Team StarKid: the Lyrics

Song #5: When the World's At Stake

{Sung entirely by Mother.}

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At first, I didn't want it. Her daddy... well, we didn't fit. But I couldn't swing it, I was scared to do it alone. Seventeen and pregnant- not what I had in mind. Her daddy was a farmer, but not the wealthy kind. I wanted to be a dancer, but not the kind I did for pay. Who was this new person that was getting in my way? I could've walked out, left her for dead; cut her out with my own hands- but something in me was kickin' and screamin' to live. When the world's at stake, there are lives to save. And even though I shake my hands at God, I pray, 'let her have a better life than I can provide.' Lord have mercy on my soul as I try to do her right... It took a long, long time to understand God's plan for me- He threw me down the river, beat my flush in Kankakee. By the time my water broke, I was deep in my own debt, but when I saw her face, it was easy to forget. I knew I had to get her away, take her to where my debt was paid. A new beginning, a place I'd never been and never seen. When the world's at stake, all your dreams, they change, and every step you take is for another's sake. And even if she grows to hate me, I won't change my course of heart. Lord have mercy on my soul if we ever grow apart. You think I resent her very being? That maybe I regret her ever needing a mother. Is it wrong that I enjoy to right her? I may be rash and overprotecting, not bitter. I suppose I could be softer... I can do better, hold you closer, I'm learning that as I grow older, I'm the one to forgive. When the world's at stake, all your dreams, they change, and it feels so great to watch the one you saved be the most adoring person your mom has ever known. Lord have mercy on my soul, and let my dreams be all her own. When my world's at stake...