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Swept Away: A New Musical Tale Soundtrack Album Lyrics
Swept Away: A New Musical Tale Soundtrack Lyrics
- Prelude by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- The Charnel House by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Go to Sleep by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Hard Worker (Part 1) by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Nothing Short of Thankful by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Hard Worker (Part 2) by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Swept Away by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Lord Lay Your Hand on My Shoulder by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Ain't No Man by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- May It Last by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Murder in the City by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- The Shipwreck by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- A Gift for Melody Anne by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Through My Prayers by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Two Tableaux by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Satan Pulls the Strings by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- No Hard Feelings by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Go to Sleep (Reprise) by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
- Finale by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
Writer: POUYAN SEAN AFKARY, CHAD LANE CRAWFORD, JAMIE ETHRIDGE, STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER KIRBY, TYSON CURTIS STEVENS, DAVID JOHN WILSON
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
The Charnel House
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers, John Gallagher, Jr., Adrian Blake Enscoe, Stark Sands, Wayne Duvall ]
[Mate, spoken]
Not even here...
Not even in this charnel house can I rid myself of you
[Little Brother, spoken]
We're bound together, shipmate
[Big Brother, spoken]
Lashed to the wheel
[Captain, spoken]
And the waves are rising
[Little Brother, spoken]
Do you not feel the spray?
[Big Brother, spoken]
And there's no food
[Little Brother, spoken]
And there's no water
[Captain, spoken]
And the sun is blazing
[Little Brother, spoken]
And there's no hope of rescue
[Big Brother, spoken]
You best drop to your knees, son
[Captain, spoken]
Find God if you can
[Big Brother, spoken]
Pray your heart out
[Captain, spoken]
Wake heaven
[Big Brother, spoken]
Salvation? He doesn't believe in the word
[Little Brother, spoken]
Have you told them our story?
It would beat Shiloh hands down, wouldn't it, big brother?
[Big Brother, spoken]
That it would, little brother
[Little Brother, spoken]
You should tell them our story
[Captain, spoken]
We should be remembered
[Big Brother, spoken]
What you did
[Little Brother, spoken]
Should be remembered
[Mate, spoken]
What I did
[Captain, spoken]
Tell them our story
[Mate, spoken]
Let me die in peace!
[Captain, spoken]
There's no peace until you speak the words
[Big Brother, spoken]
No peace for you, or for us
[Little Brother, spoken]
We cannot escape
[Big Brother, spoken]
We cannot move on
[All except Mate, spoken]
Until you tell our story
[Big Brother, spoken]
And tell it true
[Little Brother, spoken]
And tell it all
[Big Brother, spoken]
Bring it into the light
[Little Brother, spoken]
Don't be afraid of it anymore
[Captain, spoken]
Bring us into the light
[Big Brother, spoken]
Release us
[Little Brother, spoken]
Don't you want to find some peace?
[Captain, spoken]
Some corner of heaven?
[Big Brother, spoken]
God only gives you but one chance to testify true
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Go to Sleep
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers, Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall, John Gallagher, Jr. ]
Fess up, fess up, tell the truth, my man
Unless takin' it to hell is your plan
Forgive yourself if you think you can
Tell the tale, tell the tale, my man
And this is your last chance, shipmate
Don't you feel the blood filling your lungs?
You can taste it
You're dying. Doubt you'll see another sunrise
Tell our story
Release us
Release yourself
It's now or never
And don't beg our forgiveness, seek your own
Twenty-one days lost at sea I fought
For twenty-two years non-stop I've talked
Through the desert, pissed-drunk, and confused I walked
I spit a tooth in the palm of my hand
Yeah
Fess up, fess up, tell the truth, my man
Unless takin' it to hell is your plan
Forgive yourself if you think you can
Tell the tale, tell the tale, my man
Yeah
The wind and the trees are ganging up on me
They sing my funeral song in harmony
I just wanna walk home unaccompanied
They keep singin'
They keep singin' and a singin'
They keep singin'
Singin' they keep singin' to me
Oh, oh
Singin' to me
Oh, oh
I hear 'em singin'
Oh, oh
Well, I wish things were different true and deep
But everything that's so shallow is everything about me
You know they told me I could just take my money and leave
I hope the people on the ground'll understand
I hope the people in the crowd'll understand
Fess up, fess up, tell the truth, my man
Wipe the blood from your face and your hands
Forgive yourself if you think you can
Tell the truth, tell the truth, my man
Oh, tell the truth
Tell the truth my man
Oh, tell the truth
Tell the truth my man
Oh, tell the truth
Tell the truth my man
Such a story it is for those that are partway in love with tragedy. In this grim hospital ward, we're all dead and dying, so the story suits us ... But then, you're all dead and dying too. Aren't you just? Think back to when you were younger than you are. When you could draw deep breaths and were taller and braver and truer. And you fell in love every morning and out every night and tomorrow was always better and summer just around the corner and the whole goddamn spinning world was one big game of chance and, brother, you won!
Oh, oh
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Hard Worker (Part 1)
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
I'm a hard, hard worker every day
I'm a hard, hard worker, I'm workin' every day
I'm a hard, hard worker and I'm savin' all my pay
If I ever get some money put away
I'm going to take it all out to celebrate
I'm a hard, hard worker every day
Well, I woke up early this morn
Well, I woke up early
And I woke up early this morn, morn, morn
Yeah, I woke up early this morn
And I got up early to sing
And I got up early
And I got up early to sing
I got up early to sing
'Cause I'm a hard, hard worker, I'm workin' every day
I'm a hard, hard worker and I'm savin' all my pay
If I ever get some money put away
I'm going to take it all out to celebrate
I'm a hard, hard worker every day
New Bedford was past its day even then. 1888 this was. Twenty-two years earlier. And wasn't I the handsome young scapegrace? Eye to the main chance and always one to get by best on my wits and, you might say, occasional guile. Life's happenstance led me on a circuitous downward spiral to this place and these sad old ships. This was the end of the road for me: second mate on a triple-master heading out in search of the great Leviathans. Now, the whaling trade was dying then and we all knew it. Anyone who still hunted these waters was clinging to a fading dream. We have secured the boats, standing by for the harbor pilot
I don't know how they did it on your previous command, but when you are on my ship you address the Captain as "Sir" you say "Sir" you say it loudly and you say it every time. You hear me?
Sorry, sir
Are we ready to cast off?
Almost, sir
Almost?!
Yes, sir. We're still lacking one of our crew
Where the hell is he?
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Nothing Short of Thankful
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Hey man!
Yes?
I'm packed and ready to set sail
Well I
Guess--
I gotta lot of friends to make!
Who is this--
Fool?
Hard to say exactly what he is
Guess we've been cursed
Blessed!
Sure as hell it don't feel that way
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'm walkin' a diff'rent highway
Nothin' gonna change my mind
You're travelin' a different line
Oh, nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find what i need if you let me
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find mine
Shipmates!
Yes?
Raise the sails and haul the anchor up.
Please try to accept apologies for the lateness that i've caused
Can you stand
Still I'm nothing short of grateful for my trip
God help me
I'm nothing short of thankful
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'm walkin' a diff'rent highway
Nothin' gonna change my mind
You're travelin' a different line
Oh, nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find what i need if you let me
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find mine
Found you
What the hell are you doing here?!
You get your ass over here and off this boat right now!
You followed me here?!
Tracked you every step of the way, now come on! We're going home!
You got no business chasing me down like a hunted rabbit.
Then stop running like one.
I'm not going home. I'm going to sea.
Don't normally get such high drama leaving port...
You stay out of it!
Nothin' gonna change my mind
You're walkin' a diff'rent highway
Nothin' gonna change my mind
You're travelin' a different line
Oh, nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find what I need if I want it
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find mine
Gang's aweigh!
No!
Boss man said work your way
Put it off for another day
I'm not listening tomorrow may not come
Lazy men find an easy way
Easy work for easy pay
I'm not listening there ain't no such a thing as that
STOP! Turn this ship around!
Son, this is a 300-ton vessel just left its berth for the open sea, you can't just turn it around like Aunt Polly's carriage off to Sunday school. Captain! We have a new crew member, sir.
Show me your papers.
Got no papers, sir. Another farmer boy.
Another goddamn useless gangly hayseed sonofabitch?! All right, put him to work.
You heard the Captain. Like it or not, you're both whalers now. Hope you enjoy our little scenic cruise through the romantic South Seas.
Sir, sir, please listen to me. I want to go with you. All I want to do is see the world and have a proper adventure. But he's got nothing to do with this!
He does now. I do wonder if you have any idea what you signed up for.
I didn't sign up for nothin'! This is pure piracy!
Well, I'm ready for it. Far as I'm concerned anything's got to beat the ass end of a plow mule, right?
Hey, I'll tell you what, you ask me that again when we've been at sea for three months without land in sight and you're covered with whale blood and there's no food but hardtack and sour water you can't keep down and you haven't had a proper shit in a week and your hands are bleeding from the ropes and your face is crusted with salt so your eyes sting which means you can't sleep and the waves are pounding and the ship is rolling and bucking like a two-bit dockside sportin' lady and you like to slit your own throat to get one blessed minute of goddamn peace.
Hell, man, you ever seen the ass end of a plow mule?
One, two,
One, two, three, four!
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'm walkin' a diff'rent highway
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'm travelin' a different line
Oh, nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find what i need if i want it
Nothin' gonna change my mind
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Sweet lord, I did not bargain for this!
We been through worse, big brother. Blizzard of '82 for one. You recall that pestilence.
At least we were home.
Not again
We belong at home.
Then you should have goddamn stayed there! I never asked you to come rooting after me!
You think I wanted to step away planting time to come save your threadbare ass?!
That's you all over plowing, reaping, sowing. Damn, look past the hedgerows, brother.
Still don't quite comprehend how you two ended up here. You don't seem, shall we say, natural mariners.
I left home, you follow? Couldn't stand one more day on that damn farm doing the same hard thing every hard day. There's got to be more in this life I reckon. Anything, everything, let it hit me, let it pummel me to my knees just let me live!
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Hard Worker (Part 2)
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Well I give my thanks to the lord
And I give my thanks to the lord, lord, lord, lord
Lord, please give me some more
And I got way down on my knees
Sayin' lord, can't you help me if you please, please, please
Can you save me from this workin' man's disease
So he up and fled, without a word. At planting time, no less. Leaves his home and family and congregation.
And my beautiful Melody Anne. We was aiming toward marriage.
Lovely girl from a proper family, you understand.
Oh, I'm sure.
But it was like I could suddenly see my whole life writ work the fields, marry the girl, have the family, tithe to God, follow that plow mule until you drop dead of exhaustion and they shove you right into that same hard earth you plowed the
Day before and that's all you got! Everyone in this life deserves one goddamn frolic before he's done!
Amen, brother.
So I follow him here. Won't stop until he is home and safe and dry.
And had one f*ck of an adventure!
Load in
Load out
Get down
Get out
Load in
Load out
Get down
Get out
Drive home
Too late
My mind stays crooked
And my back stays straight
I'm a hard, hard worker, I'm workin' ev'ryday
I'm a hard, hard worker, and I'm savin' all my pay
If I ever get some money put away
I'm gonna take it all out to celebrate
I'm a hard, hard worker ev'ryday--
I'm a hard, hard worker ev'ryday
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Swept Away
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Well you send my life a whirling
Darling when you're twirling
On the floor
And who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow
Than another day?
When you swept me away
Yeah you swept me away
What was her name again?
What? Oh. Melody Anne. My beautiful Melody Anne.
Hard not to think of the gals left in port.
She was my only. See it's hard where I grew up. The land's hard, the people are hard. Sometimes it seemed like Melody Anne was the only soft thing in the county
Life is ever changing, but I will always
Find a constant and comfort in your love
With your heart my soul is bound
And as we dance I know that heaven can be found
When you swept me away
Yeah you swept me away
I see the end of the rainbow
But what more is a rainbow
Than colors out of reach?
If you come down to my window
And I'll climb out my window
Then we'll get out of reach.
Well you send my life a whirling
Darling when you're twirling
On the floor
And who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow
Than another day?
When you swept me away
Yeah you swept me away
Enjoy your night, lad.
You too, sir.
She sounds like a fine girl.
Yeah you swept me away
Yeah you swept me away
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Timothy Seth Avett, Robert William Crawford
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Lord Lay Your Hand on My Shoulder
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
Guide me to our home
The sea, for all of its beauty
Is just the great unknown
My fear is like a passing breeze
And my faith is like a stone
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
And guide me to our home
I don't deserve the blessings you've showered over me
I've spent my whole life cradled by your precious grace and majesty
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
And guide me to our home
My death is but a pittance and hardly my concern
This life is but a moment
To you I shall return
Oh, my father who art in heaven
Now, thy will be done
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
And guide me to our-
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Ain't No Man
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
There ain't no man-can save me
There ain't no man-can enslave me
Ain't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in
There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear
Cause I got only love to share
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
You got to serve something, ain't that right?
I know it gets dark, but there's always a light
You don't have to buy in to get into the club
Trade your worries
You gotta show up if you wanna be seen
If it matters to you, ma, it matters to me
I'm going to fall hard, yeah i know I am
When the clowns crack up, I laugh with them
There ain't no man-can save me
There ain't no man-can enslave me
Ain't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in
There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear
Cause I got only love to share
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
You say you look funny, I say you're a star
I say you're whatever you think you are
Watch the naysayers fall right in line
If we believe it they'll say
""he's so pretty
He's so fine.""
There ain't no man-can save me
There ain't no man-can enslave me
Ain't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in
There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear
Cause I got only love to share
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
Oh my father who art in heaven
Now thy will be done
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
And guide me to our home
There ain't no man-can save me
There ain't no man-can enslave me
Ain't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in
There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear
Cause I got only love to share
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
If you're looking for truth, I'm proof you'll find it there
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
May It Last
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Six bells, sir. All's well. Shall I mark the log?
Do you see the phosphorus on the ocean there? All glowing and green. It's an omen, that.
Sir?
The glow in the waves there. It's meant to be an ill omen. A portent of witches above and tempests below: of cruel weather ahead.
You believe in such premonitions?
I'm a sailor, I believe in everything. I was a cabin boy at eight you know. Spent my life at sea, hunting the whales from one ocean to the next. Wife and children left behind, and no regrets for that if I'm honest. My place was always here.
Do you truly not miss the land, sir?
What am I on shore? An old man with unsteady legs. A tiny man. Here I'm a giant. Here I'm a man who faces down God himself. You're not a seafaring man by nature. You can't understand the great tragedy of the sea.
Tragedy, sir?
There is a sea, and I am a captain
Of something unknown, waves high as mountains
There is a key, and there is a light
Here's to times that I catch it
May it last through the night
When the engine won't turn
When the fire won't burn
Like it did when we felt it
Deep in our hearts
You're the one reason why
I look up and smile
Wishing for love
And I'm ready to forge ahead
There is a sea, and I am a captain
Of something unknown, waves high as mountains
There is a key, and there is a light
Here's to times that I catch it
May it last through the night
You've found the life that suits you, sir. That's a rare thing.
Not that it matters, when all's said. No one wants us anymore, my friend. No one needs whale oil. We have paraffin now and kerosene. Kerosene. And a whole way of life finished just like that. And what do we whalers do then? Go to port? Take up some landward trade? Sell scrimshaw to the tourists? Or do we just -- disappear? Hell, what are we but useless men hunting a vanishing prey in a dying trade?
I'm as low as they come
I'm what shouldn't be done
Filthy and lost
Still up for trying
Untie the rudder
Guide them away
Take me I'll serve you
Take me I'll serve
There is a sea, and I am a captain
Of something unknown, waves high as mountains
There is a key, and there is a light
Here's to times that I catch it
May it last through the night
May it last through the night
Writer: TIMOTHY AVETT, SCOTT AVETT, ROBERT CRAWFORD
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Murder in the City
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
If I get murdered in the city
Don't go revengin' in my name
One person dead from such is plenty
No need to go get locked away
When I leave your arms
The things that I think of
No need to get over-alarmed
I'm comin' home
I wonder which brother is better
Which one our parents love the most
I sure did get in lots of trouble
They seem to let the other go
A tear fell from my father's eyes
I wondered what my dad would say
He said:
""I love you and I'm proud of you both
In so many different ways.""
If I get murdered in the city
Go read the letter in my desk
Don't bother with all my belongings
But pay attention to the list
Make sure my sister knows I loved her
Make sure my mother knows the same
Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name
Make sure my sister knows I loved her
Make sure my mother knows the same
Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name
Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name
Oh, oh, oh...
Oh, oh, oh...
Oh, oh, oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Writer: Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
The Shipwreck
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
Guide me to our home
My days are just about over
The here after's unknown
Oh...
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Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Guide me to our home
My days are just about over
The here after's unknown
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Oh...
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
A Gift for Melody Anne
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
I wanna get back
I wanna get square
I wanna get back all the hopes and dreams that I had
That the good lord above us can spare
Like the preacher said
I don't wanna lose heart
I don't wanna get beat beat down by the big big world
Or quit before I even start
Lord, I just want my life to be true
(I just want my life to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my heart to be true
(I just want my heart to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my words to be true
(I just want my words)
I want my soul to feel brand new
I wanna hold hands
Yeah, and I wanna make love
And I wanna keep running all day, and all night
Even when my mind tells my body ""that's enough""
And I wanna stand up
Yeah, and I wanna stand tall
If I ever have a son, if I ever have a daughter
I don't wanna tell them that I didn't give my all
Yeah!
And i just want my life to be true
(I just want my life to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my heart to be true
(I just want my heart to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my words to be true
(I just want my words)
I want my soul to feel brand, brand new
Like a fresh coat of paint
We could make it anything but blue
Anything but blue
Now when your dreams start saying
""I can't come true, you'd be better off without me""
Don't let em go
Don't let them go!
And i just want my life to be true
(I just want my life to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my heart to be true
(I just want my heart to be true)
Yeah, and I just want my words to be true
(I just want my words)
I want my soul to feel brand, brand new
Like a fresh coat of paint
We could make it anything but blue
Anything but blue
I want my soul to feel brand new
I want my soul to feel brand new
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Through My Prayers
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
To my darling Melody Anne. We shall not meet again. By the time you read this I will be dead.
It's hard to believe
I won't see you again.
We were just fighting when winter began
The coldness of our words
Competing with the wind from the north
Still they make me shiver
But in a very different way
The pages of the calendar kept turning away
I have some better words now
But it's too late to say them to you
My dream of all dreams
And my hope of all hopes
Is only to tell you and make sure you know
How much I love you and how much I always did
And yes, I know you loved me
I could see it in your eyes
And it was in your struggle and it was in your mind
And it was in the smile you gave me when i was a kid
To my wife...I have led my ship into the teeth of a squall. My entire crew is dead but for we four in the lifeboat. All those other good men dead and drowned. And I did not have the grace to die with them. I never had any grace...
But now I understand
And now my only chance
To talk to you is
Through my prayers
I only wanted to tell you I cared
Final words to my dear mother and father...I will not let my brother die alone.
Every night after and every day since
I found myself crying when the memory hits
Sometimes it knocks me down
Sometimes I can just put it away
Down in my mind, where I don't care to go
The pain of a lesson is letting me know
If you have love in your heart
Let it show while you can
Yes now I understand
But now my only chance to talk to you is
Through my prayers
I only wanted to tell you
I only wanted to tell you
I only wanted to tell you
I only wanted to tell you I cared.
And who do I write to? The sporting ladies and dockside whores? There is no one awaiting my last words. No one to sing along with my peculiar threnody...No tears for me. This is the life I have made.
Writer: ROBERT WILLIAM CRAWFORD, SCOTT YANCEY AVETT, TIMOTHY SETH AVETT
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Satan Pulls the Strings
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Baby's in the cradle
Mama's in the bed
Sparrows on the window sill
And the devil's in my head
The devil's in my head, mama
The devil's in my head
Baby's in the cradle
And the devil's in my head
Baby's in the cradle
Mama's in the bed
Sparrows on the window sill
And the devil's in my head
Devil's in my head, mama
The devil's in my head
Baby's in the cradle
And the devil's in my head
Winter yields to summertime
The whip-poor-will, she sings
My heart is in the puppet box,
And satan pulls the strings
Satan pulls the strings, mama
Satan pulls the strings
My heart is in the puppet box,
And satan pulls the strings
Oh...
Mama's cooking something up
Serve it to us all
Satan's ringing in now,
And I gotta take the call
Gotta take the call, boys
Gotta take the call
Satan's ringing in now,
And I gotta take the call
Baby's in the cradle
(Baby's in the cradle)
Mama's in the bed
(Mama's in the bed)
Sparrows on the window sill,
And the devil's in my head
(Devil's in my head)
Devil's in my head, mama
The devil's in my head
Baby's in the cradle,
And the devil's in my head"
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
No Hard Feelings
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
When my body won't hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Will I be ready?
When my feet won't walk another mile
And my lips give their last kiss goodbye
Will my hands be steady?
When I lay down my fears, my hopes, and my doubts
The rings on my fingers, and the keys to my house
With no hard feelings
When the sun hangs low in the west
And the light in my chest
Won't be kept held at bay any longer
When the jealousy fades away
And it's ash and dust for cash and lust
And it's just hallelujah
And love in thoughts, love in the words
Love in the songs they sing in the church
And no hard feelings
Lord knows they haven't done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold
Mmm...
When my body won't hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south
Through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true
And shake hands laughing?
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love i've known in my life
And no hard feelings
Lord knows they haven't done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold
Under the curving sky
I'm finally learning why
It matters for me and you
To say it and mean it too
For life and its loveliness
And all of its ugliness
Good as it's been to me
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Go to Sleep (Reprise)
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Fess up, fess up, tell the truth my man
Wipe the blood from your face and your hands
Forgive yourself if you think you can
Tell the truth, tell the truth my man
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Finale
by Swept Away Original Broadway Cast
[ Featuring The Avett Brothers ]
Once I was a carpenter, and man, my hands were callused
I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight
But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry
And I left the timbers rotting where they lay
Forever I will move
Like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction
I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender
And remember we're all in this together
If you live the life you're given, you won't be scared to die
There are calm seas ahead. Sail on.
Keep going, brother.
Make yourself clean.
My life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket
Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind
Hope and fear go with it
And the moon and the sun go spinning
Like the numbers and the fruit before our eyes
Sometimes I hit
Sometimes it robs me blind
Sometimes I hit
Sometimes it robs me blind
Forever I will move
Like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction
I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender
And remember well we're all in this together
Oh...
If i live the life i'm given, i won't be scared to die
Oh, oh, oh, oh...
Ah...
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
Guide me to our home
My days are just about over
The here after's unknown
The sea can have this tired heart
The sun can bleach my bones
Oh...
Lord, lay your hand on my shoulder
And guide me
(guide me)
Guide me
(guide me)
Guide me
Oh...
Ah
Home
Well you send my life a whirling
Darling when you're twirling
On the floor
And who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow
Than another day?
When you swept me away
Well you swept me away
Yeah you swept me away
Writer: BA Robertson, Don Grady, Michael Crawford
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
The original Broadway cast recording of Swept Away, the shipwreck musical thriller set to the music of the Avett Brothers, has been released as a new recording and a CD on February 7, 2025.
The cast album features Avett Brothers songs such as "Hard Worker,” "Murder in the City," "No Hard Feelings,” "Ain't No Man" and the title song performed by the show's cast, led by John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall. Completing the ensemble are Josh Breckenridge, Hunter Brown, Matt DeAngelis, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Rico LeBron, Michael J. Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza, Chase Peacock, Tyrone L. Robinson, David Rowen and John Sygar. Swings include John Michael Finley and Robert Pendilla.
Swept Away is a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, primarily from the album Mignonette. The show's book is by John Logan. It premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2022 before moving to Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where it ran from November 25 to January 14, 2024. It began previews on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on October 29, 2024, opening on November 19, 2024. It announced a closing date of December 15, 2024. A two week extension was added, setting the new closing date for December 29, 2024.
The Broadway creative team includes music supervisor Brian Usifer, music arrangers/orchestrators Chris Miller and Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke and Tony Award-winning sound designer John Shivers. The album is produced by Usifer, Miller, Van Dyke and Madison Wells Live.
The show follows four sailors, who are shipwrecked off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1888. The story is drawn from the 1884 shipwreck which also inspired the Avett Brothers' album. The show is 90 minutes in total runtime with no intermission.
-Wikipedia
Genre(s):
Soundtrack, Musical The cast album features Avett Brothers songs such as "Hard Worker,” "Murder in the City," "No Hard Feelings,” "Ain't No Man" and the title song performed by the show's cast, led by John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe and Wayne Duvall. Completing the ensemble are Josh Breckenridge, Hunter Brown, Matt DeAngelis, Cameron Johnson, Brandon Kalm, Rico LeBron, Michael J. Mainwaring, Orville Mendoza, Chase Peacock, Tyrone L. Robinson, David Rowen and John Sygar. Swings include John Michael Finley and Robert Pendilla.
Swept Away is a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, primarily from the album Mignonette. The show's book is by John Logan. It premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2022 before moving to Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where it ran from November 25 to January 14, 2024. It began previews on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on October 29, 2024, opening on November 19, 2024. It announced a closing date of December 15, 2024. A two week extension was added, setting the new closing date for December 29, 2024.
The Broadway creative team includes music supervisor Brian Usifer, music arrangers/orchestrators Chris Miller and Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke and Tony Award-winning sound designer John Shivers. The album is produced by Usifer, Miller, Van Dyke and Madison Wells Live.
The show follows four sailors, who are shipwrecked off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1888. The story is drawn from the 1884 shipwreck which also inspired the Avett Brothers' album. The show is 90 minutes in total runtime with no intermission.
-Wikipedia
Released: February 7th, 2025
Year: 2025