Spring Awakening - Left Behind Lyrics

2006 Broadway
Spring Awakening: the Musical - Left Behind Lyrics

MELCHIOR
You fold his hands, and smooth his tie
You gently lift his chin –
Were you really so blind, and unkind to him?

Can’t help the itch to touch, to kiss
To hold him once again
Now to close his eyes, never open them

ALL
A shadow passed, a shadow passed
Yearning, yearning for the fool it called a home

MELCHIOR
All things he never did are left behind
All the things his Mama wished he’d bear in mind
And all his Dad had hoped he know

ALL
O-o-o-o-o-o-

MELCHIOR
The talks you never had
The Saturdays you never spent
All the grown-up places you never went

And all of the crying you wouldn’t understand
You just let him cry – “Make a man out of him.”

ALL
A shadow passed, a shadow passed
Yearning, yearning for the fool it called a home

MELCHIOR
All things he ever wished are left behind
All the things his Mama did to make him mind
And how his Dad had hoped he’d grow

All things he ever lived are left behind
All the fears that ever flickered through his mind
All the sadness that he'd come to own

ALL
O-o-o-o-o-o
O-o-o-o-o-o
O-o-o-o-o-o-o

A shadow passed, a shadow passed
Yearning, yearning for the fool it called a home

MELCHIOR
And, it whistles through the ghosts still left behind
It whistles through the ghosts still left behind
It whistles through the ghosts still left behind
O-o-

[Thanks to Gavin for corrections]


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Spring Awakening the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Mamma Who Bore Me
Mamma Who Bore Me (Reprise)
All That's Known
The Bitch Of Living
My Junk
Touch Me
The Word Of Your Body
The Dark I Know Well
And Then There Were None
The Mirror-Blue Night
I Believe
Don't Do Sadness
Blue Wind
The Guilty Ones
Left Behind
Totally Fucked
The Word Of Your Body (Reprise)
Whispering
Those You've Known
The Song Of Purple Summer