Jasper in Deadland - The Forgetting Lyrics |
A thrilling musical from Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster Jasper in Deadland The Musical - The Forgetting Lyrics
[Spoken] [JASPER] Why am I having a hard time... [GRETCHEN] Remembering? It's starting. The Forgetting. It happens in phases.
[Sung] It’s a process. First, you die As you fall from life to death You fall into the lethe Board the ferry Pay your fare And you think, “I had a thought…” But you forgot Just forgot
[Spoken] The first stage is the headaches
[Sung] So it starts Small details begin to blur, 'Till the person that you were Seems so distant Was that you? As each memory erases The photos of familiar faces Smudge and blot But you won’t care a lot You’ll forget you forgot
[Spoken] The second stage you start to forget others. Your friends, your parents. The third stage you start speaking in Portuguese. [JASPER] Portuguese? [GRETCHEN] No one knows why.
[Sung] Now, it isn’t uncommon to Try to stop it To fight for your life Never to lose sight of your life It’s tragically normal to Jot it down To write all your life, Gripping tight to your life
You make notes in a book So to fight the forgetting You might keep the best things And omit what’s upsetting But as days pass you look in your book just to find That the book that you took serves one purpose To remind you of all of the people you’ll never see again, For even when they come They’ll end up just as dumb and then
[Spoken] The last stage: you forget yourself. And suddenly you feel OK.
[Sung] At last it stops And you toss the book for trash Or you torch the book to ash Just like they did Just like me And you’ll learn like other folk That life is just a joke A trick of glass and smoke A dream from which you’ve woke
[Thanks to Abram for lyrics] [Thanks to Ryan Cutler for corrections]
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