Ragtime-He Wanted To Say


COALHOUSE
I said, no music

COALHOUSE FOLLOWER
He's here

COALHOUSE
Bring him in

What is it you want?

YOUNGER BROTHER
III want toI know that if

EMMA
He wanted to say:
I am here because I have to be
He wanted to say:
I am here for what is right
Every day I wake up knowing
What you've lost and what is owing
I would shed this skin if I could
To stand with you and fight
He wanted to say:

YOUNGER BROTHER
I am not who I appear to be

EMMA
He wanted to say:

YOUNGER BROTHER
Don not blame me for my past

BOTH
We different lives and faces
But our hearts have common places
This was deep inside me
And you helped me find it at last

EMMA
Two men meeting
For a moment in the darkness

COALHOUSE
One turning from

YOUNGER BROTHER
One waking to

ALL THREE
America!
Two men finding
FOr a moment in the darkness

YOUNGER BROTHER & COALHOUSE
They're the same EMMA
They're the same

COALHOUSE'S MEN
He wanted to say:

COALHOUSE
I envy you your innocence

EMMA & COALHOUSE'S MEN
He wanted to say:

YOUNGER BROTHER
By your side, I could be brave
If there's such a thing as justice,
Let me help you find you justice
This I do for you and for Sarah
Who lies in her grave

EMMA & MEN
But all he said was

YOUNGER BROTHER
I know how to blow things up

EMMA & COALHOUSE'S MEN
Two men meeting
For a moment
In the darkness
For a moment
In the darkness







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