āShe was sitting on the roof of her beat up car. Half singing, half laughing, half going to farāĀ
āShe was everything Iām not, my whole universeāĀ
āI was a footnote, a slim second verse but she was the chorus, the hook and the grooveāĀ
āWithout her there pushing, somehow I canāt moveāĀ
āSo I sit in the car that she left behind, sinking down in this void like a craterāĀ
āItās too late and itās just getting laterāĀ
āYou were mad to read, mad to drive!āĀ
āYou were Mad and so aliveāĀ
āI reach but youāre not thereāĀ
āTime expands, the beat goes on, you were mad, mad and now youāreā¦āĀ
āOver and over, your words to me echo, over and over as I try to let goā
āYour life is suspended in physics and time, every word you said seems like an unfinished rhymeā
āI sit in the vacuum you left beft behind and I sift through each phrase for an member, for a spark that will lightāĀ
āI was your orbit and you were my starāĀ
āI am left numb from the loop of these memoriesāĀ
Left Behind from Spring AwakeningĀ
āWere you really so blind and unkind to him?āĀ
āCanāt help the itch to touch, to kiss, to hold him once again. Now to close his eyes, never open themāĀ
āA shadow passed yearning for the fool it called a homeā
āAll things he never did are left behind, all the things his mama wished heād bear in mind and all his dad had hoped heād knowāĀ
āAll of the crying you wouldnāt understand, you just let him cry āmake a man out of himāā
āAll things he ever wished are left behindāĀ
āAll things he ever lives are left behind, all the fears that ever flickered through his mind, all the sadness that heād come to ownāĀ
Absolution from Bare: A Pop Opera
āPeople come to the church in times like these for answers but I have noneāĀ
āMost words seem to fall empty, but Iāll try. Itās a horrible thing that no one should have to go through, losing a friendāĀ
āYou know- or you should know that he is in a better placeā
āWeāll always ask ourselves if thereās something more that could have been done, itās natural.ā
āHe went to you for guidance, you hid behind a scree, knowing how much empathy might meanāĀ
āDo you know how much he loved? Did you know how much he cared?āĀ
āLost in the teachings was a boy so all alone and scaredā
āOur love was pure and nothing else brought me closer to godāĀ
No Voice from Bare: A Pop Opera
āThere will be tears today, but weāll get throughāĀ
āI Never found the words to say, I always thought weād talk some dayāĀ
āYou canāt begin to know the pain youāve causedā
āHow do I make sense of what Iāve gained and lostāĀ
āWhat a mess, a perfect mess left alone to sort it out In the sorrow, guilt, and rage, I keep coming back to doubtā
āIād like to start with just a-If we could take a moment-If maybe we were silent-or we had spoken-I tried to find the words to-Just the right quotation-But I must confess I came up emptyā
āHow did a simple love get so complicated?āĀ
āDays crawl by, I ask myself again should I have waitedāĀ
āIn a world thatās quick to judge, I will try to understandāĀ
In the Bedroom Down the Hall from Dear Evan Hansen
āYou said it never really fit you right and it itched too much but I think Iāll keep it, I should keep it ācause it still makes me think of you and that little boy I knewā
āI got you ninja turtle night lights for protection you used to say they kept the bad guys far awayāĀ
āAnything to make you happy anything at allāĀ
āWe went to battle every evening after dinner. I thought I knew some way that Iād get through to youāĀ
āWe fought a war where no one walked away a winner ācause every day you pulled a little more awayā
āYou try to give your kid the world give him everything youāve gotāĀ
āWhat if I gave all I could and I thought it was enough but I find that it was not?āĀ
āDid I let you down?āĀ
āWhat else could I do?āĀ
āEverything I ever did, I did it all for youāĀ
āI think Iāll wait another day to pack these boxes cause once Iām though Iām left with just one thing to do: rememberāĀ
What Would I Do from FalsettosĀ
āWhat would I do if I had not met you? Who would I blame my life on?ā
āOnce I was told that all men get what they deserve. Who the hell then threw this curve?āĀ
āThere are no answers but who would I be if you had not been my friend?āĀ
āWhen Iām having fun, youāre the one I wanna talk toāĀ
āWhere have you been? Where are you now?āĀ
āWho would I be if I had not loved you? How would I know what love is?ā
āGod only knows too too Iāll remember your faults. Meanwhile though, itās tears and schmaltz.āĀ
āIād do it again! Iād like to believe that Iād do it again and again and again!āĀ
āHow am I to face tomorrow after being screwed out of today?āĀ
āYes, Iād beg or steal or borrow if I could hold you for one hour moreā
āOnce I was told that good men get better with age, weāre just gonna skip that stageā
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom of the Opera
āYou were once my one companion, you were all that matteredāĀ
āYou were once my friend and father, then my world was shatteredāĀ
āWishing you were somehow here again, wishing you were somehow nearāĀ
āSometimes it seemed, If I just dreamed, somehow you would be hereāĀ
āWishing I could hear your voice, knowing that I never wouldāĀ
āDreaming of you wonāt help me to do all that you dreamed I couldāĀ
āPassing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental seem for you the wrong companions, you were warm and gentleāĀ
āToo many years, fighting back tears why canāt the past just die?āĀ
āNo more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years.āĀ
The Workings of The Heart(reprise) from FrankensteinĀ
āI tried to build a world for you where death would never touch our lives, and now my love has fallen to the fate that should be mineāĀ
āYour peace has come, youāll cry no moreāĀ
āLet all your pain and fears departā
āI will keep you safe inside the workings of my heartāĀ