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

[Wick3]

Has anyone listened to "Dust and Ashes" from the Great Comet? I just learned from another thread that it was specifically written for Pierre to sing as a ballad when the Great Comet was performed at ART. I only got to see this show at the Kazino tent in midtown Manhattan 2 years ago so I sadly did not hear it. 

I was just wondering whether there is an audio of Scott Stangland (who starred as Pierre when Great Comet was at ART) singing it out there in the web. 

[gypsy101]

I don't see it on iTunes unfortunately

[Wick3]

gypsy101 said: "I don't see it on iTunes unfortunately"

it's not part of the off-broadway cast recording since it was never performed off-bway either :/ I wasn't sure if Scott Stangland maybe sang it at a bar or maybe one of the ART promos had it. 

 

[aimeric]

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?).

[buhbuhbilly]

You don't recall that correctly, i'm afraid - though there will be a new cast recording with this song and other new material

[gypsy101]

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

[Wick3]

Thanks for this gypsy!!!!

Wow he wears clown shoes?!? Either way, I look forward seeing Groban sing this ballad this fall! :)