Ragtime - He Wanted to Say Lyrics |
Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - He Wanted to Say Lyrics
"He Wanted to Say" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Steven Sutcliffe (Younger Brother), Judy Kaye (Emma Goldman), and Coalhouse's Gang.
Younger Brother: I should very much like to speak to Mr. Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
Coalhouse Gang Member: Try turning around and going back where you came from, cracker.
Coalhouse: What is it you want?
Younger Brother: I...I...I want to...I know that if...
Emma Goldman: HE WANTED TO SAY I AM SICK OF THE INJUSTICES. HE WANTED TO SAY I HAVE PASSION IN MY HEART. IN A WORLD OF CALLOW STRANGERS, LET YOUR DANGERS BE MY DANGERS, LET THIS BE THE BATTLE IN WHICH I WAS BORN TO TAKE PART.
HE WANTED TO SAY
Younger Brother: I REJECT THE WORLD'S COMPLACENCY.
Emma: HE WANTED TO SAY
Younger Brother: GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BELIEVE.
Both: IN MY SOUL I AM YOUR BROTHER. WE ARE BOUND TO ONE ANOTHER ANGERED BY THE DARKNESS OF LIFE AND THE LIES WE PERCEIVE.
Emma: BUT ALL HE SAID WAS-
Younger Brother: I know how to blow things up.
Emma and others: HE WANTED TO SAY
Younger Brother: I AM NOT WHO I APPEAR TO BE.
Emma and others: HE WANTED TO SAY
Younger Brother: DO NOT BLAME ME FOR MY PAST.
All: EVERY DAY I WAKE UP KNOWING SOMETHING'S LOST AND SOMETHING'S OWING. THIS WAS DEEP INSIDE ME AND YOU HELPED ME FIND IT AT LAST!
Emma: (simultaneously with Younger Brother and others) WE ARE COMRADES IN THE STRUGGLE THAT GOES ON ACROSS THE EARTH! COMRADES IN THE STRUGGLE, BROTHERS, YOU AND I! IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE BROTHERS,
Younger Brothers and others: (simultaneously with Emma) ALL ACROSS THE EARTH! BROTHERS, YOU AND I!
All: WE MUST FIGHT FOR ALL WE'RE WORTH WITH DYNAMITE AND WIRE AND SHEER DESIRE, WE'LL LIGHT THE HEAVENS AND SHOW THE BASTARDS
Emma and Younger Brother: FIRE IN THE SKY!
Others: FIRE IN THE SKY!
All: FIRE IN THE SKY!
Coalhouse's Men: HE WANTED TO SAY
Coalhouse: HOW I ENVY YOU YOUR INNOCENCE.
Coalhouse's Men: HE WANTED TO SAY
Coalhouse: YOU'RE A FOOL AS WELL AS BRAVE.
All: (except Younger Brother) IN MY SOUL I AM YOUR BROTHER. WE ARE BOUND TO ONE ANOTHER, ANGERED BY THE DARKNESS OF LIFE AND THIS TRIP TO THE GRAVE.
Coalhouse: ONE LAST TRIP TO THE GRAVE.
Emma: BUT ALL HE SAID WAS-
Coalhouse: We have rules here.
Younger Brother: I'll follow them.
Coalhouse: There is no turning back.
Younger Brother: None.
What do you call yourselves?
Coalhouse: We are righteous men. We call ourselves Coalhouse.
Younger Brother: Coalhouse.
Followers: Coalhouse.
Younger Brother, Coalhouse, and Men: Now we're all Coalhouse.
Other Songs: Ragtime the Musical Lyrics
Ragtime the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Prologue Goodbye My Love Journey On The Crime of the Century What Kind of Woman A Shtetl Iz Amereke Success His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Getting' Ready Rag Henry Ford Nothing Like the City Your Daddy's Son The Courtship New Music Wheels of a Dream The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square Gliding The Trashing of the Car Justice President Till We Reach That Day Harry Houdini Master Escapist Coalhouse's Soliloquy Coalhouse Demands What a Game Fire in the City Atlantic City Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. Our Children Harlem Nightclub Sarah Brown Eyes He Wanted to Say Back to Before Look What You've Done Make Them Hear You Wheels of a Dream (reprise)
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