WINNIE: today is the day; I've been waiting forever. It's the first day of August, 1893. Tonight there's a fair, and if handled just so, I might get my mother to say I can go...
MRS FOSTER: Winnie!
WINNIE: coming, Mother! Getting out of the house happens, well, never; there's a gate and a lock and rules to abide. I wish I had wings; I'd look good in a pair. But if wings are too much, at least give me the fair. Let this be the day I stay out all evening and fall right into step as the band starts to play. Not another boring day in Treegap, New Hampshire... I can't live like this forever!
MAE: today is the day, the waiting is over; tonight we will be a family again. My boys will be home by the end of the day. I can't wait; I should wait... no, I'll meet them halfway. Let this be the day I'm free of this cabin, where the only thing that moves is the clock on the wall. Better off to start the haul, to start the haul to Treegap, New Hampshire. I can't live like this, can't live like this forever.
MILES: off the train in New Hampshire and it's back in an instant; the feeling that I'm somewhere I don't belong.
JESSE: hello, Treegap, New Hampshire! Catch me up on what's new. Your silo, I see, still has the best view.
MILES (simultaneously with Jesse's lines below): I swear, almost there. This town never outgrows me, unaware... I'll never know why.
JESSE (simultaneously with Miles's lines above): I swear, is there anyone who still knows me? Almost there. Unaware... I'll never know why.
BOTH: this world chose me to-
JESSE: live like this.
MILES: live like this.
JESSE: live like this.
BOTH: live like this forever.
MAN IN THE YELLOW SUIT: today a new town, and a new one tomorrow. My whole life employed to a traveling fair. You may wonder why the old barker barks on. It's the trail no one knows I have stumbled upon. Let this be the day that I learn the secret and find what holds the key to what I'm looking for. I will knock on every door in Treegap, New Hampshire. To live like this, live like this forever!
WINNIE: let this be the day when something will happen...
MAN IN THE YELLOW SUIT: something will happen!
WINNIE: let me see the fair, let my mother agree!
MAE: let me see my boys.
ALL: I feel it all coming over me in Treegap, New Hampshire... I will...
GROUP ONE: live like this, I could live like this...
GROUP TWO: live like this, live like this...
ALL: forever! Forever! I could live like this forever! Live like this forever!
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Lyrics Book: Tuck Everlasting
FanfictionThere weren't any lyric books for the musical "Tuck Everlasting," so... I'm gonna be the first one!
