#sondheim lyrics

[disastergenius]

inspired by this post

[rosebunnys]

for what you have left undone

and, more, what you've left behind

[its-your-girl-geekerella]

No you don't understand.

It isn't my fault. I was GIVEN those beans; YOU persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans. And without those beans, there'd have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the FIRST PLACE.

[sgtprophet]

So, as we know, Into The Woods is a satire. It is as some level making fun of fairytales. However, I actually think that the most satiric song in the musical is Little Red Riding Hood’s ”I know things now”. Let me explain.

As I said, a lot of the jokes in the musical are slightly making fun of the logic in fairytales, like ”You can talk to birds?”, or ”Two of her tears wetted his eyes and restored his vision”.

So why is Little Red’s number satiric? I mean, she is just talking about how she has learnt new things and will be careful in the future. Well, if we actually take a look at what happened to her, she might just be one of the most traumatized characters in the show.

First off, she is catcalled on the way to her grandma, I hope most ’ know that ”Hello, little girl” is supposed to have some weird sexual undertones since the story is about how kids should not follow predators. Right after that, she does not only find out how her grandmother is dead and eaten up, she also gets eaten up, just to come back.

Later in the musical, we even find out how her mom and grandma has died, and we can assume that both of them are her only guardians, because why wouldn’t she just move in with a father at the end?

However, after a day that would scar someone for life, the song ”I know things now” is basically just her brushing the whole situation off and saying to herself how she will do better next time. I think this makes fun of most fairytales since most of them do not really focus on how the character is mentally.

Rapunzel in the musical is also brings this up but in another way, she is actually a pretty realistic character in the show:

”You just locked me in a tower without company for fourteen years, then blinded my prince, and banished me to a desert where i had little to eat and again no company and then bore twins. Because of the way you treated me I will never ever be happy…”

Sry if this is too long but I never saw someone mention this but I love this musical and wanted to talk about how smart it is.

[madisoncounty]

his dark materials + sondheim lyrics (1/?) → not while i’m around

demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while, but in time... nothing can harm you, not while i'm around

[historyboysalumnus]

whenever I happen to listen to this song I always seem to be on the subway. and let me tell you that combination is never good

[phierecycled]

“it’s me who is the matter talking madder than the maddest hatter” is one of the smartest and most satisfying lyrics i’ve ever heard and we don’t talk about it enough

[droughtofapathy]

The track listing and cover credits for Sondheim and Ives' Here We Are. The album will be released on CD and digital platforms worldwide on Friday, May 17th.

[waitinqroom]

witches can be right! giants can be good! you decide what's right! you decide what's good!

[28ratsinatrenchcoat]

Whenever the Sweeney Todd finale sequence plays, I am possessed by the spirit of Nellie Lovett. I cannot do anything until she dies, and then I get sad and nearly cry thinking about her.

[missmusicalmayhem]

Musical lyrics getting me through the past week #1

"No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods

People make mistakes Fathers, mothers People make mistakes Holding to their own Thinking they're alone Honor their mistakes Fight for their mistakes Everybody makes One another's terrible mistakes Witches can be right, giants can be good You decide what's right, you decide what's good Just remember, just remember Someone is on your side (our side) Our side Someone else is not While we're seeing our side (our side) Our side Maybe we forgot, they are not alone No one is alone

Remember, people make mistakes. We need to honor those mistakes, understand why they were made and what lead people to their choice. They may think they are alone, forgotten, and be living in fear. Sometimes we forget that not everyone is on our side and that they aren't alone because they have their own perspectives and struggles. Empathy is essential even for the people we have started viewing as the "witches" of the world.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

- Stephen Sondheim

[magefelixir]

as i’ve often stated, it’s intolerable being intolerated.

[grntaire]

if i had to guess the big four it would be:

album of the year: cowboy carter or midwest princess

record of the year: good luck babe

song of the year: not like us

best new artist: chappell

[sgtprophet]

How Into The Woods defines ”Nice”

I love how Into The Woods uses the word ”Nice”. Throughout the whole musical, we can see that it sees the word as something that may seem sweet, but deep down only makes it seem “good” to cover up how morally wrong it actually is.

I think one of the biggest telling to the word ”nice” is this line in Little Red’s ”I Know Things Now”:

”Nice is different than good”

She basically had a whole number on why you should always do right even if something else seems nice, hence the lyric.

Just some songs after this number, we can see the usage of this word coming up again in Cinderella’s ”A Very Nice Prince”. This is foreshadowing to her future husband cheatinh on her in act 2. Even the actor of Cinderella’s prince also plays the wolf, another character being described as ”nice.”

“Last Midnight” however, has a powerful lyric which completely describes the whole musical.

”You’re so nice. You’re not good, you’re not bad, you’re just nice. I’m not good, I’m not nice I’m just right.”

She is telling them that saving Jack might seem like the good thing to do, when in reality, the good thing to do (except for killing the giant that they to in the end) is to sacrifice Jack to safe everyone else.

The whole musical’s entire moral is basically how no one is truly good, we’re all just ”nice”. Even the fairytale characters who seemed to get their happy end and the consequenses being basically non-enxistent to them.

We try our best to do what seems good for our situation but end up not seeing the bigger picture and picking the wrong choice, because it is the ”nicest”.

[reinvent-and-believe]

and if i said “unworthy of your love” from the 1990 musical assassins is devil’s minion coded. what then