Post Quiz - Deathless Lyrics: Answers
Created | Updated Dec 30, 2018
Deathless Lyrics: Answers
Let's face it: musicals are like operas, only for more popular tastes. Nobody really cares what they're about, as long as they sound good. These hit songs hit all the right notes for many people. It's still funny to reflect on their meaning in the context of the musicals' wild stories.
| 1. Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short When you reach September... | 1. A gumpy Dutch dictator. Pieter Stuyvesant in Knickerbocker Holiday. |
| 2. Every street lamp seems to beat A fatalistic warning Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning.... | 2. A cat. Grizabella in Cats. |
| 3. Mapping out a sky. What it feels like, planning a sky.... | 3. A Pointillist painter. Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George. |
| 4. I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It's not on any chart.... | 4. A fairy. Peter Pan in Peter Pan. |
| 5. A dream that will need All the love you can give Every day of your life For as long as you live.... | 5. A nun.The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music. |
| 6. At the end of a storm There's a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark.... | 6. A relative, to a victim of spousal abuse. Nettie Fowler in Carousel. |
| 7. With no star to guide me And no one beside me I'll go on my way And after the day That darkness will hide me.... | 7. A victim of class inequity, to God. Cocky in The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd. |
| 8. There is no death though eyes grow dim, There is no fear when I'm near to him.... | 8. A postage-stamp prince. Karl in The Student Prince. |
| 9. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.... | 9. A US Marine officer. Lt Cable in South Pacific. |
| 10. To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause.... | 10. An escaped mental patient. Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha. |
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