Also, this weekend I'll be starting a new crocheting project. I plan on making a carrying tote for my mom for mother's day. It will be a little late, but I couldn't figure out what else to get for her, so I thought of this last minute. I'm excited to see how it turns out.
I'm almost done with The Vampire Diaries roughly 130 pages left to read, which I will hopefully get done with this weekend as well.
On a side note: today I was struck with the urge to listen to the soundtrack to Broadway Musical Wicked, which is based off Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: The Life and Time's of the Wicked Witch of the West. Gregory Maguire's novel is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's original novel, The Wizard of Oz. Gregory Maguire's version of the story tells, in my opinion, a much better version of the tale of the Witches of Oz than L. Frank Baum's version. Of course this made me desperately miss NYC and made me really want to go see Wicked again.
Anyway - I thought I'd share one of the most influential songs, for me anyway, of the broadway musical. It's called For Good and it is performed by Glinda (Kristin Chenoweth), who, in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, becomes The Good Witch of the North and Elphaba (Idina Menzel), who, in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, becomes The Wicked Witch of the West. These two form an unlikely friendship that is not captured in L. Frank Baum's original tale.
It is one of my favorite songs because it personally hits home to me. Not only does my best friend live thousands of miles away from me, but I also encounter many military wives, who become my friend and, then, after a couple years we are forced to part; which is very similar to what happens to Glinda and Elphaba in Wicked.
FYI: The bolded parts are parts of the song that especially "speak" to me. Also, I suggest looking up the song on YouTube to hear it being sung by Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, because it becomes especially moving when hearing it performed. So, without further adieu:
(Elphaba) I'm limited
Just look at me - I'm limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...
(Glinda) I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
(Elphaba) It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
(Glinda) Because I knew you
(Both) I have been changed for good
(Elphaba) And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the thing I've done you blame me for
(Glinda) But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
(Both) And none of it seems to matter anymore
(Glinda) Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
(Elphaba) Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
(Both) Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
(Glinda) And because I knew you...
(Elphaba) Because I knew you...
(Both) Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good.
xoxo,
awww that song brought tears to my eyes! :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd that's exciting about your novel!!! Keep on truckin!
<3 love!