Suffs - I Was Here Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - I Was Here Lyrics


The song is written by Shaina Taub.

ENSEMBLE:
I've never felt so alive before
Out here together
I realize I'm not alone anymore
I feel a part of something bigger
Than me (I feel a part of)
Something bigger exploding open
I feel my world completely change
I finally feel it change

IDA: (spoken)
Hello, Ida Wells speaking

MARY: (spoken)
It's Mary,
Here with Phyllis in Nashville

IDA: (spoken)
And?
Mary, what happened?

MARY: (spoken)
It passed

IDA: (spoken)
They did it

MARY: (spoken)
We did it

IDA: (spoken)
Go on now
Tell me how much easier
This all would have been
Without my troublemakin'

MARY: (spoken)
Not this time

IDA: (spoken)
I bet all the white ladies
Were cryin' rivers, huh?

PHYLLIS: (spoken)
Oh, they sure were
But me and Mama,
We danced our way right
Out the State House
Didn't we?

IDA: (spoken)
Your mama dancin'
Now I would like to see that

MARY: (spoken)
I like to dance, okay?

IDA: (spoken)
They'll still stop our women from voting
Same as they do to our men

MARY: (spoken)
I know
But I'm so tired of fightin'

PHYLLIS:
As so, lifting as we climb
Onward and upward we go

PHYLLIS: (spoken)
Say it, Mama

MARY:
And so

IDA:
Lifting as we climb

IDA, MARY & PHYLLIS:
Onward and upward we go
And so, lifting as we climb
Onward and upward we go

MARY:
I want my mother to know I was here

IDA:
I want my sisters to know I was here

PHYLLIS:
I want my great-granddaughter
To know I was here

MARY:
I was here

IDA & PHYLLIS, MARY:
I want your mother to know I was here
(I was here)
I want your children to know I was here

IDA, MARY & PHYLLIS:
I want your great-granddaughter to know
I need her to know I was here



Review: Suffs the Musical Lyrics


Suffs the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching