Lyrics: Brian Yorkey/Tom Kitt
Music: Tom Kitt
Why stay
Why stay
So steadfast and stolid and stoic and solid
For day after every day
Why stay
Why stay
Why not simply give in and get on with living
Cause everyone knows you tried
But somehow something died on the way
Tell me why you stay
Why stay
Why stay
Enduring and coping and hurting and hoping
For day after f*****g day
Why stay
Why stay
Why not simply end it
We'd all comprehend it
And most of the world would say
He's better off that way to be free
And maybe so is she
A promise
A boy says forever
A boy says
Whatever may come well come through
And who can know how when all I know now
To be true is this promise that I make to you
A question
A boy wonders whether
A boy wonders
The two stay together
The way that they stay
For year after year
For love or for fear
Either way
That's the promise
That I made that day
Here's what I say
To the girl who was burning so brightly
Like the light from orion above
And still I will search for her nightly
If you see her please send her my love
And the boy was a boy for all seasons
The boy is long gone
The boy is long-lost to me now
So lost
And the man has forgotten his reasons
But the man still remembers his vow
A promise
A man says forever
A man says I'll never regret or let you
The promise I made to stay
And I stay true
Knowing one day we'd remember that joy
You'd remember that girl
I'd remember that boy
Til we do the promise I made
I'll make it brand new
The promise that I made to you