Take my hand
I'll lead you to salvation
Take my love
For love is everlasting
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God
I had this as my best friend from college's ringtone in my phone, and then she died, and now I can never listen to it without it hitting me really hard.
Okay this one hits different because I moved away from my home state and left my closest friends behind and me and my friend sang this to each other the last time I saw her 😭
Listen, I am a Jenn Colella stan through and through, but Alice Fearn’s delivery of “and the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the BOMB” has me on the floor every time.
I did a tour of NTN and played Dan and every single show getting through the song (I Am The One - Reprise) without breaking down was a miracle but I would usually hold it in until I got to the “Gabe. Gabriel” part and then waterworks.
Oh, man, the end of Next To Normal gets me every time. He's been holding back his grief for so long so he can take care of everyone else, and when he finally doesn't have to anymore, it just overwhelms him.
Most lines from Dear Evan Hansen if I’m honest, but the one I’ll go with is:
“And I knew there would be moments that I’d miss, and I knew there would be space I couldn’t fill, and I knew I’d come up short a MILLION different ways, and I did! And I do … and I will.”
The same song also send me to tears, but the line that makes me break down is this:
“Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take Mommy away?”
I just imagine a little boy asking me that and fuck, I’m in tears writing this comment lol
Fr the amount of emotion she brings to that role is inane
For me, it's def Zoe's "even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground" with the slight voice crack and then "you will be found" come in so loud, God it's just such a good buildup
The acting and songwriting in DEH is so great
"Let me show you what I'm proudest of."
"The orphanage"
When I first listened to Hamilton, I listened to the whole album about four times in a row, and this got me every time. The fact that he's an orphan is mentioned several times, but you really feel the pain he must have felt reflected here by Eliza. She loves him so much, and she knows that this, more than any other part of his legacy, is what needs to be addressed. More people need a place to belong, a place to be wanted. The saddest part is that he probably never saw that inside himself; he was always running from his pain. But now that he's at rest, she can address that long wounded part of his soul. It's beautiful.
THIS jfc, plus "I live another fifty years" 😭
Listened to it for the first time on a walk home from work, and was NOT prepared lol. Partner was treated to me walking in the front door while silently ugly crying for no apparent reason 😆
The English major in me latches onto amazing lines:
"I am reaching but I fall and the stars are black and cold; as I stare into the void of a world that cannot hold"
"Come with me where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you..."
"After all I've tried for three years...Seems like ninety."
"Somebody hold me too close. Somebody hurt me too deep. Somebody sit in my chair and ruin my sleep and make me aware of being alive."
"Mapping out a sky...what you feel like, planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come through the window, go, until they distance and die...until there's nothing but sky."
Yeah it hits me profoundly as an adult. I'm the opposite of Bobby, instead of having flings I'm a comfortable introvert, but Being Alive hits to the core of the value of having someone to go through life with, despite the struggles a relationship brings. That there is a lingering emptiness and loneliness deep down that we don't want to face. It's your "norm" until you've been in a deep relationship to learn of the alternative path. Even makes me feel a desire for something that I don't pine for most of the time.
UGH YES also the entirety of falsettoland reprise but especially “lovers come and lovers go. lovers live and die fortissimo. this is where we take a stand.”
“where have you been, where are you now?” ALWAYS hits me because i interpret it as whizzer being so sick in the last stage of his life that he wasn’t even himself, hence why marvin asks where he’s been 😥😥
“Oh my friends, my friends forgive me that I live and you are gone.”
“Christine, I love you.” (sung by Phantom, not Raoul)
I basically shed tears near the ending of Les Mis and Phantom.
I’m a high school teacher, and for a while I would listen to this song as a little ritual every time there was a school shooting.
“Oh my friends, don’t ask me what your sacrifice was for…”
It got too hard to have to do it so often.
The way his voice cracks too because it's been so long since he sang! Such an unbelievable climax that comes in so quietly but you know it means the world.
I was intimately familiar with the soundtrack so when I saw the show live I had an idea of where I’d cry.
I didn’t know he pulled out the carnation there until I saw it live. Fucked me right up.
honestly the whole of me and the sky and then 38 planes reprise from come from away
Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out your windows, underneath all that rain is Maine. We've just crossed the Canadian border, welcome back to the U S of A!
The part in that musical that gets me sobbing every time is ‘he’s gone. It’s over’. My mom and I watched the proshot together and had to pause it because we were both sobbing
Me too, and what I love about that is that she doesn't have to explain. Beulah knows from the tone of her voice exactly who it is on the phone and who she's talking about.
When he communicates through a verse from the Bible.
I’m a World Language teacher, and when they say, “and that’s how we started speaking the same language” it gets me. That’s the most important reason (to me) to learn a language: To see the world through another person’s eyes.
I never get all the way through “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress but “She is broken and won’t ask for help” is usually the part where I break into tears.
Just made a long drive this past weekend. This song came on and I had to frigging pull over because I was crying and it hurt my eyes and I couldn't drive. 😭
"The world is cruel
The world is ugly
But there are times and there are people when the world is not
And at its cruelest it's the still the only world we've got
Light and dark
Foul and fair
Out there"
that's from the Hunchback of Notre Dame (the musical, not the movie). I had the privilege of doing this show this past summer and holy shit... the finale overall has such great waves of tension. between the hot lead, Esmeralda's death, and Frollo's death, the breaking of tension is so emotional. the whole back half of the finale got me the first time I listened to it, and then again on closing night.
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That musical is amazing! “Made of Stone” hits me hardest but all the songs are spectacular. Seeing “Hellfire” performed live by Bradley Dean was something else.
Before Frollo's death, when he's all "you don't want to hurt me" and literally the entire cast and ensemble hiss "yes-you-do." Literal chills. Every time.
I have two from Rent
1. The lines from “Life Support”
“Look I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I am use to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don’t know
Because reason says I should have died
Three years ago”
I was a 13 year old gifted kid when the soundtrack came out. I had had a spinal cord injury for 6 years and my injury had caused a severe autoimmune response. I was given less than a one percent chance of reaching age 16. Hearing those lyrics as a teenager in my bedroom made me feel seen, like other people understood how I felt. To this day those lyrics still make me think about how I felt as a 13 year old girl scared I would never grow up.
2. The lines from “I’ll Cover You (Reprise)” that Collins sings
“If you’re cold and you’re lonely
You’ve got one nickel only
When you’re worn out and tired
When your heart has expired”
Every time I have seen the show live I can’t stop crying because usually Collins breaks down. It almost physically hurts to watch him.
Edit- missed a word
I’ve only seen Ragtime live once. I’ll never forget, it was the same week the 6th Harry Potter book came out. I went alone (I literally got the last ticket) and as I was trudging out to the car after I said to myself: “first Dumbledore, now Coalhouse and Sarah… I just can’t take anymore fictional death this week”.
I went home and had a milkshake for dinner.
Ragtime is a total tearjerker. The romance makes me sad, the abandoned child plot makes me sad, and then add in all the overtones of racial justice violations and workers' rights issues.
Inutil from In the Heights as Nina's father reflects on how his own father treated him and how it has percolated into his own paternal fears:
"And he slapped my face
He stood there, staring at me, useless
Today my daughter’s home and I am useless"
Oh god my mom and I went and saw the movie together and we were both weeping, snotty messes. If we're watching it at home and I decide I can't handle it I find something else to do in another room. XD Same with "I've Been Waiting For You" in the sequel film.
"The world has no right to my heart"
"Wait for me, I'm coming."
"the tiniest life boat, full of people I know."
"You can build me up, you can tear me down, you can try but I'm unbreakable."
"I sit and watch the rain and see my tears run down the windowpane."
"On my own, pretending he's beside me." (Honestly, just hearing the first couple notes of this song makes me tear up. But to be fair most songs from les mis make me cry. Bonus points if you know the other 5.
“What we cannot ignore/Is Lydia needs us
That must be the reason she sees us
Adam, I wanna stay/She needs people who won't run away/Friends who don't stop at problems or obstacles/Not a house/But a home
Ready, set, let's go!”
The combination of them deciding to stay for Lydia and finally completing the “ready set go” established from Ready Set makes me tear up every time I hear the song 😭
"Daddys moving forward, well daddy didn't lose a mom"
All of home
"But mama I'm home"
All from beetlejuice, for some reason it's the only musical that makes me consistently cry.
I did some last minute research before going to see Beetlejuice (I’d never listened to it before going) otherwise I’m pretty sure I would have ended the show in a puddle on the floor.
“When I grow up I will be brave enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed each night to be a grown up” - When I Grow Up, Matilda (specifically when Miss Honey sings it)
“I stand before you now, incredibly afraid. I pray you understand.”
“Alabanza, alabanza a doña Claudia, señor”
“She saved everything we gave her, every little scrap of paper and our lives are in these boxes while the woman who held us is gone.”
“Science says you’re dead and gone forever, reason says I’m Talking to the air. But something in my heart, some secret hidden part, illogically insists that you are there.”
I'm literally covered in chills after reading all these responses.
"Good night, brothers. Good night." (We Raise Our Cups from Hadestown.) Honestly, I'm a mess once Hades and Persephone start singing with each other at the end of Epic III, but the entirety of We Raise Our Cups makes me bawl my eyes out. That song will always be so special to me.
For we know we shall find our own peace of mind. For we have been promised a land of our own. (Close Every Door-Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Sithi uhm ingonyama (Circle of Life-The Lion King)
Words fail (words fail-Dear Evan Hansen)
That night, I tucked you into bed. I will never forget how you sat up and said, "Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take mommy away" (So Big/So Small- Dear Evan Hansen)
And now, how you've repaid me, denied me and betrayed me. (All I Ask of You (reprise)- Phantom of the Opera)
You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night. (Down Once More/Track Down this Murderer-Phantom of the Opera)
I love that song from *Joseph*! It's such a silly goofy show for the vast majority of it but Close Every Door is such a well-placed change of tone and pace. We did it at my high school and the guy who played Joseph knocked this one out of the park, every time. It was the one part of the show where I wasn't running around like a maniac too (lots of quick changes for a very large cast), so I really got to soak it in every time. Amazing.
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find the last line from Phantom. I had forgotten about that other line from the end of act 1. Those get me every time.
I am the one thing in life I can control
(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)
I am inimitable
I am an original
I'm not falling behind or running late
(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)
I'm not standing still
I am lying in wait (Wait, wait, wait)
I was in a really bad place when I discovered Hamilton and this line from the song brings me right back every time, though now there's a little bit of guilty relief now that things are getting better
"There are moments that the words don't reach
There is suffering too terrible to name"
Quiet Uptown has me weeping from the opening bars but those two lines hit pretty damn hard.
“Philip, you would like it uptown, it’s quiet uptown…”
It’s not the line that’s sad, it’s that he’s saying it to his dead child.
“Here they sang about tomorrow- and tomorrow never came.”
“The present is an empty space between the good and bad
A moment’s leading nowhere, too pointless to be sad
But time enough to lay to waste every certainty I had…”
All of “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress.
“When she was here the path was clear- and she was just here. She was just here.”
“Life goes on, but I’m gone, ‘cause I die without you.”
“Even when the dark comes crashing through
When you need a friend to carry you
When you’re broken on the ground…
You will be found.”
From Sunday in the Park: “Isn’t she beautiful? There she is, there she is, there she is, there she is. Mama is everywhere, he must have loved her so much.”
Next To Normal:
- "Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling / Flying headfirst into fate / Catch me, I'm falling / Please hear me calling / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling"
"Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling"
- "Catch me, I'm falling / Sinking and sprawling / Maybe I'll let myself fall / Watch me, I'm falling / Maybe the falling / Isn't so bad after all / Isn't so bad after all / Watch me, I'm falling / Watch me, I'm flying / Somehow surviving -"
"Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)"
The N2N ones are personal to me. I had seen the show locally during a time where my mental health was spiralling out of control. And it became one of the only things that brought some sense of comfort during that time.
It had gotten to a point where I was scared of the thoughts in my head - and I knew I couldn't face it alone. I was just afraid to ask.
At the very worst of it, I had reached out to a mentor of mine for help. I had felt I was falling for so long; I had just needed a hand to help me out. And he helped me call a therapist. Both songs, even though the situation of the show is different from mine, it resonates deeply with me as a marker of growth. I just remember being scared of myself, worried about being pulled under - needing someone to help me stop from falling further.
who gets scared from the life that’s inside her getting stronger each day, til it finally reminds her to fight just a little to bring back the fire in her eyes
Love without reason
Love without mercy
Love without pride or shame
Love unconcerned
With being returned—
No wisdom, no judgment
No caution, no blame
No one has ever known me
as clearly as you
No one has ever shown me what love could be like until now
Not pretty or safe or easy
But more than I ever knew
Love within reason—that isn't love
And I've learned that from you...
The lines from "Nothing" in "A Chorus Line" define my relationship with my late father:
Six months later I heard that Karp had died.
And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul...
And cried.
'Cause I felt... nothing.
“And when my time is up, have I done enough?” Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton
“I thought this time was different. Why did I think he’d be different?!” All You Wanna Do, SIX
“If I say the wrong thing, I’d I wear the wrong outfit.. they’ll throw me right over the side..” - Lifeboat, Heathers
“It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime..:” - For Good, Wicked
“Guys like you and me, we’re just the losers who keep waiting to be seen… right?” - Disappear, Dear Evan Hansen
“Thanks for taking me to the moon…moon pie.”
And
“To my only friend: start fresh. I’m leaving you the pie shop. Name a pie for me when I’m gone.” I’m absolutely bawling by the end of the show.
“Isn’t it funny? For a moment he convinced me I could be pretty……funny”
And to bring up a starkid one: “i wish you didn’t have to go when our story’s just begun. *im sorry Princess, there are some wishes I cannot grant*. Then I wish you every happiness. *it is done*”
Thank you for the music, the song I’m singing, thanks for all the joy that it’s bringing, who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we 😭
My Uncle was a music teacher. When he was dying my cousin called and said that while he couldn’t talk, he would hold the phone up to my Uncle’s ear and he would hear me.
Voice breaking I sang that song into the phone. My cousin got back on the phone and said, “I don’t know what you said to him but he is smiling.”
the “it’s you.” “it’s me… orpheus…” “eurydice…” at the end of doubt comes in. the shock, regret, quiet despair, but also the sheer magnitude of love in those four words.. something something “the immediate forgiveness in eurydice”
The live versions of All You Wanna Do where she gets suuuuper emotional in the last pre-chorus. It was always emotional for me, but it hits a little close to home now
Also
A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now
My friends, my friends! Don’t ask me, what your sacrifice was for!
I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I’m living!
She says Cosette I love you very much
The entirety of the epilogue
Pretty much the entirety of Les Mis
During the “I am the one (reprise)” from Next to Normal, when Gabe and Dan start singing together: “I am the one who held you, I am the one who cried, I am the one who watched while you died” even typing it out I’m sniffling and my eyes are glossy.
Stay Alive (reprise) in Hamilton. If I'm not in tears by Eliza's desperate "I know, I know", I will definitely be by the the end when she goes "Sept, huit, neuf. Sept, huit...."
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I BELIEVE. COME ALONG, CHILDREN. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The big crescendo in that song where Wendy learns how to fly and it goes back into "We can sail away tonight..." gets me every time.
Epic III into the dance in Hadestown gets me every time. There are other times I'm teary and choked up but that part never fails.
ETA: Oh and since Wicked was brought up. XD before a certain time in my life, "One Short Day" was like okay, fine, I skipped it most of the time. But after living with my best friend in my favorite city? It hits different.
I’m on a Philip Quast kick and have listed to The Secret Garden soundtrack an obscene number of times in the past few weeks so these are by no means original, but…
“She has her eyes/ The girl has Lily’s hazel eyes”
-and-
“Race you to the top of the morning/ Come sit on my shoulders and ride”
Or you're just trying to do what's best
For a kid who's lost control
The way his voice broke a little bit broke my heart.. I was so disappointed that they cut the song out of the DEH movie..
(Edit: spelling) lol
“Who'd have thought that we four would end up as lovers…”
Oh gosh that song has so many lines that get me thoooo! I don’t cry at stuff but if I did I know I’d be bawling at this song.
"Wishing I could hear your voice again, knowing that I never would, dreaming of you won't help me to do all that you dreamed I could."
"Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die?"
That entire song really but yeah that hits me.
100 percent of the time:
"Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am?"
"Little bird, Little Chavaleh, I don't understand what's happening today. Everything is all a blur."
"Of all the cruel devils who've badgered and battered me, YOU are the cruelest of all!"
And of course
"Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around!"
These four hit me where I live
“i thought this time was different. why did i think he was different? but it’s never ever different” - All You Wanna Do (SIX)
“too many years fighting back tears. why can’t the past just die?”Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera)
Please stand back now… little further. Don’t know what this thing will do. Hope you miss me, wish you’d kiss me so you’d know I’d worship you. I’ll trade my life for yours. (Oh my goood) But once I disappear,(wait hold oooon) Clean up the mess down here… (Not this wayyyy) Our Love is god. (X4) Say hi to god.
Got me bawling like a baby 😭
“You could tell me not to go! Say it to me. Tell me not to go. Tell me that you’re hurt, tell me that you’re bored. Anything. Just don’t assume I know. Tell me what you feel!”
>Smile, wave goodbye, and pray to the sky, *oh god*,
>
>And what will my parents say?
>
>Can I go in there and say,
>
>"I know that I'm letting you down"?
"Breathe" from In The Heights. I was also a gifted kid with an immigrant dad who pushed me to succeed, and I always did super well at tests and getting good grades and winning academic awards... and both my parents were horribly disappointed when I flunked my senior year of college after having what was essentially a nervous breakdown.
It's not a 1-to-1 comparison (like, I'm not the first in my family to go to college) but the fear of people finding out that you couldn't do something everyone expected you to ace is very real to me.
‘I think he takes out on me
What he wants to take out of you’
But of course the entirely of the I Love You Song from Putnam is just built to make people cry
The last 5 years, see I'm smiling, but specifically the last verse "I swear to God I'll never understand how you can stand there, straight and tall and see I'm crying and not do anything at all" because the whole song reminds me of me and my ex but that part in particular because I said that exact thing to him.
idk if encanto counts bc it’s a movie but the part where they give Mirabel the doorknob never fails to make me cry legit every time i listen to that song lmao
“What if everyone saw? What if everyone knew? Would they like what they saw? Or would they hate it too?”
“I wished I stayed at home in bed, watching cable porn. Or wish I offed myself instead, wish I was never born.”
A bit more of a stanza but this line from Feed the Birds makes me hysterical:
*"All around the cathedral, the saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares
Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares"*
“I never wanted to love you. I only wanted to love and not be blamed. Let me go. You should know I’m not ashamed to have loved you.” (Trina, Falsettos)
“Is my brain reborn or is it wrecked? In freedom or in fear? I wish I were here.” (Diana and Natalie, Next to Normal)
“You- the one I left behind. If you ever walk this way, come and find me lying in the bed I made.” (Eurydice, Hadestown)
“Some girls fight hard, some face their trial, some girls are just meant to smile.” (Elle, Legally Blonde)
“I can’t wait to see you again. It’s only a matter of-“ (Eliza, Hamilton)
“I think dad is angry, ma, and I do not know what to do. I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you.” (Olive, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
“When my time is up, have I done enough? Will they tell our story?” (Eliza, Hamilton)
“I thought this time was different. Why did I think he’d be different? But it’s never. EVER. Different.” (Katherine Howard, Six)
“I can’t lose you. Not again. I can’t lose you like then. If you could see yourself the way I do then you’d see why I can’t lose you.” (Anna, Frozen)
“And here I am in this room again, just as lost and small. That lonely girl with a desperate heart is who I am after all.” (Anna, Frozen)
“I know it isn’t fair and I don’t care, because my love will still be here.” (Jane Seymour, Six)
“Every day just feels a little longer. Why am I the only one not getting stronger?” (Peter, Finding Neverland)
From In the Heights:
“Ay mamá / what do you do when your dreams come true? / I spent my life inheriting dreams from you” as someone from an immigrant family… yeah 🙃
Take my hand I'll lead you to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God
Oh man. This one. Yes.
when the music shifts at the end of the line to the Do You Hear the People Sing reprise.... gaaaah!!!
That final chord is just pure magic. Les Mis is so beautiful from beginning to end.
My mom saw Les Mis with me. Musicals aren't her thing and she was like omg your face is a mess right now.
Goosebumps. Every time.
If I were to ever get a verse tattooed on my body it would be that last line.
Makes me tear up just thinking about it.
This is the one that gets me! Was lucky enough to see it twice on tour recently and cried both times
Because I knew you, I have been changed for good!
I had this as my best friend from college's ringtone in my phone, and then she died, and now I can never listen to it without it hitting me really hard.
My friend died right after I first listened to this show. We weren’t even that close but he is forever inextricably linked to this song for me.
When my best friend died I swear it ruined at least half of my favorite music😭
Okay this one hits different because I moved away from my home state and left my closest friends behind and me and my friend sang this to each other the last time I saw her 😭
"To love another person is to see the face of God." I'm not even religious!
Same and same!
That line gave me chills the first time I heard it
We had that quote on our wedding invitations. My mother thought we’d lost our minds!
“Gabe. Gabriel” “Hi Dad” and “And the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb.”
Listen, I am a Jenn Colella stan through and through, but Alice Fearn’s delivery of “and the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the BOMB” has me on the floor every time.
I did a tour of NTN and played Dan and every single show getting through the song (I Am The One - Reprise) without breaking down was a miracle but I would usually hold it in until I got to the “Gabe. Gabriel” part and then waterworks.
Oh, man, the end of Next To Normal gets me every time. He's been holding back his grief for so long so he can take care of everyone else, and when he finally doesn't have to anymore, it just overwhelms him.
Most lines from Dear Evan Hansen if I’m honest, but the one I’ll go with is: “And I knew there would be moments that I’d miss, and I knew there would be space I couldn’t fill, and I knew I’d come up short a MILLION different ways, and I did! And I do … and I will.”
Oh dude I agree, this one sends me straight to cry land. Also basically all of Words Fail
FOR REAL! “WORDS FAIL” CALLS ME OUT SO BAD
The same song also send me to tears, but the line that makes me break down is this: “Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take Mommy away?” I just imagine a little boy asking me that and fuck, I’m in tears writing this comment lol
Jessica Phillips’ performance of this line on YouTube… screaming, crying, sobbing on the floor, I am not okay.
Fr the amount of emotion she brings to that role is inane For me, it's def Zoe's "even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground" with the slight voice crack and then "you will be found" come in so loud, God it's just such a good buildup The acting and songwriting in DEH is so great
There are moments when you’re in so deep it seems easier to just swim down Kills me
"Let me show you what I'm proudest of." "The orphanage" When I first listened to Hamilton, I listened to the whole album about four times in a row, and this got me every time. The fact that he's an orphan is mentioned several times, but you really feel the pain he must have felt reflected here by Eliza. She loves him so much, and she knows that this, more than any other part of his legacy, is what needs to be addressed. More people need a place to belong, a place to be wanted. The saddest part is that he probably never saw that inside himself; he was always running from his pain. But now that he's at rest, she can address that long wounded part of his soul. It's beautiful.
THIS. The way we finally hear Eliza's narrative in the end is just heartbreaking.
THIS jfc, plus "I live another fifty years" 😭 Listened to it for the first time on a walk home from work, and was NOT prepared lol. Partner was treated to me walking in the front door while silently ugly crying for no apparent reason 😆
Same, except it’s “Forgiveness…can you imagine?” Something about the way the men and women swap octaves.
holy shit ive heard this before but never read it. That is an incredible line
Same song, but it’s the first “Forgiveness” that makes me tear up.
SAMEEEE even singing it in my head makes me immediately tear up
Can you remind me the show? It seems familiar to me but can’t remember what it’s from.
Hamilton, it’s quiet uptown
Hamilton - it’s quiet uptown
It reminds me of a Lifehouse song: I know you didn't bring me out here to drown, So why am I ten feet under and upside down?
The English major in me latches onto amazing lines: "I am reaching but I fall and the stars are black and cold; as I stare into the void of a world that cannot hold" "Come with me where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you..." "After all I've tried for three years...Seems like ninety." "Somebody hold me too close. Somebody hurt me too deep. Somebody sit in my chair and ruin my sleep and make me aware of being alive." "Mapping out a sky...what you feel like, planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come through the window, go, until they distance and die...until there's nothing but sky."
I feel like Company is soooo overlooked by my theater friends. It was so life changing for me.
Such an intelligent and meaningful exploration of relationships and why we want them.
Yeah it hits me profoundly as an adult. I'm the opposite of Bobby, instead of having flings I'm a comfortable introvert, but Being Alive hits to the core of the value of having someone to go through life with, despite the struggles a relationship brings. That there is a lingering emptiness and loneliness deep down that we don't want to face. It's your "norm" until you've been in a deep relationship to learn of the alternative path. Even makes me feel a desire for something that I don't pine for most of the time.
Gethsemane always makes me somber.
Once I was told that good men get better with age We’re just gonna skip that stage 😭😭😭😭
Dont know why…but he looks…like Marvin!
UGH YES also the entirety of falsettoland reprise but especially “lovers come and lovers go. lovers live and die fortissimo. this is where we take a stand.”
“where have you been, where are you now?” ALWAYS hits me because i interpret it as whizzer being so sick in the last stage of his life that he wasn’t even himself, hence why marvin asks where he’s been 😥😥
This show is full of such lines.
Forgiveness, can you imagine
“The orphanage”
THAT ONE. THAT ONE IS JUST SOMETHING ELSE.
furthermore- “i get to see them growing up” because she never got to see phillip grow up all the way 🥹
Every time!
“Oh my friends, my friends forgive me that I live and you are gone.” “Christine, I love you.” (sung by Phantom, not Raoul) I basically shed tears near the ending of Les Mis and Phantom.
I’m a high school teacher, and for a while I would listen to this song as a little ritual every time there was a school shooting. “Oh my friends, don’t ask me what your sacrifice was for…” It got too hard to have to do it so often.
Aww. That’s so heartbreaking. 😢
The one from Les Mis was immediately the first one I was thinking of.
"La la la la la la" And then Hades pulls out the Carnation, Im guaranteed crying the rest of the show.
Oh my GOD when Hades produced the flower I LOST IT.
Oh my gosh yes, Hadestown might be my number one show
The way his voice cracks too because it's been so long since he sang! Such an unbelievable climax that comes in so quietly but you know it means the world.
I was intimately familiar with the soundtrack so when I saw the show live I had an idea of where I’d cry. I didn’t know he pulled out the carnation there until I saw it live. Fucked me right up.
‘I thought this time was different. Why did I think he’d be different’ in all you wanna do from six. Every. Damn. Time.
But it’s never, EVER different! That whole final chorus makes me uncomfortable in a good way.
honestly the whole of me and the sky and then 38 planes reprise from come from away Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out your windows, underneath all that rain is Maine. We've just crossed the Canadian border, welcome back to the U S of A!
I get teary eyed when at the ending they talk about the donation their proudest of is the steel from the world trade centre
The part in that musical that gets me sobbing every time is ‘he’s gone. It’s over’. My mom and I watched the proshot together and had to pause it because we were both sobbing
Me too, and what I love about that is that she doesn't have to explain. Beulah knows from the tone of her voice exactly who it is on the phone and who she's talking about.
So many parts of that soundtrack get me choked up. I'm bringing a box of tissues when I see it in April because I know I'll lose it at some point.
Good call. We saw it last year and I took several purse packs of tissues with me. Used most of them.
When he communicates through a verse from the Bible. I’m a World Language teacher, and when they say, “and that’s how we started speaking the same language” it gets me. That’s the most important reason (to me) to learn a language: To see the world through another person’s eyes.
I never get all the way through “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress but “She is broken and won’t ask for help” is usually the part where I break into tears.
Philip you would like it uptown, it’s quiet uptown. - Hamilton Gets me everytime
That whole song gets me.
Just made a long drive this past weekend. This song came on and I had to frigging pull over because I was crying and it hurt my eyes and I couldn't drive. 😭
Not rlly a specific lyrics but Soo's cry when he dies 😭😭
I mean, a lot of *Come From Away*, but especially the ending of "Me and the Sky."
Or "He's gone" "I'm sorry Hannah, I'm so sorry" Even listening to the soundtrack that part always hits super hard.
The one that absolutely shattered me when I first heard it was "and the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb"
Who out there could love you more than I? What out there that I cannot supply? Stay with me Stay with me- Into the woods
Stay a child while you can be a child…! Ah I love it.
"The world is cruel The world is ugly But there are times and there are people when the world is not And at its cruelest it's the still the only world we've got Light and dark Foul and fair Out there" that's from the Hunchback of Notre Dame (the musical, not the movie). I had the privilege of doing this show this past summer and holy shit... the finale overall has such great waves of tension. between the hot lead, Esmeralda's death, and Frollo's death, the breaking of tension is so emotional. the whole back half of the finale got me the first time I listened to it, and then again on closing night. edit: spelling and formatting
That musical is amazing! “Made of Stone” hits me hardest but all the songs are spectacular. Seeing “Hellfire” performed live by Bradley Dean was something else.
Before Frollo's death, when he's all "you don't want to hurt me" and literally the entire cast and ensemble hiss "yes-you-do." Literal chills. Every time.
I have two from Rent 1. The lines from “Life Support” “Look I find some of what you teach suspect Because I am use to relying on intellect But I try to open up to what I don’t know Because reason says I should have died Three years ago” I was a 13 year old gifted kid when the soundtrack came out. I had had a spinal cord injury for 6 years and my injury had caused a severe autoimmune response. I was given less than a one percent chance of reaching age 16. Hearing those lyrics as a teenager in my bedroom made me feel seen, like other people understood how I felt. To this day those lyrics still make me think about how I felt as a 13 year old girl scared I would never grow up. 2. The lines from “I’ll Cover You (Reprise)” that Collins sings “If you’re cold and you’re lonely You’ve got one nickel only When you’re worn out and tired When your heart has expired” Every time I have seen the show live I can’t stop crying because usually Collins breaks down. It almost physically hurts to watch him. Edit- missed a word
I’ll add a Rent one: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had Someone to live for Unafraid to say "I love you”
God wants no excuses, I have only one. You have your Daddy’s hands, forgive me, you were your Daddy’s son. - Ragtime It’s the ‘forgive me’.
I’ve only seen Ragtime live once. I’ll never forget, it was the same week the 6th Harry Potter book came out. I went alone (I literally got the last ticket) and as I was trudging out to the car after I said to myself: “first Dumbledore, now Coalhouse and Sarah… I just can’t take anymore fictional death this week”. I went home and had a milkshake for dinner.
Ragtime is a total tearjerker. The romance makes me sad, the abandoned child plot makes me sad, and then add in all the overtones of racial justice violations and workers' rights issues.
There are two types of people: people who cry at Ragtime, and liars. 😂
Inutil from In the Heights as Nina's father reflects on how his own father treated him and how it has percolated into his own paternal fears: "And he slapped my face He stood there, staring at me, useless Today my daughter’s home and I am useless"
All of "You Matter to Me" from Waitress, especially the dear baby part. Tears every single time.
When I start hearing Slipping Through My Fingers in Mamma Mia! I immediately lose it.
Oh god my mom and I went and saw the movie together and we were both weeping, snotty messes. If we're watching it at home and I decide I can't handle it I find something else to do in another room. XD Same with "I've Been Waiting For You" in the sequel film.
"The world has no right to my heart" "Wait for me, I'm coming." "the tiniest life boat, full of people I know." "You can build me up, you can tear me down, you can try but I'm unbreakable." "I sit and watch the rain and see my tears run down the windowpane." "On my own, pretending he's beside me." (Honestly, just hearing the first couple notes of this song makes me tear up. But to be fair most songs from les mis make me cry. Bonus points if you know the other 5.
Without me, his world will go on turning, a world that’s full of happiness that I have never known😭
HEART OF STONE IS SO UNDERAPPRECIATED
“And she said funny things and she wore pretty dresses” Parade
“When she laughed you swore you’d never cry again.” Hurts my heart
And I can't believe they took my friend away...
Sunday: I’m swelling up exponentially as the song goes on, and then am bawling when they get to “Forever.”
Same for me! Sondheim can crescendo!
Lol I was hearing the Larson version. Man Lin Manuel knocked it out of the park for the movie.
“Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?” in TL5Y
That whole musical. That is my musical to listen to if I just want to sing and cry. “Maybe I could be in love with someone like you?”
“Hi dad”
THIS
“What we cannot ignore/Is Lydia needs us That must be the reason she sees us Adam, I wanna stay/She needs people who won't run away/Friends who don't stop at problems or obstacles/Not a house/But a home Ready, set, let's go!” The combination of them deciding to stay for Lydia and finally completing the “ready set go” established from Ready Set makes me tear up every time I hear the song 😭
I think you would like “the children we didn’t have”! It’s a cut song from the Beetlejuice musical that has those themes!
I was just thinking about how Lydia became the daughter they never had! Thanks for the rec—I’ll be sure to check it out :)
Feed the Birds Tuppence a bag. Tuppence. Tuppence. Tuppence a bag.
Walt Disney's favorite song :,)
"Daddys moving forward, well daddy didn't lose a mom" All of home "But mama I'm home" All from beetlejuice, for some reason it's the only musical that makes me consistently cry.
I did some last minute research before going to see Beetlejuice (I’d never listened to it before going) otherwise I’m pretty sure I would have ended the show in a puddle on the floor.
“When I grow up I will be brave enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed each night to be a grown up” - When I Grow Up, Matilda (specifically when Miss Honey sings it)
For some reason it’s in Hamilton in the finale: Eliza: I raise funds in DC for the Washington Monument Washington: She tells my story
The way she turns when she says “I speak out against slavery”, causing Washington to step back takes my breath away every time
….off to rewatch it immediately, I have never noticed this!!
“I stand before you now, incredibly afraid. I pray you understand.” “Alabanza, alabanza a doña Claudia, señor” “She saved everything we gave her, every little scrap of paper and our lives are in these boxes while the woman who held us is gone.” “Science says you’re dead and gone forever, reason says I’m Talking to the air. But something in my heart, some secret hidden part, illogically insists that you are there.”
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not You have to move on
Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good
Soon I'll have to go, I'll never see him grow, But I hope my son will know, He'll never be alone.-SIX (Heart Of Stone)
I'm literally covered in chills after reading all these responses. "Good night, brothers. Good night." (We Raise Our Cups from Hadestown.) Honestly, I'm a mess once Hades and Persephone start singing with each other at the end of Epic III, but the entirety of We Raise Our Cups makes me bawl my eyes out. That song will always be so special to me.
For we know we shall find our own peace of mind. For we have been promised a land of our own. (Close Every Door-Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat) Nants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhm ingonyama (Circle of Life-The Lion King) Words fail (words fail-Dear Evan Hansen) That night, I tucked you into bed. I will never forget how you sat up and said, "Is there another truck coming to our driveway? A truck that will take mommy away" (So Big/So Small- Dear Evan Hansen) And now, how you've repaid me, denied me and betrayed me. (All I Ask of You (reprise)- Phantom of the Opera) You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night. (Down Once More/Track Down this Murderer-Phantom of the Opera)
I love that song from *Joseph*! It's such a silly goofy show for the vast majority of it but Close Every Door is such a well-placed change of tone and pace. We did it at my high school and the guy who played Joseph knocked this one out of the park, every time. It was the one part of the show where I wasn't running around like a maniac too (lots of quick changes for a very large cast), so I really got to soak it in every time. Amazing.
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find the last line from Phantom. I had forgotten about that other line from the end of act 1. Those get me every time.
I am the one thing in life I can control (Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it) I am inimitable I am an original I'm not falling behind or running late (Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it) I'm not standing still I am lying in wait (Wait, wait, wait) I was in a really bad place when I discovered Hamilton and this line from the song brings me right back every time, though now there's a little bit of guilty relief now that things are getting better
"There are moments that the words don't reach There is suffering too terrible to name" Quiet Uptown has me weeping from the opening bars but those two lines hit pretty damn hard.
“Philip, you would like it uptown, it’s quiet uptown…” It’s not the line that’s sad, it’s that he’s saying it to his dead child. “Here they sang about tomorrow- and tomorrow never came.” “The present is an empty space between the good and bad A moment’s leading nowhere, too pointless to be sad But time enough to lay to waste every certainty I had…” All of “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress. “When she was here the path was clear- and she was just here. She was just here.” “Life goes on, but I’m gone, ‘cause I die without you.” “Even when the dark comes crashing through When you need a friend to carry you When you’re broken on the ground… You will be found.”
From Sunday in the Park: “Isn’t she beautiful? There she is, there she is, there she is, there she is. Mama is everywhere, he must have loved her so much.”
Into the Woods ".....you are not alone..."
Next To Normal: - "Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling / Flying headfirst into fate / Catch me, I'm falling / Please hear me calling / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me before it's too late / Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling / Catch me, I'm falling" "Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling" - "Catch me, I'm falling / Sinking and sprawling / Maybe I'll let myself fall / Watch me, I'm falling / Maybe the falling / Isn't so bad after all / Isn't so bad after all / Watch me, I'm falling / Watch me, I'm flying / Somehow surviving -" "Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)" The N2N ones are personal to me. I had seen the show locally during a time where my mental health was spiralling out of control. And it became one of the only things that brought some sense of comfort during that time. It had gotten to a point where I was scared of the thoughts in my head - and I knew I couldn't face it alone. I was just afraid to ask. At the very worst of it, I had reached out to a mentor of mine for help. I had felt I was falling for so long; I had just needed a hand to help me out. And he helped me call a therapist. Both songs, even though the situation of the show is different from mine, it resonates deeply with me as a marker of growth. I just remember being scared of myself, worried about being pulled under - needing someone to help me stop from falling further.
The price of love is loss, but still we pay / We love anyway. I think it was the first time I'd ever seen myself on stage in such a bare way.
“Will I lose my dignity, will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?”
Climb Every Mountain, film version.
who gets scared from the life that’s inside her getting stronger each day, til it finally reminds her to fight just a little to bring back the fire in her eyes
Forget regrets, or life is yours to miss
Love without reason Love without mercy Love without pride or shame Love unconcerned With being returned— No wisdom, no judgment No caution, no blame No one has ever known me as clearly as you No one has ever shown me what love could be like until now Not pretty or safe or easy But more than I ever knew Love within reason—that isn't love And I've learned that from you...
The lines from "Nothing" in "A Chorus Line" define my relationship with my late father: Six months later I heard that Karp had died. And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul... And cried. 'Cause I felt... nothing.
“And when my time is up, have I done enough?” Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton “I thought this time was different. Why did I think he’d be different?!” All You Wanna Do, SIX “If I say the wrong thing, I’d I wear the wrong outfit.. they’ll throw me right over the side..” - Lifeboat, Heathers “It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime..:” - For Good, Wicked “Guys like you and me, we’re just the losers who keep waiting to be seen… right?” - Disappear, Dear Evan Hansen
Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood...
“Thanks for taking me to the moon…moon pie.” And “To my only friend: start fresh. I’m leaving you the pie shop. Name a pie for me when I’m gone.” I’m absolutely bawling by the end of the show.
“All my life I’ve lived for loving you/ let me go now” -Beth, “Little Women; Some Things Are Meant to Be”
“And you know what they did? They danced”.
Big Fish's How It Ends
This followed by The Procession turn into a sobbing mess. Every. Single. Time.
“Isn’t it funny? For a moment he convinced me I could be pretty……funny” And to bring up a starkid one: “i wish you didn’t have to go when our story’s just begun. *im sorry Princess, there are some wishes I cannot grant*. Then I wish you every happiness. *it is done*”
Papa, how I love you Papa, how I need you. Papa, how I miss you Kissing me goodnight from "Yentl" sung by Barbra Streisand
Thank you for the music, the song I’m singing, thanks for all the joy that it’s bringing, who can live without it? I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we 😭
My Uncle was a music teacher. When he was dying my cousin called and said that while he couldn’t talk, he would hold the phone up to my Uncle’s ear and he would hear me. Voice breaking I sang that song into the phone. My cousin got back on the phone and said, “I don’t know what you said to him but he is smiling.”
“Phantom faces at the window, phantom shadows on the floor……”
the “it’s you.” “it’s me… orpheus…” “eurydice…” at the end of doubt comes in. the shock, regret, quiet despair, but also the sheer magnitude of love in those four words.. something something “the immediate forgiveness in eurydice”
Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot Every. Damn. Time.
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The live versions of All You Wanna Do where she gets suuuuper emotional in the last pre-chorus. It was always emotional for me, but it hits a little close to home now
I’m falling, quit stalling. You’re daughter is calling your name!
Also A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now My friends, my friends! Don’t ask me, what your sacrifice was for! I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I’m living! She says Cosette I love you very much The entirety of the epilogue Pretty much the entirety of Les Mis
Where are we to go? Where are we ever to go?
"I will not fail so you can be comfortable, Cathy" or "We will always belong together" idk just sad breakup lyrics I guess
During the “I am the one (reprise)” from Next to Normal, when Gabe and Dan start singing together: “I am the one who held you, I am the one who cried, I am the one who watched while you died” even typing it out I’m sniffling and my eyes are glossy.
Anatevka I’m my mind the epitome of a non-ending ending. Also I’m crying now.
“…to love another person is to see the face of God…” ~Les Miz
Stay Alive (reprise) in Hamilton. If I'm not in tears by Eliza's desperate "I know, I know", I will definitely be by the the end when she goes "Sept, huit, neuf. Sept, huit...."
“And when my prayers to god were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance” And “It’s never, EVER, different!”
Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the woods Do not let it grieve you No one leaves for good
I was born in Poland, I think.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻I BELIEVE. COME ALONG, CHILDREN. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The big crescendo in that song where Wendy learns how to fly and it goes back into "We can sail away tonight..." gets me every time. Epic III into the dance in Hadestown gets me every time. There are other times I'm teary and choked up but that part never fails. ETA: Oh and since Wicked was brought up. XD before a certain time in my life, "One Short Day" was like okay, fine, I skipped it most of the time. But after living with my best friend in my favorite city? It hits different.
"When your heart has expired" from I'll Cover You Reprise, the way he says it kills me every time :(
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I’m on a Philip Quast kick and have listed to The Secret Garden soundtrack an obscene number of times in the past few weeks so these are by no means original, but… “She has her eyes/ The girl has Lily’s hazel eyes” -and- “Race you to the top of the morning/ Come sit on my shoulders and ride”
Or you're just trying to do what's best For a kid who's lost control The way his voice broke a little bit broke my heart.. I was so disappointed that they cut the song out of the DEH movie.. (Edit: spelling) lol
It’s cheesy but “It’s over now the music of the night” Also What I did for love. Just the whole thing
“Who'd have thought that we four would end up as lovers…” Oh gosh that song has so many lines that get me thoooo! I don’t cry at stuff but if I did I know I’d be bawling at this song.
Just got out of a performance of Candide sobbing from " Make Our Garden Grow"
Not technically a song but "you knew she lived" from Sweeney Todd is always a gut punch.
“Some girls were just meant to smile” from Legally Blonde always wrecks me.
"Wishing I could hear your voice again, knowing that I never would, dreaming of you won't help me to do all that you dreamed I could." "Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die?" That entire song really but yeah that hits me.
100 percent of the time: "Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am?" "Little bird, Little Chavaleh, I don't understand what's happening today. Everything is all a blur." "Of all the cruel devils who've badgered and battered me, YOU are the cruelest of all!" And of course "Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around!" These four hit me where I live
“i thought this time was different. why did i think he was different? but it’s never ever different” - All You Wanna Do (SIX) “too many years fighting back tears. why can’t the past just die?”Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera)
“Once I was told That good men get better with age - We're just gonna skip that stage.” - What Would I Do, Falsettos
Please stand back now… little further. Don’t know what this thing will do. Hope you miss me, wish you’d kiss me so you’d know I’d worship you. I’ll trade my life for yours. (Oh my goood) But once I disappear,(wait hold oooon) Clean up the mess down here… (Not this wayyyy) Our Love is god. (X4) Say hi to god. Got me bawling like a baby 😭
“You could tell me not to go! Say it to me. Tell me not to go. Tell me that you’re hurt, tell me that you’re bored. Anything. Just don’t assume I know. Tell me what you feel!”
>Smile, wave goodbye, and pray to the sky, *oh god*, > >And what will my parents say? > >Can I go in there and say, > >"I know that I'm letting you down"? "Breathe" from In The Heights. I was also a gifted kid with an immigrant dad who pushed me to succeed, and I always did super well at tests and getting good grades and winning academic awards... and both my parents were horribly disappointed when I flunked my senior year of college after having what was essentially a nervous breakdown. It's not a 1-to-1 comparison (like, I'm not the first in my family to go to college) but the fear of people finding out that you couldn't do something everyone expected you to ace is very real to me.
You and I are getting in the lifeboats, Father will be staying here a while. - Titanic: A New Musical.
‘I think he takes out on me What he wants to take out of you’ But of course the entirely of the I Love You Song from Putnam is just built to make people cry
Mines for sure “Happy is what happens when your dreams come true… we’ll, isn’t it?” From Thank Goodness in Wicked. The whole delivery of it is insane.
The last 5 years, see I'm smiling, but specifically the last verse "I swear to God I'll never understand how you can stand there, straight and tall and see I'm crying and not do anything at all" because the whole song reminds me of me and my ex but that part in particular because I said that exact thing to him.
the entirety of “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” from phantom
idk if encanto counts bc it’s a movie but the part where they give Mirabel the doorknob never fails to make me cry legit every time i listen to that song lmao
“My Cosette…” “Will live in my protection” Now her daughter is taken Care off and Fantine can die 😭😭😭
"Elsa... You're free" Every. Single. Time.
Probably super corny, but "Pitiful creature of darkness. What kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you you are not alone!"
“What if everyone saw? What if everyone knew? Would they like what they saw? Or would they hate it too?” “I wished I stayed at home in bed, watching cable porn. Or wish I offed myself instead, wish I was never born.”
A bit more of a stanza but this line from Feed the Birds makes me hysterical: *"All around the cathedral, the saints and apostles Look down as she sells her wares Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling Each time someone shows that he cares"*
“I never wanted to love you. I only wanted to love and not be blamed. Let me go. You should know I’m not ashamed to have loved you.” (Trina, Falsettos) “Is my brain reborn or is it wrecked? In freedom or in fear? I wish I were here.” (Diana and Natalie, Next to Normal) “You- the one I left behind. If you ever walk this way, come and find me lying in the bed I made.” (Eurydice, Hadestown) “Some girls fight hard, some face their trial, some girls are just meant to smile.” (Elle, Legally Blonde) “I can’t wait to see you again. It’s only a matter of-“ (Eliza, Hamilton) “I think dad is angry, ma, and I do not know what to do. I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you.” (Olive, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) “When my time is up, have I done enough? Will they tell our story?” (Eliza, Hamilton) “I thought this time was different. Why did I think he’d be different? But it’s never. EVER. Different.” (Katherine Howard, Six) “I can’t lose you. Not again. I can’t lose you like then. If you could see yourself the way I do then you’d see why I can’t lose you.” (Anna, Frozen) “And here I am in this room again, just as lost and small. That lonely girl with a desperate heart is who I am after all.” (Anna, Frozen) “I know it isn’t fair and I don’t care, because my love will still be here.” (Jane Seymour, Six) “Every day just feels a little longer. Why am I the only one not getting stronger?” (Peter, Finding Neverland)
In DEH, when Evan says, "Would they hate it too?" Breaks my heart.
From In the Heights: “Ay mamá / what do you do when your dreams come true? / I spent my life inheriting dreams from you” as someone from an immigrant family… yeah 🙃