Suffs - How Long? Lyrics

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Suffs the Musical - How Long? Lyrics


The song is written by Shaina Taub.

ALICE:
She was enchanting, magnetic, unapologetic
It was almost annoying how easily
She seemed to shine
You could hide nothing from her
She read you like a book

She’d have been wrecked
By the results of this election
But she’d have poured us a drink
And reminded us not to lose hope
She knew her smile was all that it took

The last thing she said was the question
We’re now asking over
And over as we look back
As we look forward

ALL:
How long must women wait for liberty?   
How long must we wait?
Must we wait?
Must we wait?

LUCY:
She went into trial, a laugh on her lips

DORIS:
She once told me discouragement
Only excited her

CARRIE:
So brilliant a speaker we can’t afford to lose

MARY, PHYLLIS & RUZA:
She belonged to life

MARY:
To the struggling actuality of the earth

SUFFS:
I used to wish I could be in her shoes
With her voice ringing out
The centuries seemed like repetitions
Of an ancient song, singing:
How long must women wait for liberty?
How long must we wait?
Must we wait?
Must we wait?
How many more marches in the streets?   
How many more efforts gone to waste?
How many more deafening defeats?
How many more histories erased?

IDA:
How many more dignities deferred?
How many more told to know our place?
How many more girls will go unheard?

ALL:
How many more doors shut in our face?
How many more Joans burned at the stake?
How many more of us will it take?

How long?
How long?
How long til it’s too late?
Will we wait?
Will we wait?

DORIS: (spoken)
Alice, what do we do now?

ALL
WILL WE WAIT?

ALICE: (spoken)
Meet me at the White House gates at dawn.

ALL
Will we wait? Will we wait?

ALICE
We won’t wait another day

LUCY, RUZA, DORIS
We won’t wait another day

ALL
We won’t wait another day
We won’t wait
We won’t wait
We won’t

We won’t wait another day
We won’t wait another day
We won’t wait another day
We won’t wait, We won’t wait,
We won’t
We won’t wait,
We won’t wait,
We won’t
We won’t wait,
We won’t wait,
We won’t wait



Review: Suffs the Musical Lyrics


Suffs the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching