Song of Purple Summer (stage version)

Spring Awakening Song of the Day #19 (part 2)

"(The) Song of Purple Summer"
Character(s): All

**This is the version used onstage. IMO, this version is much prettier than the soundtrack version. YouTube it, seriously. It's gorgeous.

Listen to what's in the heart of a child
A song so big in one so small
Soon you'll hear where beauty lies
You'll hear and you'll recall

The sadness, the doubt
All the loss, all the grief
Will belong to some play from the past
As the child leads the way to a dream, a belief
A time of hope through the land

A summer's day
A mother sings
A song of purple summer
At the heart of everything

And Heaven waits
So close it seems
To show her child the wonder
Of a world beyond her dreams

The earth will wave with corn
The days so wide, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions as they mate
Foals they've bore

And all shall know the wonder
Of purple summer

And so I wait
The swallow brings
A song of what's to follow
The glory of the spring
The fences sway (the fences sway)
The porches swing (the porches swing)
The clouds begin to thunder
Crickets wander, murmuring

The earth will wave with corn
The days so wide, so warm
And mares will neigh
With stallions as they mate
Foals they've bore

And all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer
All shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer

All shall know the wonder
Of purple summer

All
Ilse