The Fire Within Me Songtext

von Sutton Foster

How do I go on?
Just an empty room.
All I have are memories.
I need a task to do, someone give me a task to do.
I need a...
I thought that somehow we would always have forever.
I thought the promises we made would have a different end.
I thought the love we shared would keep us as we were.
It was the fire within me.
We dreamed and plotted with abandon in this attic.
When we were gathered her the room became our citadel.
We were amazing then my sisters and I.
They were the fire within me.
In this room I knew we were alive.
Nothing was too painful to survive.
We faced the world together.
The four of us forever.
Side by side.
Everything I promised was for them.
I was theirs no matter where or when.
How can that be lost forever?
How when I gave everything with all my heart?
It was several days before Christmas.
It was several days before Christmas.
The sisters sat about the parlour and grumbled about their fate.
Meg, the oldest and most romantic, said It's not fair that some girls have pretty things while we have nothing.
And it won't be Christmas without presents, said Amy with her usual pout.
And we haven't got Father to read to us, said Jo who yearned to travel and write great books.
Only Beth sitting contented said, in a tone sweet even angels would have listened, But we've got each other.
Everything I promised them is here.
All of us the way we used to be.
We will always have each other.
They will always be the fire in my heart.
Here I go and there's no turning back.
My great adventure has begun.
I may be small but I've got giant plans to shine as brightly as the sun.
Here in all the smallest details of the past, here in this attic, suddenly life is something vast.
The four of us forever here at last as unexpected as can be.
Astonishing.