Water for Elephants - I Choose the Ride Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Water for Elephants the Musical - I Choose the Ride Lyrics

The song is written by PigPen Theatre Co.

CAMEL:
If you've got somewhere to go back to
Maybe it's hard
Maybe it's bleak
Words were said
Maybe your daddy smacked you
If you got somewhere
Go back and patch the leak

If you got people thinking of you
Maybe they're wrong
Maybe you're right
Even if you think that they don't love
At least it's somewhere
To fall asleep at night

'Cause this place ain't even a place
This place ain't no kinda home
It's just a way to get
From nowhere to nowhere else
If you've got somewhere to go back to
You should go

JACOB:
If you'd asked a week ago
I would have said yes
Somewhere to go back to
A home that was blessed
With light
The future looked bright

How fast it all can change
The blink of an eye
Your future can disappear
And people can die

CAMEL:
Hey, who we talkin' about son?

JACOB: (spoken)
My folks. Car crash.
Police said it was instant

(sung)
I don't have somewhere to go back to
My folks, they're gone
The house
The one that I grew up in
Belongs to the bank now
So I moved on

ENSEMBLE:
This place
This place
This place
This place

JACOB:
This place is always in motion
This place is so alive
If it's a choice
Between nothing and nowhere
I choose the nowhere on wheels
I choose the ride

ENSEMBLE:
This place

JACOB:
This place is always in motion

ENSEMBLE:
This place

JACOB:
This place is so alive

ENSEMBLE:
This place

JACOB:
If it's a choice between
This place and anywhere
I choose the nowhere on wheels
I choose the rattle of steel
I choose the circus
I choose

ALL:
The ride

Water for Elephants the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Anywhere/Another Train
Easy
The Lion Has Got No Teeth
I Choose the Ride
Ode to an Elephant
I Shouldn't Be Surprised
Silver Stars
The Grand Spec
Zostań
You've Got Nothing, Pt. 1
You've Got Nothing, Pt. 2
What Do You Do?
Wild
The Road Don't Make You Young
Go Home
I Choose the Ride (Reprise)