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Hear more musicRecorded on 08/15/08
Recorded by: Milburn & Vigoda
Written by: Milburn/Vigoda
Valerie Vigoda: vocal
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
We're skipping over a little portion of the show here. What happens between the previous song and this one is: HOPE and CHARLES have a son named Buddy, who dies in an accident. After this tragic event and subsequent low period in their relationship, they are eventually ready to try again. They have a daughter named Julia (nickname: Jules). Over the course of this song she grows up, from first-grader to college freshman.
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
We're skipping over a little portion of the show here. What happens between the previous song and this one is: HOPE and CHARLES have a son named Buddy, who dies in an accident. After this tragic event and subsequent low period in their relationship, they are eventually ready to try again. They have a daughter named Julia (nickname: Jules). Over the course of this song she grows up, from first-grader to college freshman.
Lyrics
HOPE
For lunch
Cha siu baau
Like her grandmother made
It'll be just like home
Her first day
Her first day of first grade
I gave her my ring
So she won't be afraid
Gold
For good luck
On her very first day
CHARLES
On her very first day of first grade
HOPE
Look there she is
There on the bus
I know she'll be fine
I know she'll be fine without us
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was our little girl
(CHARLES finds a yarmulke and he tries to get it to stay on his head.)
CHARLES
My nerves
Are a mess
And my head's
All abuzz
Today she becomes
A woman
Just like my mother was
A speech
And a song
She'll do great
Always does
Just a few
Hebrew words
And she's a woman like my mother was
HOPE
And like her mother was
CHARLES
Look there she is
A vision in blue
Almost grown up
God she looks so much like you
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was our little girl
(CHARLES exits.
HOPE finds a bottle of rum and an eight-pack of condoms.
CHARLES re-enters sans yarmulke. )
HOPE
There she goes
Puking her guts out
Reeking of tequila and pot
There she goes
Home from the prom
With her reputation totally shot
Thumbs her nose
At everything we've taught her
So what are we supposed to do
To make her stop drinking
Stop smoking
Stop screwing
Stop doing
All the things we always told her not to?
(HOPE gives CHARLES the rum and condoms and pushes him out the door.
CHARLES enters with the car keys, and drops them down on the table.)
CHARLES
For lunch
Mickey D's
Didn't have much to say
Then I just
Dropped her off
Her first day
There at UCLA
Tried to give
Her some cash
But she said, "that's okay"
No goodbye
For her dad
Just a view from behind
Of our little girl walking away
HOPE
That's how it is
What's left to discuss
I guess she'll be fine
She sure as hell doesn't need us
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was
Our little girl
There she goes...
For lunch
Cha siu baau
Like her grandmother made
It'll be just like home
Her first day
Her first day of first grade
I gave her my ring
So she won't be afraid
Gold
For good luck
On her very first day
CHARLES
On her very first day of first grade
HOPE
Look there she is
There on the bus
I know she'll be fine
I know she'll be fine without us
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was our little girl
(CHARLES finds a yarmulke and he tries to get it to stay on his head.)
CHARLES
My nerves
Are a mess
And my head's
All abuzz
Today she becomes
A woman
Just like my mother was
A speech
And a song
She'll do great
Always does
Just a few
Hebrew words
And she's a woman like my mother was
HOPE
And like her mother was
CHARLES
Look there she is
A vision in blue
Almost grown up
God she looks so much like you
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was our little girl
(CHARLES exits.
HOPE finds a bottle of rum and an eight-pack of condoms.
CHARLES re-enters sans yarmulke. )
HOPE
There she goes
Puking her guts out
Reeking of tequila and pot
There she goes
Home from the prom
With her reputation totally shot
Thumbs her nose
At everything we've taught her
So what are we supposed to do
To make her stop drinking
Stop smoking
Stop screwing
Stop doing
All the things we always told her not to?
(HOPE gives CHARLES the rum and condoms and pushes him out the door.
CHARLES enters with the car keys, and drops them down on the table.)
CHARLES
For lunch
Mickey D's
Didn't have much to say
Then I just
Dropped her off
Her first day
There at UCLA
Tried to give
Her some cash
But she said, "that's okay"
No goodbye
For her dad
Just a view from behind
Of our little girl walking away
HOPE
That's how it is
What's left to discuss
I guess she'll be fine
She sure as hell doesn't need us
HOPE/CHARLES
Look there she goes
Out in the world
It feels like a moment ago she was
Our little girl
There she goes...