The Party's Over - Bells Are Ringing and I think there's a song in some musical about France in the 1800s, but I have a miserable memory for such things on my own.
..............what else does it strike you as? It's probably the song that best defines heartbreak, though more over the reality of life than over Cliff.
Always Starting Over - If/Then I'm Here - The Color Purple Let the Sun Shine In - Hair With You - Ghost You Must Love Me - Evita And I am Telling You I'm Not Going - Dreamgirls Lot's Wife - Caroline, or Change It All Fades Away - The Bridges of Madison County Electricity - Billy Elliot Hold Me In Your Heart - Kinky Boots All I Ask of You (Reprise) - The Phantom of the Opera Your Eyes - Rent Those You've Known - Spring Awakening I'd Give My Life for You - Miss Saigon
I didn't say you were wrong. We both just interpret the song differently. I said that because the lyrics of the song are, in my view, different from the meaning of the song.
Fantod - for me, as I said earlier, it's how it feels. I'm not about interpreting the lyrics. It's how it feels when I hear it and when I sing it (or hum it since my voice leaves a lot to be desired).
Must be a left brain/right brain thing. I have no vested interest in caring about it - it just struck me when I saw Cabaret. On the plus side, I've been humming it since I read it in this thread. And it makes me happy. Go figure. But I'll concede I'm not a student of theater and music. I just feel it.
I've never been sure exactly how to read Cabaret, since it's a diagetic number that comments ironically on the larger world of the show. On the one hand, it's about pitching yourself to the wind and living a freewheeling lifestyle, not worried about where you'll land or how long you'll live, and poo-pooing anyone who tries to stop you. On the other hand, it's a commentary on the way people let the rising Nazi party off the hook as they barreled into the Holocaust. Sometimes Sally sings it triumphantly, as if she's desperately brushed aside everything that's happened with Cliff and given herself totally and completely over to the cabaret life. Sometimes she sings it angrily, and it becomes a character number about pushing herself away from the pain. I don't know if I'd say the song itself is literally about heartbreak, but the context can give it that spin.
Anyways, my nomination is for The I Love You Song from 25th Annual Putnam etc, which tears me apart every time I listen to it.