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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Agnes
What is Life?
The Killing
Mark This!
Deadland Welcome / Tour Song / Jasper in Deadland
Jasper in Deadland
The Forgetting
Living Dead
Hungry for Your Heart
Stroke by Stroke
The Remembering
Memory: Something for Real
Beat and Broken Spirits
Awful People
Elysium
Lifesong
The Trade / The Swim
One More Day of Snow