Lyrics Finale / Children Will Listen, Part 1 - Stephen Sondheim

Maybe I just wasn′t meant to have children...
Don't say that,
Of corse you were meant to have children...
But how will I go about being a father
With no one to mother my child?
Just calm the child.
Yes, calm the child.
Look, tell him the story
Of how it all happened.
Be father and mother,
You′ll know what to do.
Alone?...
Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood.
Do not let it grieve you,
No one leaves for good.
You are not alone.
No one is alone.
Hold him to the light now,
Let him see the glow.
Things will be all right now.
Tell him what you know...
Shhh. Once upon a time... in a far-off kingdom...
There lived a young maiden... a sad young lad...
And a childless baker... with his wife...
Careful the things you say,
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do,
Children will see.
And learn.
Children may not obey,
Buit children will listen.
Children will look to you
For which way to tuen,
To learn what to be.
Careful before you say,
"Listen to me."
Children will listen.
Careful the wish you make,
Wishes are children.
Careful the path they take-
Wishes come true,
Not free.
Careful the spell you cast,
Not just on shildren.
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you see
And turn against you...
Careful the tale you tell.
That is the spell.
Children will listen...