Ragtime - New Music Lyrics

Broadway production 1998
Ragtime the Musical - New Music Lyrics

"New Music" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Mark Jacoby (Father), Marin Mazzie (Mother), Steven Sutcliffe (Younger Brother), Coalhouse, Audra McDonald (Sarah), and Company.

[FATHER]
Where have I been?
How did we change,
Caught in this strange
New music?
Say,
Was I away too long?

[MOTHER]
Just like that tune,
Simple and clear,
I've come to hear
New music.

[FATHER]
New music.

Why,
Why can't you hear the song?

[YOUNGER BROTHER]
His fingers stoke those keys,
And every note says "Please",
And every chord says "Turn my way."

[MOTHER, FATHER]
I thought I knew
What love was but these lovers play...

[MOTHER, FATHER, YOUNGER BROTHER]
New music!
Haunting me,
And somehow taunting me-
My love was never half as true.

[FATHER]
And I as myself,
Why can't I sing it too?

[WORKERS, NEIGHBORS]
His fingers stoke those keys,
And every note says "Please",
And every chord says "Turn my way."

[WORKERS, NEIGHBORS, FAMILY]
I thought I knew
What love was
but these lovers play
New music!

[ALL]
Haunting me,
And somehow taunting me-
My love was
Never half as true.

[COALHOUSE]
Sarah, my life has changed.
Sarah, you've got to see.
Sarah, we got a son!
Sarah, come down to me...

[SARAH]
You and your music
Singing deep in me,
Making nice to me,
Saying something so new-

[COALHOUSE]
New

[SARAH]
Changing everything,
Meaning everything,

[COALHOUSE]
Music

[SARAH]
Calling my heart to you...     

[COALHOUSE]
All for you, girl.
You, Sarah.

[SARAH]
Play that melody,
Your sweet melody,
Calling my heart to you.

[COALHOUSE]
You.

[ALL (except Coalhouse & Sarah)]
Just like that tune,
Simple and clear,
I've come to hear
New music-
Breaking my heart,
Op'ning a door,
Chamging the world!
New music!
I'll
Hear it forevermore!

Ragtime the Musical New Music Lyrics


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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)