Ragtime - Back to Before Lyrics |
Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - Back to Before Lyrics
"Back to Before" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Marin Mazzie (Mother).
mother: there was a time our happiness seemed neverending. i was so sure that where we were heading was right. life was a road so certain and straight and unbending. our little road with never a crossroad in sight. back in the days when we spoke in civilized voices- women in white and sturdy young men at the oar. back in the days when i let you make all my choices. we can never go back to before. there was a time my feet were so solidly planted. you'd sail away while i turned my back to the sea. i was content, a princess asleep and enchanted. if i had dreams, then i let you dream them for me. back in the days when everything seemed so much clearer. women in white who knew what their lives held in store. where are they now, those women who stared from the mirror? we can never go back to before. there are people out there unafraid of revealing that they might have a feeling, or they might have been wrong. there are people out there unafraid to feel sorrow, unafraid of tomorrow, unafraid to be weak, unafraid to be strong... there was a time when you were the person in motion. i was your wife. it never occurred to want more. you were my sky, my moon and my stars and my ocean. we can never go back to before. we can never go back to before!
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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