(Back in February) I was three weeks into the most high-stakes acting job of my LIFE (and SURVIVING OFF OF THE PAY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER) in NYC when quarantine closed all Broadway theaters.
So sometimes ya just gotta write a whole sappy song about how important theater is to you, how theater is a part of you, and how terribly you miss it.
(track photo taken by Luz - from "Mamma Mia!" at the Phoenicia Playhouse, 2018)
lyrics
(spoken)
I remember all the hours I spent underneath your light
warm at first, then burning into my skin and my face
a slow pain
like only the sun, or loneliness, can bring
I take refuge in the wings
lean against the curtained, big black, starless sky
wish the glitter on her cheeks was yours,
wish the sleek black shoes and crisp old suit
walking away, could be on you
at least here maybe you can choose,
how folks see you and breathe you in
maybe here, for once, you can win?
[CHORUS] (sung)
you were the net I fell into when everybody else fell through
what little light they let me keep, I'd always share with you
I'd take the burning of your metal suns over the cold
life has kept few promises, but with you...
for you, I promise to grow old
(spoken)
I guess I didn't know what I had when I had it -
isn't that how it always goes?
I'd never been so close. I'd never felt the metal suns grow up
until they burnt out into plasma,
felt notes wash over and out from my lungs like sand between my toes
That little girl on the stage ten years ago would have wept
if he could see the man on stage
come into life, breath their voice into the room
It didn't feel too soon
when my voice was washing over airways, twice in a day,
when I was surrounded by friends wherever I lay.
I didn't imagine that after all the waiting,
you wouldn't stay.
🎃 He/Him 🎃
I'm a soft 'lil Jewish actor/songwriter from the Hudson Valley of NY.
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