GRIEF AND LOSS LYRIC STARTERS
FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS AS YOU SEE FIT
Go Tonight from The Mad Ones
“She was sitting on the roof of her beat up car. Half singing, half laughing, half going to far”
“She was everything I’m not, my whole universe”
“I was a footnote, a slim second verse but she was the chorus, the hook and the groove”
“Without her there pushing, somehow I can’t move”
“So I sit in the car that she left behind, sinking down in this void like a crater”
“It’s too late and it’s just getting later”
“You were mad to read, mad to drive!”
“You were Mad and so alive”
“I reach but you’re not there”
“Time expands, the beat goes on, you were mad, mad and now you’re…”
“Over and over, your words to me echo, over and over as I try to let go”
“Your life is suspended in physics and time, every word you said seems like an unfinished rhyme”
“I sit in the vacuum you left beft behind and I sift through each phrase for an member, for a spark that will light”
“I was your orbit and you were my star”
“I am left numb from the loop of these memories”
Left Behind from Spring Awakening
“Were you really so blind and unkind to him?”
“Can’t help the itch to touch, to kiss, to hold him once again. Now to close his eyes, never open them”
“A shadow passed yearning for the fool it called a home”
“All things he never did are left behind, all the things his mama wished he’d bear in mind and all his dad had hoped he’d know”
“All of the crying you wouldn’t understand, you just let him cry “make a man out of him””
“All things he ever wished are left behind”
“All things he ever lives are left behind, all the fears that ever flickered through his mind, all the sadness that he’d come to own”
Absolution from Bare: A Pop Opera
“People come to the church in times like these for answers but I have none”
“Most words seem to fall empty, but I’ll try. It’s a horrible thing that no one should have to go through, losing a friend”
“You know- or you should know that he is in a better place”
“We’ll always ask ourselves if there’s something more that could have been done, it’s natural.”
“He went to you for guidance, you hid behind a scree, knowing how much empathy might mean”
“Do you know how much he loved? Did you know how much he cared?”
“Lost in the teachings was a boy so all alone and scared”
“Our love was pure and nothing else brought me closer to god”
No Voice from Bare: A Pop Opera
“There will be tears today, but we’ll get through”
“I Never found the words to say, I always thought we’d talk some day”
“You can’t begin to know the pain you’ve caused”
“How do I make sense of what I’ve gained and lost”
“What a mess, a perfect mess left alone to sort it out In the sorrow, guilt, and rage, I keep coming back to doubt”
“I’d like to start with just a-If we could take a moment-If maybe we were silent-or we had spoken-I tried to find the words to-Just the right quotation-But I must confess I came up empty”
“How did a simple love get so complicated?”
“Days crawl by, I ask myself again should I have waited”
“In a world that’s quick to judge, I will try to understand”
In the Bedroom Down the Hall from Dear Evan Hansen
“You said it never really fit you right and it itched too much but I think I’ll keep it, I should keep it ‘cause it still makes me think of you and that little boy I knew”
“I got you ninja turtle night lights for protection you used to say they kept the bad guys far away”
“Anything to make you happy anything at all”
“We went to battle every evening after dinner. I thought I knew some way that I’d get through to you”
“We fought a war where no one walked away a winner ‘cause every day you pulled a little more away”
“You try to give your kid the world give him everything you’ve got”
“What if I gave all I could and I thought it was enough but I find that it was not?”
“Everything I ever did, I did it all for you”
“I think I’ll wait another day to pack these boxes cause once I’m though I’m left with just one thing to do: remember”
What Would I Do from Falsettos
“What would I do if I had not met you? Who would I blame my life on?”
“Once I was told that all men get what they deserve. Who the hell then threw this curve?”
“There are no answers but who would I be if you had not been my friend?”
“When I’m having fun, you’re the one I wanna talk to”
“Where have you been? Where are you now?”
“Who would I be if I had not loved you? How would I know what love is?”
“God only knows too too I’ll remember your faults. Meanwhile though, it’s tears and schmaltz.”
“I’d do it again! I’d like to believe that I’d do it again and again and again!”
“How am I to face tomorrow after being screwed out of today?”
“Yes, I’d beg or steal or borrow if I could hold you for one hour more”
“Once I was told that good men get better with age, we’re just gonna skip that stage”
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom of the Opera
“You were once my one companion, you were all that mattered”
“You were once my friend and father, then my world was shattered”
“Wishing you were somehow here again, wishing you were somehow near”
“Sometimes it seemed, If I just dreamed, somehow you would be here”
“Wishing I could hear your voice, knowing that I never would”
“Dreaming of you won’t help me to do all that you dreamed I could”
“Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental seem for you the wrong companions, you were warm and gentle”
“Too many years, fighting back tears why can’t the past just die?”
“No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years.”
The Workings of The Heart(reprise) from Frankenstein
“I tried to build a world for you where death would never touch our lives, and now my love has fallen to the fate that should be mine”
“Your peace has come, you’ll cry no more”
“Let all your pain and fears depart”
“I will keep you safe inside the workings of my heart”