Tangled The Musical Lyrical Sentence Starters
Feel free to change pronouns as needed.
“Once a beautiful queen and noble king, ruled a city upon a hill.”
“They had a baby well on the way, but then one day, her royal highness took deathly ill.”
“And as her sickness grew graver, and nothing could save her, a sage told a legend of old.”
“Only a story sire, a myth! But maybe…”
“When the world was begun, a drop of sun, fell to earth and became a flower. Instead of giving off a perfume, its golden bloom glows with magical healing powers!”
“The king demanded his guard.”
“Find it now! No holds barred! And the queen’s final death bell has tolled.”
“Now the tale was true, for indeed it grew!”
“Hidden by a twisted old crone who for centuries alone, kept the secret of what it could do.”
“Flower, gleam and glow, let your power shine.”
“Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine, what once was mine.”
“Up they shoveled it, and with flower in hand, back they rode to the desperate king.”
“The sage has brewed the leaves in a tea and instantly, cured her highness of everything!”
“And on that very same morn, a sweet princess was born.”
“And her hair was a sight to behold!”
“And their joy was rare, but guess who was there.”
“Hiding in the nursery that night, to make use of the light, shining bright in the princess’s hair.”
“Flower, gleam, and glow, let your power- NO!”
“But the magic left when she cut off a strand, so instead the lady took matters in hand.”
“Eighteen years have gone by. How fast they fly!”
“Still the princess has not been seen.”
“And every year the day she was born, the people mourn. No one more than the king and queen.”
“Still every year on that night, we set lanterns alight, and we pray she’ll return to the fold.”
“Seven a.m., the usual morning lineup!”
“Start on the chores and sweep ‘till the floor’s all clean.”
“Polish and wax, do laundry, and mop and shine up.”
“Sweep again, and by then it’s like 7:15.”
“And so I’ll read a book or maybe two or three!”
“I’ll add a few new paintings to my gallery.”
“I’ll play guitar and knit and cook and basically, just wonder when will my life begin?”
“Then after lunch, it’s puzzles and darts and baking.”
“Paper mache, a bit of ballet and chess!”
“Pottery and ventriloquy, candle making.”
Then I’ll stretch, maybe sketch, take a climb, sew a dress!”
“And I’ll reread the books if I have time to spare.”
“I’ll paint the walls some more, I’m sure there’s room somewhere!”
“And then I’ll brush and brush and brush and brush my hair.”
“Stuck in the same place I’ve always been, and I’ll keep wanderin’ and wonderin’
And wonderin’ and wonderin’ when will my life begin?”
“And tomorrow night the lights will appear.”
“Just like they do on my birthday each year.”
“What is it like, out there where they glow?”
“Now that I’m older Mother might just, let me go.”
“You want to go outside?”
“Look at you, as fragile as a flower!”
“Still a little sapling, just a sprout.”
“You know why we stay up in this tower.”
“That’s right, to keep you safe and sound, dear.”
“Guess I always knew this day was coming, knew that soon you’d want to leave the nest.”
“Shh, trust me, pet, Mother knows best!”
“Mother knows best, listen to your mother.”
“It’s a scary world out there.”
“Mother knows best, one way or another, something will go wrong, I swear!”
“Ruffians, thugs, poison ivy, quicksand, cannibals and snakes, the plague!”
“Also large bugs, men with pointy teeth and stop, no more, you’ll just upset me!”
“Mother’s right here, Mother will protect you.”
“Darling, here’s what I suggest, skip the drama, stay with mama. Mother knows best!”
“Go ahead, get trampled by a rhino!”
“Go ahead, get mugged and left for dead!”
“Me, I’m just your mother, what do I know?”
“I only bathed and changed and nursed you.”
“Go ahead and leave me, I deserve it!”
“Let me die alone here, be my guest.”
“When it’s too late, you’ll see, just wait.”
“Take it from your mumsy, on your own, you won’t survive.”
“Sloppy, under-dressed, immature, clumsy, please, they’ll eat you up alive!”
“Gullible, naive, positively grubby, ditzy and a bit, well, hmm, vague.”
“Plus, I believe, gettin’ kinda chubby. I’m just saying 'cause I love you!”
“Mother understands, Mother’s here to help you.”
“All I have is one request.”
“Don’t ever ask to leave this tower again.”
“Oh, I love you very much, dear.”
“Don’t forget it, you’ll regret it, Mother knows best!”
When Will My Life Begin (Reprise):
“I’ve got my mother’s love, I shouldn’t ask for more.”
“I’ve got so many things I should be thankful for.”
“Yes, I have everything, except, I guess, a door.”
“Perhaps it’s better that I stay in.”
“But tell me, when will my life begin?”
“I’ve swiped a dozen treasures, robbed a hundred vaults, left a million ladies needing smelling salts!”
“But with your stolen gold, and stolen hearts, my bad boy cred is off the charts.”
“You see my posters around, I bet you’re a fan.”
“We gave him our protection!”
“We offered him our trust!”
“He ran with our tiara, and left us in the dust!”
“And when we catch that double-crossing snake, we’ve got some bones to pick, and some bones to break!”
“We’re gonna rip him to bits, as soon as we can.”
“The man is public menace number one, and 2! 5! 8! And 10!”
“But now at last we’ve got him on the run, that is at last, again.”
“There’s nobody who’s bolder, nobody as fine.”
“There’s no-one with a smoulder half as good as mine!”
“You’ve gotta love the way his trousers fit, plus-”
“Hold that thought girls… gotta split!”
“He got the gleamiest teeth, the evenest tan.”
“Nobody’s ever caught me!”
“Cause watch out when we do.”
“We’ll hang him and we’ll shoot him, a guillotine or two.”
“He’s like the most sought after man alive!”
“But not for long once we arrive you’re gonna pay for your crimes.”
“At least that’s the plan!”
“We’ll pound his face to a pulp, as flat as a pan!”
When Will My Life Begin (Reprise 2):
“Look at the world so close, and I’m halfway to it!”
“Look at it all so big, do I even dare?”
“Look at me there at last!”
“Just smell the grass! The dirt!”
“Just like I dreamed they’d be!”
“Just feel that summer breeze, the way it’s calling me.”
“For like the first time ever, I’m completely free!”
“I could go running, and racing, and dancing, and chasing, and leaping, and bounding.”
“Hair flying, heart pounding!”
“And splashing, and reeling, and finally feeling!”
“That’s when my life begins!”
“I’m malicious, mean and scary!”
“My sneer could curdle dairy, and violence-wise, my hands are not the cleanest.”
“But despite my evil look, and my temper and my hook, I’ve always yearned to be a concert pianist.”
“Can'tcha see me on the stage performin’ Mozart?”
“Tickling the ivories 'til they gleam?”
“Yep, I’d rather be called deadly, for my killer show-tune medley”
“Thank you! 'Cause way down deep inside I’ve got a dream.”
“See, I ain’t as cruel and vicious as I seem!”
“Though I do like breaking femurs, you can count me with the dreamers.”
“Like everybody else, I’ve got a dream!”
“I’ve got scars and lumps and bruises, plus something here that oozes.”
“And let’s not even mention my complexion.”
“But despite my extra toes, and my goiter, and my nose. I really wanna make a love connection.”
“Can’t you see me with a special little lady, rowin’ in a rowboat down the stream?”
“Though I’m one disgusting blighter, I’m a lover, not a fighter.”
“'Cause way down deep inside I’ve got a dream.”
“And I know one day romance will reign supreme!”
“Though my face leaves people screaming, there’s a child behind it, dreaming”
“Like everybody else, I’ve got a dream.”
“_____ would like to quit and be a florist.”
“_______ does interior design.”
“_______’s cupcakes are sublime!”
“_____ does little puppet shows.”
“And _______ collects ceramic unicorns!”
“No, no no. Sorry, boys. I don’t sing.”
“I have dreams, like you – no, really! Just much less touchy-feely.”
“They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny, on an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone! Surrounded by enormous piles of money.”
“I just want to see the floating lanterns gleam!”
“And with every passing hour, I’m so glad I left my tower!”
“Like all you lovely folks, I’ve got a dream!”
“So our diff 'rences ain’t really that extreme!”
“Call us brutal, sick, sadistic, and grotesquely optimistic!”
“Cause way down deep inside, we’ve got a dream!”
“Flower, gleam and glow, let your power shine.”
“Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine.”
“Heal what has been hurt, change the fates’ design.”
“Save what has been lost.”
“Bring back what once was mine, what once was mine.”
Mother Knows Best (Reprise):
“Likes you? Please, ______, that’s demented.”
“This is why you never should have left.”
“Dear, this whole romance that you’ve invented, just proves you’re too naive to be here.”
“Why would he like you? Come on now, really!”
“Look at you, you think that he’s impressed?”
“Don’t be a dummy, come with mummy, Mother-”
“No?! Oh, I see how it is.”
“_________’s so mature now, such a clever grown-up Miss.”
“_________ knows best, fine, if you’re so sure now go ahead, then give him this!”
“Don’t let him deceive you!”
“Give it to him, watch, you’ll see! Trust me, my dear that’s how fast he’ll leave you.”
“I won’t say I told you so.”
“No, __________ knows best!”
“So if he’s such a dreamboat, go and put him to the test!”
“If he’s lying, don’t come crying!”
“Come to the festival, lads and lasses.”
“Come and be merry, my dears!”
“Come as we honor the missing princess, gone from us all of these years.”
“Buy a sweet pastry in loving memory, purchase a flower balloon, wave a bright flag for our missing princess!”
“May she return to us soon.”
“All of these years we’ve been fondly awaiting her, certain that somewhere she surely must roam.”
“So, on her birthday we keep celebrating her, hoping she’ll hear and come home.”
“When she returns she’ll be lovely and fair like you.”
“If it’s this year, she’ll be eighteen years old.”
“She would be pretty with long, golden hair like you, when she returns to the fold.”
“People will be singing, the bells will be ringing!”
“Lighting the way on the day she returns.”
“And if she is near us, perhaps she will hear us, and come when she sees how her kingdom still yearns.”
“When she returns, we will welcome her in again.”
“When she returns, why, how happy we’ll be.”
“When she returns and her reign can begin again, joyously!”
“But, til she comes we’ll wave flags and beat drums.”
“Then we’ll pray for that day for the day when she returns.”
“Banners will be flying, the people are crying, shouting out ‘Hooray!’ on the day she returns.”
“We will come to greet her, so eager to meet her, and show her how brightly her memory still burns.”
“And her poor parents, how long they have wept for her, marking each birthday with joy and with tears.”
“Hoping she’ll come for the crown they have kept for her, all these years.”
“And this is why, as her birthday drawn nigh, we’ll sing songs and light lanterns and hope she’ll come by.”
“And she’ll join in a dance and then maybe perchance, she will see how loved she’ll be, when she returns.”
“All those days watching from the windows, all those years outside looking in.”
“All that time never even knowing, just how blind I’ve been.”
“Now I’m here, blinking in the starlight.”
“Now I’m here, suddenly I see.”
“Standing here, it’s all so clear, I’m where I’m meant to be.”
“And at last I see the light, and it’s like the fog has lifted.”
“And at last I see the light, and it’s like the sky is new.”
“And it’s warm and real and bright, and the world has somehow shifted.”
“All at once everything looks different, now that I see you.”
“All those days chasing down a daydream.”
“All those years living in a blur.”
“All that time never truly seeing, things the way they were.”
“Now she’s here shining in the starlight.”
“Now she’s here, suddenly I know.”
“If she’s here it’s crystal clear, I’m where I’m meant to go.”
When Will My Life Begin / I See The Light (Reprise):
“Well back to home sweet home, it seems so small and dim.”
“But I got Mother here, guess it won’t be so grim.”
“Plus all my books, my painting, everything but him.”
“All those years hidden in this tower.”
“ All this time staring at the sun.”
“All those lights burning on my birthday.”
“So old _____ had better pick up steam!”
“And since it’s all about the girl, we’re on his team!”
“If you’re slow or if you waiver, you’re never gonna save her.”
“Go on and save the girl and live your… Dream!”
Healing Incantation (Reprise):
“Heal what has been hurt, changes the fates’ design, save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine… what once was mine.”
Flower of Gold / When Will My Life Begin? (Reprise):
“On the very next day or so they say, a stranger came to the castle walls.”
“The King and Queen were summoned in haste, and down they raced, hardly daring to breathe at all.”
“And when they saw who had come, they both stood there struck-dumb.”
“For they knew her without being told.”
“When she returned the whole kingdom went mad for her.”
“When she returned every heart filled with light!”
“And she returned the affection we had for her, and things began to go right.”
“When she returned love broke out nearly everywhere!”
“Thanks to old ___, all the crime vanished too.”
“Strange as it seems, people reached for their dreams, and they all came true!”
“And from that day, joy and gladness held sway.”
“And we loved her as if she were never away.”
“On the day that she returned!”
“I’ve got a life I love.”
“I’ve got a home, a family-”
“Now for the first time ever, we’re completely free, and with the whole world to wander in!”
“We can go running, and racing, rejoicing, embracing, carousing, exploring, mind reeling, heart soaring, and loving, and growing and finally knowing. Now’s when our lives begin!”