Post End-of-Year Quiz: Deathless Lyrics
Created | Updated Dec 30, 2018
Post End-of-Year Quiz: Deathless Lyrics
The musical stage often attempts to be 'inspirational'. We pick up these songs and use them on suitable occasions, sometimes without thinking about their origins. What were the contexts of these inspirational popular songs? Match the lyric to the character who sang it in the original musical.
| 1. Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short When you reach September... | A Pointillist painter |
| 2. Every street lamp seems to beat A fatalistic warning Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters And soon it will be morning.... | A nun |
| 3. Mapping out a sky. What it feels like, planning a sky.... | A victim of class inequity, to God |
| 4. I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It's not on any chart.... | A relative, to a victim of spousal abuse |
| 5. A dream that will need All the love you can give Every day of your life For as long as you live.... | A cat |
| 6. At the end of a storm There's a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark.... | A postage-stamp prince |
| 7. With no star to guide me And no one beside me I'll go on my way And after the day That darkness will hide me.... | An escaped mental patient |
| 8. There is no death though eyes grow dim, There is no fear when I'm near to him.... | A US Marine officer |
| 9. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.... | A fairy |
| 10. To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause.... | A grumpy Dutch dictator |
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