quotes i like from depressing introspective musicals i love part 1
i don’t know why people run, i don’t know why things fall through…i could say no and goodbye, but why, jaime, why?
see, we’re laughing… i think we’re gonna be okay… see, you’re laughing and i’m smiling… and you’re mine… we’re doing fine.
wait for me… i’ll hurry!… wait for me, hurry!
you’re sorry-grateful, regretful-happy.
you don’t live for her, you do live with her. you’re scared she’s starting to drift away- and scared she’ll stay.
marry me a little, do it with a will. make a few demands i’m able to fulfill. want me more than others, not exclusively.
you’re always wondering what might have been, then she walks in. and still you’re sorry, and still you’re grateful, and still you wonder, and still you doubt, and she goes out.
make me confused! mock me with praise! let me be used, vary my days… for alone is alone, not alive!
we’ll be the one thing in this world that won’t hurt.
you know i love you. i love you as much as i can.
let’s be scared together. slap my face, or hold me till winter.
do you know? all i want is you. anything you do is all right, yes, it’s alright. do you know?
the last five years/company/next to normal/falsettos/
the falsettos lyric parallel from “love stinks, love is pretty often debris, when you find what you find then never never never never never do it over again” to “do you regret?” “i’d do it again. i’d like to believe that i’d do it again and again and again” is so pretty my god
good morning to homosexuals, women with children, short insomniacs, teeny tiny bands, spiky lesbians, women internists, shiksa caterers, pretty boys, ex-ex-lovers, hypochondriacs, yiddish americans, and nervous wrecks
look, guys, i have been putting off posting this for a whILE (for,, good reason,, as you can see-) but it’s been stuck in my camera roll for too long, so, i present to you:
so normally i’d listen to In Trousers to study, right? so i’m working on this project and after going through the whole soundtrack, i decide to put on the original cast recording of march of the falsettos + falsettoland, bcs y'know, fit in with the trilogy, plus it’d be a change cause i normally listen to the revival.
just finished the soundtrack. i realised my grave mistake abt a half hour ago but didn’t have the heart to turn it off. anyways, we are Sad. WHY DO I KEEP FORGETTING HOW MUCH THIS MUSICAL HURTS ME /lh
I’m so glad they changed “this was Jason’s first great idea” to “this was Jason’s brilliant idea”.
Like damn, it’s his bar mitzvah, Marvin ✋ no need to read him
NO BUT FR THOUGH, like, the kid is upset and it’s his special day, cut him some slack + give him a mf break i stg-
just re-listened to the 1990 version (i had only rlly listened to it properly like once or twice), and i’ve realised it’s “first-rate” not “first great”. also just checked the comments, turns out other people knew it was “first-rate” too, djsjcjdkf i’m a himbo
that’ll teach me to look up the lyrics in future djdkfjdkf weLp
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