2024 Broadway 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
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