Flying Over Sunset - The Music Plays On Lyrics

2021 Broadway
Flying Over Sunset the Musical - The Music Plays On Lyrics

The song is written by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie. Performed by Harry Hadden-Paton (Aldous), Laura Shoop (Maria) and company.

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
Hm hm hm
Hm hm hm

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: (spoken)
What is that tune you’re humming?

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
When the stars
When the stars begin to, something
And the dark

MARIA HUXLEY:
When the stars begin to fade

ALDOUS HUXLEY: (spoken)
Fade, of course
And the dark?

MARIA HUXLEY:
Gives way to dawn

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
Dawn, a bit hokey you know

MARIA HUXLEY:
As the dancers bow farewell for now

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
The music plays on

MARIA HUXLEY:
The music plays on

ALDOUS HUXLEY: (spoken)
Of course

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
As the monster, I mean master

MARIA HUXLEY:
Maestro

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
Maestro ends the waltz
With a wave of his b, b, b, banana?

MARIA HUXLEY:
Baton
A wilted bloom that sends the room

BOTH:
The music plays on

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
When the candles burn to

MARIA HUXLEY:
???

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
When they dim the

MARIA HUXLEY:
Chandelier

BOTH:
In your eyes the incandescence of your passion draws me near

MARIA HUXLEY:
Like a ghostly ?
To a world of grace long gone
In the ? within my mind it’s you I’m leaning upon
In the memory of our love the music plays on

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
Like the ripples on a scream

MARIA HUXLEY: (spoken)
A scream?

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
A stream
Like the ripples on a stream

OTHER:
Language has begun to escape me

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
In the passing of a, uh

A boat?

MARIA HUXLEY:
A star?

OTHER:
It has to rhyme with on

OTHER:
A fawn?

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
Gerald a fawn?

OTHER:
Fawns are very beautiful Aldous

ALDOUS HUXLEY:
It’s a water image!

OTHER:
A prawn?
Swan!

Flying Over Sunset the Musical Lyrics

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