I am a Broadway Baby.
I think there are others out there who are too. So here in no particular order, are lyrics from Thirteen Musicals that have touched my life. Guess at them. I'm looking for the song and the show. If you knew it, tell me--also tell me what favorites of yours I'm missing (The answers will be posted in a few days.)
1) "Betcha he reads, Betcha she sews,
Maybe she's made me a closet of clothes
Maybe they're strict, as straight as a line
Don't really care, as long as they're mine"
2) "I know a place where dreams are born
And time is never planned
It's not on any chart
You must find it with your heart"
3) "May you be like Ruth and like Esther
May you be deserving of praise.
Strengthen them Oh Lord
And keep them from the stranger's ways"
4) "This is my Quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far"
5) "Touch me.
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun"
6) "I look handsome
I look smart
I am a walking work of art"
7) "Floating, Falling
Sweet intoxication
Touch me, Trust me,
Savor each sensation
Let the dream begin
Let your darker side give in"
8)"A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere
Or a catclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair
But no, you sent us Congress!
Good Gd sir, was that fair?"
9) "And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul to see what I had inside
And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul and I tried. I tried."
10) "I am, nothing, you are wind and water and song
Jodie, tell me Jodie how I can earn your love.
I would swim oceans
I would move mountains
I would do anything for you"
11)" And I know, it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although, I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him..."
12) "The heart may freeze, or it can burn
the pain will ease, if I can learn
There is no future, there is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us, there's only this
Forget regret or life is yours to miss."
13) "Something has changed within me.
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game"
I realize in two of them the title is in the lyric, but what the heck.
Good luck!