“Merrily We Roll Along” Starter Sentences
Yesterday is done.
How did you ever get to be here?
Twenty years ago, who’d have guessed we’d be standing here?
It began when I tasted communion wine.
Why can’t it be like it was?
I don’t know who we are anymore and I’m starting not to care.
Friendship is like a garden. You have to water it, and tend it, and care about it.
Nothing permanent has happened, just a temporary kink.
Never knew how much I missed you ‘til now.
Old friends shouldn’t care if you’re wrong.
Now it’s time to start growing up.
Every road has a turning, that’s the way you keep learning.
Don’t you see we can have it all?
Life is knowing what you want.
You’re somehow a part of my life and you won’t go away.
Where’s the day I’ll have started forgetting?
You’ve got to be somewhere where there’s nothing to remind you.
Now you know: life is crummy.
Best thing that ever could have happened!
You may have missed one road but there’s plenty more to follow.
Don’t say it – you’ll jinx it!
We had this good thing going.
And if I wanted too much, was that such a mistake at the time?
We’re opening doors, singing “here we are!”
They’re slamming the doors, singing “go away!”
That faraway shore’s looking not too far!
That faraway shore’s farther every day.
We’ll all get together on Sunday.
I’m having a breakdown!
I don’t perform except at dinner.
We’re the names in tomorrow’s papers.
It’s our time, breathe it in!
What are you doing up on the roof?
I have to tell all the people who stay over to always wake me whenever they think I’m wonderful.
You’re wonderful. Sincerely wonderful.
If I didn’t have music, I’d die.
Nothing’s ever going to be the way it was, not ever again.














