Finale: Children Will Listen (from "Into the Woods")

The slotted spoon CAN catch the potato...

Every knot was once straight rope.

The harder to wake, the better to have...

The greater the good, the harder the blow...

When going to hide, know how to get there

And how to get back...

And eat first...

The knife that is sharp today may be dull by tomorrow...

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...

Maybe I just wasn't meant to have children--

Don't say that! Of course you were meant to have children...

But how can I go about being a father

With no one to mother my child?

Just calm the child

Yes, calm the child

Look, tell him the story of how it all happened

Be father and mother, you'll know what to do

Alone...

Sometimes people leave you

Halfway through the wood

Do not let it grieve you

No one leaves for good

You are not alone

No one is alone

Hold him to the light now

Let him see the glow

Things will be all right now

Tell him what you know...

Shhh. Once upon a time... in a far-off kingdom...

lived a young maiden... a sad young lad.

.and a childless baker... with his wife

Careful the things you say

Children will listen

Careful the things you do

Children will see

And learn

Children may not obey

But children will listen

Children will look to you

For which way to turn

To learn what to be

Careful before you say

"Listen to me."

Children will listen

Careful the wish you make

Wishes are children

Careful the path they take

Wishes come true

Not free

Careful the spell you cast

Not just on children

Sometimes the spell may last

Past what you can see

And turn against you...

Careful the tale you tell

That is the spell

Children will listen...

Though it's fearful

Though it's deep, though it's dark

And though you may lose the path

Though you may encounter wolves

You can't just act

You have to listen

You can't just act

You have to think

Though it's dark

There are always wolves

There are always spells

There are always beans

Or a giant dwells there

So into the woods you go again

You have to every now and then

Into the woods, no telling when

Be ready for the journey

Into the woods, but not too fast

Or what you wish, you lose at last

Into the woods, but mind the past

Into the woods, but mind the future

Into the woods, but not to stray

Or tempt the wolf, or steal from the giant--

The way is dark

The light is dim

But now there's you, me, her, and him

The chances look small

The choices look grim

But everything you learn there

Will help when you return there

The light is getting dimmer-

I think I see a glimmer--

Into the woods--you have to grope

But that's the way you learn to cope

Into the woods to find there's hope

Of getting through the journey

Into the woods, each time you go

There's more to learn of what you know

Into the woods, but not too slow--

Into the woods, it's nearing midnight--

Into the woods to mind the wolf

To heed the witch, to honor the giant

To mind

To heed

To find

To think

To teach

To join

To go to the Festival!

Into the woods

Into the woods

Into the woods

Then out of the woods--

And happy ever after!

I wish...