LYRICS

PROLOGUE LOSS INTO LIFE & DEATH

I am standing on the seashore. A ship

spreads her white sails to the morning

breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand

watching her until she fades on the

horizon. And someone at my side says;

“she is gone.” Gone where? The loss of

sight is in me, not in her. Just at the

moment when someone says, “She is

gone", there are others who are watching

her coming. Other voices take up the

glad shout, "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

MARY

I need an answer

I need a sign

I need to know if

I’m wasting my time

DEBBIE

Please tell me now

I have regrets

It's a matter of

Life and death

CHRISTINA

I need to know

If she still feels the pain

I need to know

If she still feels the same

MARY

I’ll wait all night

CHRISTINA

I’ll hold my breath

MARY, CHRISTINA, DEBBIE

Cause, it's a matter of life and death

DEBBIE

Oh, oh, a oh,

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

Life and death

We're all lost souls

With dreams we can't forget

Life and death

And we ain't leaving

Until our needs are met

MARY

Last time I saw him is

Just a memory

CHRISTINA

Do I have to die?

For her to talk to me

DEBBIE

I need a vision

I need to see

MARY

My life is locked

And he holds the key

CHRISTINA

I have my faith

And I still believe

But it'd be nice

Just to take a peek

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

The stakes are high

We’ll place our bets

Cause it's a matter of

Life and death

DEBBIE

Oh, oh, a oh

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

Life and death

We're all lost souls

With dreams we can't forget

Life and death

And we ain't leaving

Until our needs are met

[Tempo slows down]

MARY

Life goes on without him

It doesn't skip a beat

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

We always think about them

Will we be strangers when we meet?

We're not looking for

The meaning of life

We just want one more chance

To say hello

Before we say goodbye

Good-bye

[Spoken]

JASON

I can help everyone with my gift of

communicating with the spirit world everyone except myself.

DEBBIE

My mother gave me everything I

could ever want. I wasn’t able to

do the same thing for her…I

miss her every day.

CHRISTINA

My daughter Ana committed

suicide when she was twenty-three

and I never saw it coming.

MARY

My son Eddie died thirty years

ago and it still feels like yesterday.

Now as I approach the end of my

own life, I wonder…what happens

next?

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

Life and death

We're all lost souls

With dreams we can't forget

Life and death

Can't help believing

That it ain't over yet

Life and…

Death, death, death

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GOODBYE

MARY

He had his father's smile

He had his sister's heart

He was the family jewel

Now he's the missing part

And though he's disappeared

It's not without a trace

The home where he once lived

Is now our resting place

No matter how hard we try

No matter how much we cry

We can't find a way…to say

Goodbye

CHRISTINA

She had her father's eyes

She liked to be alone

She had her family's love

She had a mind of her own

And though I’ve kept my faith

She never had a prayer

She won't be coming back

But was she ever here?

No matter how hard we try

No matter how much we cry

We can't find a way…to say

Goodbye

DEBBIE

When your spirit

Has been broken

And your backs

Against the wall

Do they hear us?

Have they spoken?

Will they catch us?

When we fall

MARY/CHRISTINA

We have our husband's love

We watch as others glow

We wish the best of luck

But they will never know

MARY, CHRISTINA & DEBBIE

Because our life's on hold

The love we used to give

Is bottled up inside

While we pretend to live

MARY, CHRISTINA, DEBBIE

No matter how hard we try

No matter how much we cry

We can't find a way…to say

MARY

Goodbye

CHRISTINA

Goodbye

DEBBIE

[Spoken]

I never even had the chance to say...

DEBBIE

Goodbye

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NINETEEN

EDDIE

I never really fell in love

But I had the Beatles

I didn't get to play the field

But I could play guitar

I never got to the see the world

But I’ve met its maker

I never got to sing my song

Wish she could hear me now

I'm nineteen

I am nineteen

I was nineteen

When I died

Forever you will see me

Forever in your mind

I'll be forever

Nineteen

I know it really makes you sad

You never saw me married

You know it makes me glad

I'll never see you die

The world has a funny way

Of keeping things in balance

You'll never have control

And that's the reason why

I'm nineteen

I am nineteen

I was nineteen

When I died

Forever you will see me

Forever in your mind

I’ll be forever

Nineteen

Oh I’m going to catch your tears

And shower you with rainbows

And as each one appears

The clouds will drift away

EDDIE

[SPOKEN]

I wasn't the only person who died

that day. I know I took my mom

with me, but it was my time to

go, not her’s. She still has a lifetime ahead of her even though

mine lasted till…

Forever you will see me

Forever in your mind

I’ll be forever

Nineteen

Forever

Nineteen

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TAKE MY LIFE

ANA

Soccer trophies on my shelf

High school photos like everyone else

There's gotta be a thousand girls like me

But what I am is not what you see

I love my mom and I miss my dad

I wish my life didn't turn out so bad

Given the chance to live it over again

I'd take a pass 'cause I know how it ends

And I don't hear what you're saying

When you say it's gonna be all right

And I don't like when you're praying

Cause you're praying keeps me up at night

And I don't think I can make it

This sadness taking over me

Like a snow globe when you shake it

The snow makes it hard to see

Take my life

Cause I don't need it anymore

Take my time

But use it in a better way

Take my chance

I never had the courage to

Take it all

Take it all away from me

HEREAFTER CHOIR #3

Do you always say what's on your mind?

Take a look at what you've left behind

HEREAFTER CHOIR #1

Take a look girl

ANA

Don't have to look

It’s right in front of me

When I close my eyes

She's all that I see

I know it doesn't make any sense

HEREAFTER CHOIR #2

She’s so crazy

ANA

But the time had come

To get off the fence

I'm still hurting

And I always will

HEREAFTER CHOIR #3

You always will

ANA

It'll take some time

But I got time to kill

And I don't hear what you're saying

When you say it's gonna be all right

And I don't like when you're praying

Cause your praying keeps me up at night

And I don't think I can make it

This sadness taking over me

Like a snow globe when you shake it

The snow makes it hard to see

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Take my life

Cause I don't need it anymore

Take my time

But use it in a better way

Take my chance

I never had the courage to

Take it all

Take it all away from me

HEREAFTER CHOIR #1 & #2

La, da, da, da, da, da, da

HEREAFTER CHOIR #3

Live your life

ANA

Take it all away

HEREAFTER CHOIR #1 & #2

La, da, da, da, da, da, da

HEREAFTER CHOIR #3

Live your life

ANA

Take my life

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LARGER THAN LIFE

ANITA

When they'd see me on the big screen

People thought I had it made

They'd see my name in lights

And all those Hollywood nights

But they never saw the price I paid

I spent my life making movies

They called me the queen of the Bee's

I went on studio dates

To make my costars look straight

But none of that was really me

[Tempo picks up]

My movies didn't make much money

At least while I was alive

It took a fatal flight

On a rainy night

For me to say that I’ve finally arrived

Now they package me like Coca Cola

They play my bio on A&E

I'm on slot machines

And they sell me to teens

God the irony is killing me

That's the way it goes

For everybody here

As the legend grows

We start to disappear

It's a twist of fate

And something you can't fight

Sometimes you have to die

To be larger than

Life, life, life

Larger than

Life, life, life

Larger than

ANITA

[SPOKEN]

“Larger Than Life” ended up being

my favorite film. And they gave me

quite the send off by having me

buried at Hollywood memorial

park cemetery. Now if you don't

know…it's only the most

star-studded cemetery in the

world! People travel far and wide

just to see me [beat] dead!

ANITA & THE HEREAFTER CHOIR

Now we're all dearly departed

Legends each in our own way

Every moment is measured

Every story is treasured

They think about us every day

It's funny how death becomes you

And elevates you in their eyes

We're all frozen in time

And on everyone's mind

And all we had to do was die

ANITA

That's the way it goes

EDDIE/ANA

That's the way it goes

ANITA

For everybody here

EDDIE/ANA

For everybody here

ANITA

As the legend grows

EDDIE/ANA

As the legend grows

ANITA

We start to disappear

EDDIE/ANA

We start to disappear

ANITA, EDDIE, ANA, & THE HEREAFTER CHOIR

It's a twist of fate

And something you can't fight

Sometimes you have to die

To be larger than

Life, life, life

Larger than

Life, life, life

Larger than

[Tempo slows down]

ANITA

I'll always be Annie Myron

I'll always be the age of five

Singing in my room

And wishing on the moon

That some day I'll be larger than life

God I pray I'll be larger than life

Look at me

I'm larger than life

LOST

DEBBIE

Look at me my life is great

What you see is what you made

Everything I have

Is all because of you

We were partners in crime

What was yours was what was mine

We shared a single life

Till I was twenty two

I can never pay you back

For the patience that I lacked

Will you take the time

To meet me when I come

I keep waiting for the sign

I would give up all that's mine

When you add it up

I've lost more than I’ve won

I knew that I’d settle down

With my soul mate I’d be found

I would build a life

And you could live with me

But my timing was all wrong

Cause my journey took too long

So instead I’m living

With your memory

Like a ship that's been tossed

Like a windshield thick with frost

Your loss makes it hard

For me to find my way

I’ll go on with my life

As a mother and a wife

But as a daughter

I will never be the same

Like a prayer for your return

Every year the candle burns

When it flickers

Does it mean that you are here?

Though the distance may be wide

I have time on my side

Cause each year that passes

Only brings you near

And now dying

Is not something that I fear

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THE TOE TAG TANGO

SYPIE

I may be dead and buried

And turning shades of blue

And though I’m six feet deep

And I no longer breathe

I'm right in front of you

Cause I still have my dance card

With a few punches left

Just watch me work my hips

That I had two times fixed

I really was the best

Oh I used to be quite the dancer

When tango was all the rage

But now there's no one to dance with

I'm all alone on this stage

I wait

And wait

And wait and wait and wait

I do the toe tag tango

I click my heels on the floor

But nobody hears me

I'm so easy to ignore

That's why I’m dancing solo

Though I get in my own way

Cause it takes two to tango

Maybe today will be the day

I was always the life of the party

Now I don't stand a ghost of a chance

I watch life go on all around me

Why won't somebody ask me to dance?

ANITA, EDDIE AND ANA

You're dead

SYPIE

I'm dead I'm really, really…

ANITA, EDDIE AND ANA

Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really…

SYPIE

[SPOKEN]

All right already!!! I get it!

ANITA

Dead

SYPIE

Doing the toe tag tango

I stomp my feet on the floor

But nobody answers

I'm so easy to ignore

I tripped the light fantastic

When I was still alive

But now my trip is over

You can say that I’ve arrived

I've tangoed in Paris

I've samba'd in Brazil

I've even limbo'd

Now limbos where I live

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SOMEDAY

ANITA

Someday

Between heaven and earth

We will all meet there

Someday

Between that time and your birth

It will all be clear

It's waiting right above me

Just close your eyes

In a blink and you'll be there

It's real, not fake believe me,

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Baby

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

That's where we all will meet

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

That's where we all will meet

[Music break]

ANITA

Someday

You're gonna know what it means

To reach beyond the sky

HEREAFTER CHOIR

You’ll never be the same

ANITA

Someday

You’re gonna be set free

From all these lives that bind

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Go back from where you came

ANITA

It's gonna be so lovely

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Lovely

ANITA

Just free your heart

And your soul will take you there

Believe it and you’ll see it [baby]

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

That's where we all will meet

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

[Ooh ooh ooh]

ANITA

Someday

That's where we all will meet

It's gonna take some time

For you to learn your lessons

You're gonna be just fine

Don't know what you've been missing

And the world still goes round

While your heads in the clouds

You'll hop on you'll hop off

It never stops

Life is good

Life is great

Life is well worth the wait

You'll keep on coming back

There is no end in sight

There - is - no - end - in - sight

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Someday

ANITA

A perfect harmony

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Someday

ANITA

A place for you and me

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Someday

ANITA

A chance to live again

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Someday

ANITA

A chance to make amends

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

It's gonna take some time

ANITA

You're gonna know what I mean

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

For you to learn your lessons

ANITA

You'll have a start that's clean

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Your gonna be just fine

ANITA

You'll think its deja vu

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Don't know what you've been missing

ANITA

It's just the past saying hi to you

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Oooooooh

ANITA

Someday

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Oooooooh

ANITA, HEREAFTER CHOIR

Someday-yyyyyyyyy

That’s where-we’re-gonna-meet

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HOW WILL SHE REMEMBER ME?

SYPIE

How will she see me?

When I can't see myself

Was I the best I could be?

Or was I someone else

EDDIE

With a single word

I could ease her mind

She is getting old

And I’m just wasting time

ANA

I wonder what she is thinking

What memory does she hold dear?

A lifetime in just one sentence

SYPIE, EDDIE, ANA

We have to make a choice

Should we reveal ourselves?

And will it mean the difference

Between heaven and hell

How will she remember me?

SYPIE

Did I leave my mark?

ANA

Did my memories fade?

EDDIE

If she saw me now

SYPIE

I wonder what she'd say

DEBBIE

God I really miss her smile

MARY

I would travel far and wide

Just to hear his voice

CHRISTINA

Just to feel her touch

SYPIE

Will they have regrets?

I wonder just how much

SYPIE, EDDIE, ANA

She will remember me

CHRISTINA

When I close my eyes

I pretend to sleep

If I stay up all night

Maybe my soul will keep

DEBBIE

Cause when the day is done

It's just a memory

When my race is run

Who'll be in front of me?

MARY

Now the days are shrinking

Blink and they disappear

What will be my last impression?

DEBBIE

Is it the way I looked?

On my wedding day

MARY

Is it those old expressions?

That I used to say?

CHRISTINA

Is it that inside joke

That we used to share?

SYPIE, EDDIE, ANA

What will be left of me?

When I’m no longer here

SYPIE, EDDIE, ANA

How will she remember me?

MARY, DEBBIE, CHRISTINA

How will we remember?

SYPIE, EDDIE, ANA

How will she remember me?

MARY, DEBBIE, CHRISTINA

How will we remember?

SYPIE

Did I leave my mark?

ANA

Did my memories fade?

EDDIE

If she saw me now

SYPIE

I wonder what she'd say

DEBBIE

God I really miss her smile

SYPIE

How will she remember?

MARY

I would travel far and wide

EDDIE

How will she remember?

MARY

Just to hear his voice

CHRISTINA

Just to feel her touch

SYPIE

Will they have regrets?

I wonder just how much

ANA

She will remember me

EDDIE

When she remembers me

SYPIE

If she remembers me

DEBBIE

Me

ANA/CHRISTINA

Me

EDDIE/MARY

Me

EVERYONE

Me

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SPACE AND TIME

JASON

Anita and I

Shared a space and time

That'll never happen again

I go back

To when the world was mine

And start remembering when

We used to laugh

We used to sing

We couldn't wait

For what tomorrow would bring

JASON

Since she's been gone

Time marches on

To its eventual end

And I will never see her again

ANITA

Jason and I

Shared the love of all time

It’s sad to see him this way

Oh I wish that I

Could throw him a line

There's so much I want to say

You have my heart

You have my soul

Though we're apart

You're never alone

Time can't erase

And never replace

What happened way back when

And I can't wait to see you again

JASON

I gotta know

If I should just break through

And see what's on the other side

Or sit tight

And do what I always do

And watch life pass me by

ANITA

When two souls untwine

They can never be lost

We'll find each other again

And again, and again, and again

I might be standing

Right before your eyes

I might show up in the end

Oh I’ll wait for you

You'll wait for me

It's just a matter of time

We’ll have our date

JASON

I'm losing faith

ANITA

And I can't wait

To see you again

JASON

I'll never see her again

ANITA/JASON

And I can't wait

To see you again

WAITING

CHRISTINA

Birthdays

DEBBIE

Waiting, I’m waiting

MARY

Holidays

CHRISTINA

Waiting, I’m waiting

JASON

Wedding days

EDDIE

I was nineteen

MARY

Waiting, I’m waiting

ANA

I was twenty-three

CHRISTINA

Waiting, I’m waiting

ANITA

I was thirty-nine

JASON

I'm waiting

EDDIE, ANA, SYPIE, ANITA

When we died

Waiting I am waiting

For the moment

To break free

But am I going?

Or am I coming?

I keep on running

But never leave

I can make the wind

Blow through her hair

I can make the frost

Just disappear

I can make time stop

If only for me

But I can never

Take away her pain

I can only

Seem to make it rain

Because the easiest thing I do

Is make her cry out of the blue

MARY, CHRISTINA, DEBBIE, JASON

I am waiting

For an answer

To a question

That I forgot

What did I think?

Would really happen

Who am I kidding?

I've lost the plot

I want all the

Christmas' I’ve missed

Granted all the wishes

I have wished

I would like the world to stop

So I can get back on

I just want to

Let go of this pain

Long enough to

See her once again

Because the hardest thing I do

Is spend each day without you

EVERYONE

I want laughter

I want good times

I want lang syne

I want me

Til then I'm waiting

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Waiting

EVERYONE

I'll keep on waiting

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Waiting

EVERYONE

So tired of waiting

It's what I do

EDDIE

Nineteen

MARY

Nineteen

ANA

Twenty-three

CHRISTINA

Twenty-three

ANITA/JASON

Thirty-nine

EVERYONE

When we died

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THAT'S MY LIFE

SYPIE

From the moment that I died

When my spirit first awoke

I heard a thousand voices

But no one ever spoke

I saw faces I remembered

From a time so far away

As I relived my whole life

In a single day

I was one of seven children

My life started in New York

From an old world Jewish family

If these walls could only talk

Me and my best friend Shooky

We were gonna do it all

But we had to get through Brooklyn

Before we'd get to see the world

That's my life

Don't need my eyes to see

You can take my breath away

But not my memory

Though my body is tired

My soul will never sleep

How can my life be over?

When it's right in front of me

SYPIE

Ok, so Shooky and I didn't exactly get to see the world…at least together. I met mfuture husband Albert when he was stationed in Brooklyn. We made a nice life for ourselves down south. We had two beautiful children before things began to unravel in our marriage. We had just decided to go our separate ways, when I found out I was pregnant withDebbie . It was going to be just me and the kids from this point on…and you know what? I was up for the challenge!

The first time that I held you

I knew it was gonna be fun

Your sister and your brother

Made me a better mom

The four of us together

Talking through the night

That summer we spent in Europe

It was the best year of my life

Your brother was the joker

Your sister missed her dad

And you just kept on smiling

Cause you knew what we had

We were all so busy living

That we didn't see the time

Passing right before us

And leaving me behind

SYPIE

I'll admit that I did suffer from a bad case of the empty nest syndrome. Ours was an open house, there was always someone coming and going until they all hit a certain age. At that point they were just going.

Then one by one you left home

The way it's supposed to be

But I’d spent more time with you babe

And I hoped you'd never leave

I know how hard I made it

For you to break away

Now I’m the one that's leaving

So we'll both just have to wait

Cause that's my life

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Sha la la sha la la

SYPIE

Don't need my eyes to see

HEREAFTER CHOIR

Sha la la sha la la

SYPIE

You can take my breath away

But not my memory

Though my body is tired

My soul will never sleep

HEREAFTER CHOIR #1

Sleep

HEREAFTER CHOIR #2

Sleep

HEREAFTER CHOIR #3

Sleep

SYPIE

How can my life be over?

When it's right in front of me

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REST IN PEACE

ANITA

Time to say goodbye

Time to walk away

Everyone is leaving

There's nothing left to say

JASON

Now you have the message

I've shared with each of you

I hope you'll find some closure

I'm looking for some too

DEBBIE, MARY, CHRISTINA

Our worlds are still divided

But I know the time will come

When we can be together

And finish what's begun

SYPIE, ANITA, EDDIE, ANA, JASON

Rest in peace

Your mortal soul

Will rest in peace

When you awake

I will be there

Because goodbye

Just means good night

So rest in peace

DEBBIE

Some say the road is harder

For the one that's left behind

JASON

Cause the soul knows where it's going

And the heart is often blind

SYPIE

But if you can find the faith

It's doesn't matter which road you choose

ANITA

That faith will never fail you

That faith will see you through

MARY

I could not imagine

My life without you

CHRISTINA

You must be all around me

For me to make it through

DEBBIE

Sometimes when I’m sleeping

I'll go to a place

I know it must be heaven

When I see your face

MARY, CHRISTINA, DEBBIE

So we'll keep the candle burning

We'll keep the memory true

And when the wind makes it flicker

We'll know the wind is you

MARY, CHRISTINA, DEBBIE, JASON

Rest in peace