Once on This Island - Ti Moune Lyrics

Broadway production (1990)
Once on This Island the Musical - Ti Moune Lyrics

(Music by Stephen Flaherty and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens)

[MAMA]
What can I say to stop you now
Now that you've heard your drums
And seen your dancers
Now that you think your heart has
All the answers...
Who knows how high
Those mountains climb
Who knows how deep
Those rivers flow
Who knows how wrong
A dream can go
Ti Moune

[TONTON]
I won't be there to guide your way

[MAMA]
To braid your hair or dry your tears

[BOTH]
As we have done these many years
Ti Moune
Ti Moune

[TONTON]
What you are, we made you
What we gave, you took
Now you run without
One backward look

[MAMA]
You'll find some other boy to save
Some other life that you can share
Your heart is young
New dreams are everywhere
Choose your dreams with care
Ti Moune

[TI MOUNE (spoken)]
But I have chosen, Mama,
I'm not a child any longer.
What I am, you made me
What you gave, I owe
But, if I look back, I'll never go
Who knows how high
Those mountains climb

[MAMA, TONTON]
Who knows how high
Those mountains climb

[TI MOUNE]
Who knows how deep
Those rivers flow

[MAMA, TONTON]
Who knows how deep
Those rivers flow

[TI MOUNE]
I know he's there
That's all I need to know...

[TONTON]
Go and find your love

[MAMA]
Go and swim the sea

[BOTH]
You know where we'll be

[TI MOUNE]
Always there with me...

[ALL THREE]
Ti Moune

[Thanks to Dani Starr for lyrics]


Read more: Once on This Island the Musical Lyrics
Ti Moune Lyrics from Once on This Island


Once on This Island the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
We Dance
One Small Girl
Waiting for Life
And the Gods Heard Her Prayer
Rain
Pray
Forever Yours
The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes
Ti Moune
Mama Will Provide
Some Say
The Human Heart
Pray (Reprise)
Some Girls
The Ball
When We Are Wed
Forever Yours (Reprise)
A Part of Us
Why We Tell the Story