| Spring Awakening – Blue Wind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This duet is gorgeous! However, it is heart breaking. Ilse is a young teen who is constantly abused by her father. This song has so much symbalism. "Sure, when it’s autumn Wind always wants to Creep up and haunt you Whistlin’ it’s got you With its heartache, with its sorrow Winter wind sings and it cries" You can almost look at this part as if her father is the wind. In the song "The Dark I Know Well" Ilse and Martha talk about how their dads will come up to their rooms and sexually assault them. He creeps up to her room and then he holds her tight and probably, in a very controlling way--he may tell her "I've got you" In the third verse Ilse is the "Blue Wind", and again, if you look at this symbolically her dad has become part of her as it is he who forces her into prostituition. I know a lot of people say that she is being positive and looking on the "bright side" of life, and trying to convense him why he should live. I used to think this too. But now after looking at it from another angle I can see that's not the case. She's actually talking about how lonely she is--how misrable life is--and how she wants him to help soak up her hurt. |
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| Spring Awakening – All That's Known Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Everyone around these kids completely ignores things such as "history" and "science" and they look more closely at things such as family and religion. It's not that they totally disregard them, but they don't want to teach them to the children, which is one of the premises for this musical. Like how they tell them that the stork brings babies, and they don't talk about the true science of reproduction. Almost like George Orwell's "1984". What Melchior is saying is that he know things that other kids don't, and if he talks about these things they get mad at him. As an example if he where to say "The stork isn't real"--then he would be yelled at and get in trouble. The best lines are "Trust in what is written", which is basically the teachers making excuses for things that don't fit in with the bible and such. Many of the students learn through the bible, which is how the teachers teach. Melchior can feel that there is more to their mundane lies, and he wants to explore the truths of life. |
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| Spring Awakening – All That's Known Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Everyone around these kids completely ignores things such as "history" and "science" and they look more closely at things such as family and religion. It's not that they totally disregard them, but they don't want to teach them to the children, which is one of the premises for this musical. Like how they tell them that the stork brings babies, and they don't talk about the true science of reproduction. Almost like George Orwell's "1984". What Melchior is saying is that he know things that other kids don't, and if he talks about these things they get mad at him. As an example if he where to say "The stork isn't real"--then he would be yelled at and get in trouble. The best lines are "Trust in what is written", which is basically the teachers making excuses for things that don't fit in with the bible and such. Many of the students learn through the bible, which is how the teachers teach. Melchior can feel that there is more to their mundane lies, and he wants to explore the truths of life. |
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| Spring Awakening – And Then There Were None Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In this song Moritz (one of the two lead guys) is recieving a letter from Melchoir's (the other lead) mother. She is letting him know that she can't give him the money to escape his problems. This gut renching song is about how Moritz slowly falls apart. How at first he is hopefull that he'll be able to leave, and when he finds out he can't, the song and his feelings completely change. At first he has a real up-beat tone, but towards the end of the song he sees the seriousness of his situation and says: "They’re not my home, not anymore Not like they so were before Still, I’ll split, and they’ll like Well, who knows?" and... "You start to cave, you start to cry You try to run, nowhere to hide You want to crumble up, and close that door" Moritz realizes that their is only one way to flee from his verbal (and at one point physically) abusive father. The irony in this song is that Moritz really did pass, but his teachers fail him just because they can only promote 60 students to the next year, and they didn't like him. So his two teachers team up and fail him. Even though this song isn't considered one of the biggest songs in the play, it completely is. It shows how dumb and in the dark the adults are, and how awake the kids are. (However the adults don't realize that everything they do has a huge impact and always effects the kids) This song is often played off, but it's such an amazing song and it truely shows the loss of hope for a young fifteen year old who is just trying to find his place in society. But, is driven to suicide by its rejection and harsh reality. |
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