Live By the Hook (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Feels like there's nothing left

Am I on my own

And the road ahead I can't walk alone

They're all leaving me

Don't believe in me

I was foolish, reckless and blind

I should turn back while there's still time

You coward!

Oh boo hoo!

No one wants to play with me and my wife has left me

Oh woe is me

Woe is me

Who are you?

I am your darker side, the one you keep in shadows too far to hide

Deep in your heart, you can't deny

All of your fears keeping me alive

Waiting here for you to arrive

Don't choose to live by the book

Let's live by the hook!

Captain James Hook, at your service

Playwright James Barrie

I know

But I don't understand where you came from?

Came from you, James, a part of you

A part of you you don't like to talk about

A deep part with little cakes and cucumber sandwiches

Who me?

Yes, and ever so slightly, more handsome

You need me

Your play needs me

Children like to be scared

They just don't know it yet

Unleash me!

I don't know how!

You have to use your pen for something other than satisfying them

Let us embark on this journey

Be sure to write a part for me

I'll be the wind behind your sails

I will fight tooth and nail

On Guard!

You have to look in your heart, in your soul

You must find a hook, in your heart, in your soul

And search every nook in your heart, in your soul

Don't live by the book, in your heart, in your soul

We live by the hook!