The Notebook The Musical Album Lyrics

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Time

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. Dorian Harewood, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[OLDER NOAH:]
Time to get up
Time to get up now
And let the bones
Crack into place
I look in the mirror
I see an old man
But in my eyes
A young man's face

Time, time, time, time
It never was mine, mine, mine, mine
But you know what is
Love, hope, breath, and dreams
As cliché as that seems

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Look at this dress
It was my favorite
Because my mother hated it so much
So I'll give it to my daughter
And she'll give it to her daughter
It's a piece of me that they can touch
When I'm gone

[ALL:]
Time, time, time, time
It never was mine, mine, mine, mine

[LOW VOICES:]
But you know what is

[HIGH VOICES:]
Sky

[LOW VOICES:]
Sky

[HIGH VOICES:]
Light

[LOW VOICES:]
Light

[HIGH VOICES:]
Red

[LOW VOICES:]
Red

[ALL:]
Morning light
And that is why we fight
To keep going
Keep running
Keep standing
Keep leaning
Keep learning
Keep hoping

[OLDER NOAH:]
I wanna run
Like my legs used to run

[All NOAHs:]
Breathing in, breathing out
My arms stretched out
And I wanna know that my old heart can grow
Like spring again

[ALL:]
A new beginning

[OLDER NOAH:]
But here I am
The same inside
The paint is chipping
But the foundation's alright

[YOUNGER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
I wanna run
Like my legs used to run
I wanna run to you

[ENSEMBLE:]
Time, time, time, time

[YOUNGER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
I wanna run
Like my legs used to run

[ENSEMBLE:]
Time, time, time, time

[YOUNGER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
I wanna run to you

[SOME VOICES:]
Time, time, time, time

[OTHER VOICES:]
Keep going
Keep running

[SOME VOICES:]
Time, time, time, time

[OTHER VOICES:]
Keep standing

[YOUNGER ALLIE and MIDDLE ALLIE:]
It never was mine

[SOME VOICES:]
Time, time, time, time

[OTHER VOICES:]
Keep leaning
Keep learning

[SOME VOICES:]
Time, time, time, time

[YOUNGER ALLIE and MIDDLE ALLIE:]
It never was mine

[OTHER VOICES:]
Keep hoping

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Time, time, time, time

[OTHER VOICES:]
Time to get up
Time to wake up now

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Dance With Me

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. John Cardoza, Carson Stewart, Dorcas Leung, Jordan Tyson & Hillary Fisher)

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
Dance with me

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
In the rain or in the sunshine

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
Dance with me

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'll be yours if you'll be all mine

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
You may not believe it but I know it to be true

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
That I'm happy ever after

[FIN, GEORGIE:]
Happy ever after

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
When I get to dance

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
With you

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Hey, Fin, who was that girl in the blue dress

[FIN:]
Allison Nelson, good luck. Girls like that dry their hands with dollar bills

[GEORGIE:]
Dance with me
Put your arms around me, honey

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
Dance with me

[FIN:]
I don't care if we look funny

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
Perfect imperfection
That's the way we make it through

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'm happy ever after

[FIN, GEORGIE:]
Happy ever after

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE:]
When I get to dance with you

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Who was that boy with the tiny guitar?

[SARAH:]
Noah Calhoun, he works in the lumber yard. No

[YOUNGER NOAH, FIN, GEORGIE, ALLIE:]
When the world's not looking
Can I steal a kiss or two

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Make me happy ever after
Just ask me to dance with you

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Carry You Home

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat John Cardoza & Jordan Tyson)


[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I've got a secret to tell
I'm falling in love with you

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Shh, you don't even know me!

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I think that I know you well

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I bet you do

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
And you're falling for me too

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Oh, okay!

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
And I know
Nothing else matters
'Cause one day, I'll carry you home

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I can walk, but thanks

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
The whole world
Might think we're crazy
But one day, I'll carry you to our home
Yeah, one day, you'll be my home

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
So, you know the future?

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I know ours, yeah

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I'm not this kind of a girl

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
And what kind of girl is that?

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
The kind of girl who dances with strange boys

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I am not strange, I am Noah!

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
But there's something about your hands
And the music in your voice
I know
Nothing else matters
'Cause one day, you'll carry me home

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
One day, I'll carry you home

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
The whole world
Might think I'm crazy
But one day, you'll carry me to our home
And one day, I know you'll be my home

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'll carry you to our home

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
And one day, you'll build up

[BOTH:]
A great big home
Yeah, one day, you'll be my home

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Blue Shutters

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. John Cardoza & Jordan Tyson)

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Do you want to live there with me?

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Do I wanna live with you in a scary, haunted house?

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'll paint the shutters blue
I'll wrap a porch around the whole entire house
So we can watch the sunset
And the sunrise too
Who needs sleep
When it's me, that house, and you

Breakfast in bed at noon
We'll plant a garden in the backyard by the river
Living off the things we grow
And growing as we live
Can you see?
It's just me
That house
And you

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
So it's our house

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
That's our house

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I Paint

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. John Cardoza & Jordan Tyson)

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Did you paint this?

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Yes
I like to pretend that the world isn't what it is
'Cause what it is is mean and cruel, and bigger
Than anything I could ever imagine

So yes
I make up these worlds in my head
Put them down on paper with these hands of mine
I find that time slows down when I do

And when I close my eyes
I see the truth come spilling over me
And when I hold my hands over my ears
I hear sweet melodies
I feel like I am safe
When I run away from the real world

So yes
I paint

Well...
Aren't you gonna say anything?

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Sadness and Joy

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. Jordan Tyson & John Cardoza)

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I've never seen
Anything so beautiful and so serene
Yet filled with so much darkness
That I understand

There are too sides of the same coin
It's sadness and it's joy

Right?

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I never knew
That I would find someone who sees the things I do
As really beautiful and meaningful and brand new
But you understand it's not a choice
It's sadness and it's joy
It's sadness and it's joy
It's sadness and it's joy

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
How do you do all of this with these hands
With these hands
I'll never truly begin to understand
But I do know that it's
Sadness and it's joy
It's light and then it's dark, it's
Christmas morning down the stairs
It's waiting for a spark
It's low and then it's high
It's good inside the bad

[BOTH:]
It's loving when it's hard to love
And laughing when it's sad
It's fighting then making up
And fighting all again

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
And making love and babies

[BOTH:]
Raising hell and then heaven
It's sadness and it's joy
Sadness and it's joy

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Sadness

[BOTH:]
Sadness and it's joy

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Leave The Light On

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat. Ryan Vasquez & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I'll leave the light on, turn down the bed
Heat up the kettle, butter some bread
Stay up 'til midnight haunting these halls
Let's hang our memories all over these walls

Where have you gone?
Just out for a walk?
And when you get back, we'll have us a talk
About life, about war, about dinner, and more
'Bout the sun and the moon
And where have you gone?

Another sunset, it happens to fall
Right into a new day, crushing us all
And night after new night, like the nights come and gone
Living is waiting, living and wanting, living alone...

And where have you gone?
Just out for a walk?
And when you get back, we'll have us a talk
About life, about war, about dinner, and more
'Bout the sun and the moon
And we'll go up to bed, watch the world from our heads
Are you coming back?
Are you coming back soon?

[MIDDLE NOAH (ENSEMBLE):]
We build these walls (we build these walls)
To live inside (to live inside)
And make a home (and make a home)
And shut our eyes and dream (and shut our eyes and dream)
And when I see you, you're everywhere:
Planting a garden, biting your lip
Watching the snowstorm keeping me warm
I almost feel you — you're kissing my neck
Blinking and breathing, laughing and leaving
And the hole in my chest isn't there anymore...

Where have you gone?
Oh, where have you gone?
I build these walls to bring you home
But all they bring me is more alone
Maybe I'll move on, maybe I won't
But I'll leave the light on anyway
I'll leave the light on...

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What Happens

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Joy Woods)

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
What happens to a person who forgets how to breathe?
Who forgets who she is? Who forgets where she is?
Where am I?
The bathroom, oh my God
What happens to a person who cannot believe what she sees?
I cannot believe what I see
What I see can't be

But there it is in black and white
You've made that house a home
And I know that I should let it go and walk away
But I need to know

Is someone living with you?
Is someone washing the dishes and laughing?
And is someone holding you in the night
In their arms
In a room
In the house?

What happens to a person who's gonna be married in a week
To a man that she loves?
Married in a week
What happens to a person like that?
To a person like that?
To a person like me?

But there it is in black and white
You've made that place your own

Is someone living with you?
Is someone hearing you hum while you're cooking?
And is someone holding you in the night
In their arms
In a room

In the house that I see in my head?
When I'm wide awake in my bed
This is insane
This isn't who I should be
Who should I be?

Is someone living with you?
Is someone sleeping and waking beside you?
And is someone loving you?
And are you loving them too?
And are you loving them, loving them
Loving them too
In the night
In a room
In the house
In our home?

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I Wanna Go Back

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Joy Woods & Jordan Tyson)

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I wanna go back, I wanna go back to the good old days
Counting up kids
Counting the lines written on our faces

[+ YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I wanna tell you your eyes are as clear as the day we met

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
These things we forget
That I

[+ YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I am still in here

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I'm waiting for you

[+ YOUNGER ALLIE:]
To come let me out dear

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Is it time for dinner?
Is it time for forever?
I didn't know that the last time I'd leave the house
Was the last time I'd leave the house

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I wanna turn left and get off this road heading nowhere fast
Why is this happening, am I being punished
For something inside of my past

[+ MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Life has a funny way of speeding up the older that you get
I'm in love with all the things that I forget

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I am still in here

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I am still in here

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I'm waiting for

[+ MIDDLE ALLIE:]
You
To come let me out dear
Is it time for dinner?
Is it time for forever?

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I didn't know that the last time I'd leave the house
Was the last time I'd leave the house

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Take me back one day, take me back

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I promise I'll be good, one day

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Take me back one day

[BOTH:]
And I
I am still in here
I'm waiting for you
To come let me out, dear
And it's time for dinner
It's time for forever

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I didn't know that the last time I'd leave my house

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I didn't know

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Was the last time I'd see my house

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If This Is Love

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Jordan Tyson)

I've waited every day to feel the way I feel
Knots in my stomach, the kind that never heal
Butterflies that fly in me and never seem to go away
Sick to my stomach when I think about his face
But in a good way, in a way I can't replace
Nothing can stop this, it's almost like a hurricane

If this is love, I'm not ready
If this is love, why am I so unsteady?
If this is love, why did no one tell me
The pain that I would feel?
If this is love, maybe I'm ready
How do I know, I'm in my head again
If this is love, I think I'm in it
If this is, if this is, if this is love

The world around me says no but I say yes
I want to scream it out instead it's stuck inside my chest
It's like a bird in a rage, in a cage
And nobody wants to free me

If this is love, I'm not ready
If this is love, why am I so unsteady?
If this is love, why did no one tell me
The pain that I would feel?
If this is love, maybe I'm ready
How do I know, I'm in my head again
If this is love, I think I'm in it
If this is, if this is, if this is love

I think I'm in it
And in between it
And upside down
And inside out
I think I'm in it
And in between it
And upside down

If this is, if this is,
If this is, if this is,
If this is, if this is,
If this is love

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Kiss Me

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Oh my God
He's just standing there and
Oh my God
He's got chest hair
And he's standing half-naked
In front of me
Look at me
I'm mortified
What would my mother think
If she could see me now
But I can't seem to move away
Then I see his eyes looking at me
Not my breasts or my thighs
No I see his eyes, looking at me
It's my eyes he's looking at my eyes
And I want him to kiss me on the neck
Kiss me on the forehead
Kiss me on the mouth, the mouth, the mouth

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Holy shit
I'm sorry, but
Holy shit
I'm so sorry but
I've never seen anything so beautiful
Oh my God
I'm petrified
What if she thinks
That I'm too skinny
Or my chest hair isn't hairy enough
And then I see her eyes looking at me
Not my legs, not my stomach
No, I see her eyes looking at me
It's my eyes, she's looking at my eyes
And I want her to kiss me on the neck
Kiss me on the forehead
Kiss me on the mouth, the mouth, the mouth

[BOTH:]
Here I am

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Loving her

[BOTH:]
And I don't care about the rest of the world
Here I am

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Loving him

[BOTH:]
And I don't care about anything else

[YOUNGER NOAH, MIDDLE NOAH, YOUNGER ALLIE, MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Kiss me on the neck
Kiss me on the forehead
Kiss me on the mouth, the mouth, the mouth
Kiss me on the neck
Kiss me on the forehead
Kiss me on the mouth, the mouth, the mouth
The mouth, the mouth, the mouth, the mouth, the mouth

[MIDDLE NOAH and MIDDLE ALLIE:]
The mouth, the mouth, the mouth, the mouth, the mouth

[ALL:]
Kiss me all over now

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Home

(Ingrid Michaelson)

[FIN, spoken]
Noah? You in there?
Allie's parents called the police
They got every car on the street out looking for you
They're calling you a kidnapper

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
What?

[FIN, spoken]
You gotta get out of here, man

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Just give me a minute

[FIN, spoken]
Noah, come on

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
I need a minute, go keep a look out for me, okay?

[FIN, spoken]
I can't go to jail, Noah
They don't let you in the army if you go to jail

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Nobody is going to jail

[FIN, spoken]
You are, if they find you here with her

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Go

[ENSEMBLE]
I love you

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Marry me

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
What? Noah, I can't

[ENSEMBLE]
I love you more than I ever thought I could

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Why not?

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
We're too young

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
I don't feel young, I feel a hundred years old
Marry me


[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
I can't

[ENSEMBLE]
I love you more than I ever thought I should

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
Will you write to me?

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
I don't have your address

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
Do you have a pen?

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
Why would I have a pen?

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
5394 Smith Ferry Road

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
5394-

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
Smith Ferry, Ferry, like the boat


[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
5394 Smith Ferry, 5394 Smith Ferry

[FIN, spoken]
Noah, you gotta get out of here now

[YOUNGER NOAH, spoken]
I am gonna write to you every day, okay? 5394

[BOTH, spoken]
Smith Ferry Road

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
Oh, wait

[FIN, spoken]
Just let him go

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
But I love him

[FIN, spoken]
Then why did you hide him from your folks for so long?
Listen, he would never say this to you, Allie
It's been killing him, all this sneaking around

[YOUNGER ALLIE, spoken]
W- I- I didn't know

[FIN, spoken]
This was never gonna last forever

[FIRST GROUP, (SECOND GROUP)]
When the dark hits the sky
When the shadows divide
I won't stop 'till I find you
I'll find you tonight
(I love you)
This is my life
My legacy, I will remember

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
Not yet

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
Who are you?

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
Please, not yet

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
I don't know you

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
It's me, Noah, your husband

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
You're not my husband
Where's my husband?

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
It's me

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
No, get away from me

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
I- I- I'm not a stranger

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
I don't- You're scaring me

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
There's nothing to be scared of, please

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
Help, help

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
Please, sweetheart, it's me

[ENSEMBLE, continuing]
Remember me

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
I don't want to be here

[OLDER NOAH, spoken]
I've been trying to tell you, I'm your husband

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
No, get away from me

[NURSE LORI, spoken]
We're gonna calm down now
You're alright

[JOHNNY, spoken]
You need to leave, Mr. Calhoun

[OLDER ALLIE, spoken]
Get this old man away from me

[DOCTOR, spoken]
Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Calhoun
Call 911

[ENSEMBLE]
I wanna go home

[MIDDLE ALLIE]
I hurt, I leave
I live, I breathe
I wanna go home

[MIDDLE NOAH, spoken]
Allie

[MIDDLE ALLIE, spoken]
Hi

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We Have To Try

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza, Joy Woods & Ryan Vasquez)

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
All these things we took for granted

[ENSEMBLE:]
Breathe in and out

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Back when we were so enchanted

[ENSEMBLE:]
Breathe in and out

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
I believe in magic but it's hard to find these days

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
Everyone sees tragedies, but I believe that happy times
Are always waiting right across the road

[BOTH:]
That's how it goes

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
When you're young

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
How'd I get from you to me
I gave up my destiny

[ENSEMBLE:]
Breathe in and out

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Where did all the days go
When I used to burn so bright

[ALL FOUR:]
Isn't it a tragedy
The way we run, the way we fight
Forgetting that we have to say goodbye
We have to try
We have to try

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
We have to try

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Forever

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I have some pie, you want some pie?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Sure

God he looks good
In that shirt, in those pants

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
It's apple

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Works for me!

In that shirt, in those pants
I wanna rip 'em off
With my teeth

God, he smells good
Just like wood in the rain
And I'm feeling that pain
I'm feeling that old pain only he can give
He can give right here

I'm never going back, I'm staying right here forever
I finally made it home I'm living and dying right here
Maybe on this table
Which I bet he built himself

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Hey, where'd you get this table?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Uh, I built it

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Mmm...
Ooh...

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I can't believe she's sitting there
Just sitting at the table that I built for her
She looks so pretty
I like the little lines around her eyes
I wish I knew what put them there
She looks so pretty

I'm never letting go, I'm holding her here
Forever

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I'm never going back, I'm staying right here

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I've finally got her home, I'm keeping her here

[BOTH:]
Forever if I'm able

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Uh, hey, you still hungry?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Well, I'm always hungry

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Well how 'bout dinner?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Sure

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Ah come on, I know a place

And so it begins
I remember her skin and the curve of her back
The look in her eyes that only I can bring
I can bring her here

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
His body, his hands
They're the same but not quite the same
And his mouth makes me ache
I can't see straight
Oh, I just don't care
Just breathe the air with him

[ENSEMBLE:]
Ah...
Ah...

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Is this our dock?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Yup, still standing

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Oh, okay, I see. Dinner?

[YOUNG NOAH:]
Don't ever leave again

[YOUNG ALLIE:]
Why didn't you write me?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Oh, uh, here
Here
Take this

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Thanks

[YOUNG NOAH and LOW VOICES:]
Don't ever leave again

[YOUNG ALLIE and HIGH VOICES:]
Why didn't you write me?

[YOUNG NOAH, YOUNG ALLIE and ENSEMBLE:]
Don't ever leave me again

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Uhh, maybe we should head back?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Wait! I used to love to play in the rain

[ENSEMBLE:]
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah...

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
No. Why didn't you write to me?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Wh- what are you talking about?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
You said you would write to me and you didn't!

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I wrote you a letter every day for a year

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
You did?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Of course I wrote you

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I didn't get any letters

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
But I sent them!
I swear to you, I did

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I thought you'd forgotten me

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Allie, I could never forget you

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Okay, now we should go

[YOUNG NOAH:]
Don't ever leave

[YOUNG ALLIE:]
I'm never going back

[YOUNG NOAH:]
Don't ever leave

[YOUNG ALLIE]
I'm never going back

[YOUNG NOAH, YOUNG ALLIE and ENSEMBLE:]
Don't leave me now
Don't leave me then
Don't ever leave me again

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Iron In The Fridge

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Dorian Harewood, Ryan Vasquez & John Cardoza)


[OLDER NOAH:]
She left the iron in the fridge
It was the second time that week
I knew that she was getting worse
And the doctors agreed
But there's so much that we haven't done
It's like we've only just begun
Time moves so fast when you're with the one
Human who understands you

[OLDER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
Sometimes we like to walk by people's houses
And look into their windows just to see
The things we never had

I still remember the first time we kissed

[OLDER NOAH:]
I remember that curfew that you never missed

[OLDER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
I've even fallen in love with the way that you write

[OLDER NOAH:]
The grocery list

[OLDER NOAH, MIDDLE NOAH, and YOUNGER NOAH:]
Sometimes we like to walk by people's houses
And look into their windows just to see
The things we never had

But we didn't want them anyway
No we didn't want them anyway
No we didn't want them anyway
No we didn't want them anyway

[OLDER NOAH:]
Allie, my Allie

Sometimes we should walk by people's houses
And look into their windows
Glowing golden rectangles
Just filled with families and memories and us
The way we used to be
The things we'll never have

---

Don't You Worry

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Andréa Burns)

[MOTHER:]
Don't you worry
Everything will be alright
I have got you

Don't you worry
Everything will be so bright
Let's write your story

Beautiful things are right around the corner
For you
So don't you worry
Everything's alright

Just close your eyes and breathe in with me
And when the sun pulls back up in the sky
Then you'll see
I'll always be here to guide you home
Even when you think that you're alone

So don't you worry
Everything will be alright
I have got you

Don't you worry
You'll be alright

---

It's Not Easy

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Ryan Vasquez & Joy Woods)

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
If this isn't real, if this isn't real
Then what is?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I... don't know!

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
If this isn't love, if this isn't life
Then what do you want?
Not what your mother, not what your lover
Not what the others want
What do you want?

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I don't know
It's not easy for me!

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
It's not easy for me
No one said it'd be easy
But I want every second of the bad and the good
I want all of our days to be side by side
And slide into yesterdays
Ride into memories
Making a messy, beautiful life
I just want all of you, all of us
Inside
This house
I built
Until we're gone

All you gotta do is just walk back up these stairs
Goodbye, Allie

---

My Days

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Joy Woods)

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Where am I?
Where am I going?
Is it somewhere that I want to go?
And when I get there
Is that where happy is?
Or is it somewhere I already know?

Sometimes I feel
Like I cry without a noise
Sometimes I feel
Like somebody chose my choice

I have to run away
I have to sit and stay
I wanna live a life
Where I'm allowed to say
That I'm proud of the way that I spent
My days

I can feel
Something growing
It is small but it's shifting the ground
When I was younger, I could hear it
But it's back
It's my sound

Sometimes I feel
Like I lost my only voice
But then I realized
Only I can choose my choice

I have to run away
I have to sit and stay
I wanna live a life
Where I'm allowed to say
That I'm proud of the way that I spent
My days

These days
All we ever really get are
Days to dream
And days to lose
I just need to choose my time

I have to run away
I have to stay
I'm gonna live a life
Where I am proud to say
That I followed my joy
I followed my heart
I lived this one wild life, I ripped it apart
I pushed through the corners with no apologies

And finally I can say
I know the way
I'll say that I love the way that I spent
My days

---

I Love You More

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Ryan Vasquez, Joy Woods, John Cardoza, Jordan Tyson, Maryann Plunkett & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I, I'm not the one to run away
In fact, I'm always here to stay

[ENSEMBLE:]
When the dark hits the sky
And the shadows survive
I won't stop 'til I find you tonight

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I'm not the one to run away...

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'm not the one to run away...

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
And love?
Whatever happened to love?

[+ YOUNGER NOAH:]
It's all I have to believe in

[ENSEMBLE (repeating):]
I love you...
I love you more than I ever thought I could...

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I am made for so much more...

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
To live the kind of life you fight for...

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
Gonna make angels in the snow...

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
I'm gonna plant things and watch them grow...

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Only the things they want me to be...

[+ YOUNGER ALLIE:]
The way the world keeps shaping me
I've got my own shapes [?]

[+ YOUNGER NOAH and MIDDLE NOAH:]
I love you...
I close my eyes and see them every time

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Can I carry you home this time?
Can I carry you home?
It's my turn now...

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
I'll carry you home this time

[+ MIDDLE ALLIE:]
I will carry you home...

[ENSEMBLE (repeating):]
I love you...
I love you more than I ever thought I could...

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Time, time, time, time...
It never was mine, mine, mine, mine...

[YOUNGER NOAH:]
It's sadness and it's joy...

[YOUNGER ALLIE:]
And when I close my eyes, I see the truth...

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
And the hole in my chest isn't there...

[ENSEMBLE:]
I love you...

[OLDER ALLIE:]
I love you more than I ever thought I could

---

I Know

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Maryann Plunkett, Dorian Harewood & Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[OLDER ALLIE:]
I know
Your hands
I've seen them
Wrapped around a baby girl
I have a girl
I have a boy
He has your hands
'Scuse me if I pull away
I just don't quite know what to say
It's like I'm in a memory
Of a memory of a memory
But I know, I know
Your hands

Where do I go?
When I go?
When I disappear?
Where do I go?
Where do I go?
Help me
Help me while I'm here
I know

[OLDER NOAH:]
I know

[OLDER ALLIE:]
Your eyes

[OLDER NOAH:]
Eyes

[OLDER ALLIE:]
I've seen through them a thousand times
Is that right?

[OLDER NOAH:]
Yes, that's right

[OLDER ALLIE:]
It's like I'm in a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream

[OLDER ALLIE & OLDER NOAH:]
Where do we go?
When we go?
When we disappear?
Where do we go?
Where do we go?

[OLDER ALLIE:]
Help me, Noah
Help me while I'm here

---

Coda

(Ingrid Michaelson)

(feat Original Broadway Cast of The Notebook)

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Where do we go
When we go?

[OLDER NOAH:]
Will you remember me?

[OLDER ALLIE:]
Pretend I'm out at sea?

[MIDDLE NOAH:]
Or will you trace our skies

[MIDDLE ALLIE:]
Watching birds fly by?

[ALL and ENSEMBLE:]
We leave the light on, even though I'm gone
Will you remember inside the sadness there is joy?

When the sun comes out
And the rain falls down
And another season falls like snow without a sound
Around and around

Just remember
I will always be in
Your boat
Tell our stories
The sad parts too
It's better when it's true

Where do we go when we go?
Will you remember me?
Pretend I'm out at sea?
Or will you trace the skies
Watching birds fly by?

You will always be my home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home

[YOUNGER NOAH & MIDDLE NOAH:]
And I will carry you

[ALL:]
I wanna go home
I will carry you home