Hey friends!!! Ok, I re-listened to some of my cds this week. Thanks to PJ, I am consolidating my cds into binders, and along the way I have encountered cds I haven't listened to in a very long time. Due to the fact I have over 1200 of them, I forget which ones I have. So I came across Tick, Tick... Boom! It was a little show off-Broadway written by Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent. It starred one of my favorite Broadway Men, Raul Esparza!!! Well there is a song titled Louder Than Words that I just haven't stopped playing in 2 days. I was driving in my car to work, and it moved me to tears. It's a rock song that has the amazing match of words with music.
Why do we play with fire?
Why do we run our finger through the flame?
Why do we leave our hand on the stove-
Although we know we're on for some pain?
Oh, why do we refuse to hang a light?
When the streets are dangerous?
Why does it take an accident
Before the truth gets through to us?
Cages or wings?Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
Why should we try to be our best
When we can just get by and still gain?
Why do we nod our heads
Although we know the boss is wrong as rain?
Why should we blaze a trail
When the well worn path seems safe and
so inviting?
Now- as we travel we see the dismay-
Cages or wings?Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love,baby?Don't say the answer.
Actions speak louder than words.
What does it take to wake up a generation?
How can you make someone
Take off and fly?
If we don't wake up and shake up the nation
We'll eat the dust of the world
Wondering why.
Why do we stay with lovers
Who we know, down deep
Just aren't right?
Why would we rather
Put ourselves through hell
Than sleep alone at night?
Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution?
If we're so free, tell me why?
Cages or wings?Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
1 comment:
I havent heard this song, but anything Larson writes I love. I still cant listen to "Without You" after a gazillion times without getting choked up...
xoxo
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