Finale: Children Will Listen [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

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

Shh, once upon a time, in a far-off kingdom, there 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