Powerful,Meaningful,Moving Lyrics

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:39pm

I'd definently say:

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:40pm

Have you heard of Stephen Sondheim?

I feel like I base my life on his lyrics.

[perfectliar]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:42pm

Not exactly brilliant, but some of my favorite lyrics:

I will not give up hope
I was hooked from the start
When I noticed your kind and your powerful heart

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:44pm

chop
Kill the pig pig pig
kill kill kill kill and make it bleed
get the blood blood blood ohh blood
Kill the pig make it bleed get the blood its all we need
Out for Blood

hehehe

[4getRegret]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:50pm

"Too young to take over
Too old to ignore"


^^Story of my life^^

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:56pm

"I chose, and my world was shaken
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not
You have got to move on"

[jv92]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:00pm

Wicked's lyrics are the perfect example of corny, cliched lyrics. Wanna get a real message? Read some Ebb or Sondheim.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:02pm

we'll ill be completely honest with you all......i have to write a graduation speach and i want to base it on some really WOW lyrics from a musical.....thats why im asking....so say the lyrics and the musical.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:02pm

jv92

wicked bashing is getting so Old

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:03pm

Wicked IS getting so old

Plus Schwartz is a terrible lyricist. Updated On: 4/5/07 at 09:03 PM

[jv92]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:04pm

Songanddanceman-
I don't care. When someone puts those lyrics in the category of powerful and meanigful I have to say something.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:07pm

To that person they may be powerful

[sidjones09]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:18pm

Is it warm?
Is it soft against your face?
Do you feel the kind of grace inside the breeze?
Will there be trees?

Is there light?
Does it hover on the ground?
Does it shine from all around or just from you?

Is it endless and empty,
And you wander on your own?
Slowly forget about the folks that you have known?

Or does rising bread fill up the air
From open kitchens everywhere?
Familiar faces far as you can see,
Like a family?

Do we live?
Is it like a little town?
Do we get to look back down at who we love?
Are we above?

Are we everywhere?
Are we anywhere at all?
Do we hear a trumpet call us and we're by your side?

Will I want, will I wish for all the things I should have done?
Longing to finish what I only just begun?

Or has a shining truth been waiting there,
for all the questions everywhere?
In a world of wondering suddenly you know,
And you will always know...

Will my mama be there waiting for me?
Smiling like the way she does and holding out her arms,
as she calls my name?
She will hold me just the same...

Only heaven knows how glory goes,
what each of us was meant to be.
In the starlight that is what we are...

I can see so far.

'HOW GLORY GOES' from Floyd Collins
by Adam Guettel

Updated On: 4/5/07 at 09:18 PM

[RuprechtJr.]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:41pm

No matter how many times I hear "How Glory Goes," I cry. Even if you don't know the story, these lyrics mean so much. I would also say that "Beautiful" from "Sunday in the Park with George" is very moving.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:03pm

"Alone is alone. Not alive."- BEING ALIVE

There are so many others but one of the most recent that really struck me as important and wonderful:
"Thought is suspect and money is their idol and nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their bible. But I know there's so much more to find just in looking through myself and not at them."...from SPRING AWAKENING

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:15pm

'We're not down on our knees, we're not praying
We're not asking you please, we're just saying:
Give us peace now and peace to hold on to
Don nobis, dona nobis

You worked six days and rested on Sunday
We can tear the whole mess down in one day
Give us peace now and we don't mean later
Don't forget you were once our creator
Dona nobis, Dona nobis

We've got quarrels and qualms and such questions
Give us answers, not psalms and suggestions
So if we can't have the world we desire
Lord, we'll have to set this one on fire!
Dona nobis, Dona nobis!"

Some of the best lyrics that came out of that time.
Bernstein was/is a fantastic lyricist. and Schwartz as well as Paul Simon wrote some beautiful lyrics for his Mass, which I think has some of the best musical theater lyric writing as well as music writing ever, barnone.

Updated On: 4/5/07 at 10:15 PM

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:23pm

There's this really beautiful Sondheim/Stein song called "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" that I think might have some inspiring and useful messages for your graduating class.

[gymnastdzb2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:24pm

"those you've pained may carry that still with them
all the same, they whisper all's forgiven.
still your heart says the shadows bring the starlight,
and everything you've ever been is still there in the dark night."
-Spring Awakening

also, the whole song "those you've known" is pretty amazing. and the harmonies are so beautiful!! love it.

[Laurhearts SA]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:28pm

I don't do sadness.
So been there.
Don't to sadness.
Just don't care. - Spring Awakening

[jv92]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 10:35pm

Here's an inspiring message. Make sure you wear a derby and have a cigarette hanging out of your mouth-

Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Give 'em a show that's so splendiferious (sp?)
Row after row will grow vociferious (sp?)
-Fred Ebb, Chicago, 1975

Honestly, if you want something inspiring and moving, How Glory Goes is a good choice, though I don't know how much a song about a man asking God what heaven is like will fit into a graduation speech. Maybe a funeral?
Our Time by Stephen Sondheim is a nice graduation song. Very moving.

[sidjones09]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:05am

I didn't even see the graduation speech post. I just saw the title of the thread and that was immediately the first song that came to mind. But I agree jv92, I wouldn't use those lyrics for a graduation speech. Although there is an interesting correlation with the lyrics between the afterlife and life after highschool. If you just read the lyrics with the new context in mind. Try it. It's very interesting. Still a little strange though.

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:20am

"Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.
Sometimes people leave you.
Halfway through the wood.
Others may decieve you.
You decide whats good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone."

I could go on forever with meaningful lyrics lol

[RevolutionaryCostume]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:22am

The summer's over but I'm still a girl
Cavorting in my carnival crown
From blossom to blossom my buzz like a bee
Then glance in the mirror and who do I see?
A middle-aged woman inhabiting me.
Another winter in a summer town."

My season ended a long time ago
But no one took the party tent down. .
The pink paper lanterns still twinkle in place
My young navy hero, his tender embrace
That sapphire blue ocean, oh how can I face
Another winter in a summer town?
Oh God. . Oh God. .
MYYYYYYY GGAAAWWWWDDDDDDD. .(creepiest note ever)

I get chills and a bit of teary-eyedness every time I hear those lyrics sung.

Great great song. . for a wonderful show.

~Jacob.

[misschung]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 12:56am

Its not broadway, but the lyrics to "The Man That Got Away," particularly sung by the one and only Judy brings tears to my eyes

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 4/6/07 at 1:04am

"I've heard it said
That people come
into our lives for a reason "

I'm not going to lie,these lyrics made me tear up the first time I heard them.