Alice by Heart - Your Shell of Grief Lyrics

2019 Off-Broadway
Alice by Heart the Musical - Your Shell of Grief Lyrics

"Your Shell of Grief" was written by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, performed by Noah Galvin (Mock Turtles) & Molly Gordon (Alice).

MOCK TURTLE:
Just cry and it's a crisis
You sigh and put the "si" back in "silence"
My tortoise taught "don't pee in the sea"
Give into your grief like me

MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
Don't bother with denial
Bereavement is the key to survival
That tortoise was my husband you see
Live and breathe your grief like me

ALICE:
Mock me I'm living in shock here
My cheeks thick with tears

MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
My heart is a dark polar block, dear
No one comes near

MOCK MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
No loss could ever match mine
They weep the weep but I lost my Rabbi
My tortoise taught us Torah, you see
Meet yourself in grief like me

ALICE:
Mock me I'm living in shock here
Such pearls are my tears

MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
My heart is a mock Loch Ness Monster

ALICE & MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
Just don't come near

MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
My life has lost all porpoise

ALICE:
I lost my hare

MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
I lost my hair

MOCK TURTLE:
I lost my tortoise
So, so, I sing King Lear-y-ily

MOCK MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
Kvell within your shell like me
Just build a wall

MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
That's better

MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
Retract your head

MOCK TURTLE:
You won't get wetter

MOCK MOCK MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
Love is brief

MOCK MOCK TURTLE:
And time's a thief

TURTLES:
Climb into your shell of grief

MOCK TURTLE: (spoken)
So sweet...

Alice by Heart the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
West of Words
Down the Hole
Still
Chillin' the Regrets
The Key Is
Those Long Eyes
Manage Your Flamingo
Sick to Death of Alice-ness
Brillig Braelig
Some Things Fall Away
Your Shell of Grief
Another Room in Your Head
Isn't It a Trial?
Do You Think We Think You're Alice?
I've Shrunk Enough
Afternoon
Winter Blooms