DESCRIPTION:
Original Broadway Cast, 2014
Whitney Bashor
Music by Jason Robert Brown

Lyrics:

Put inside the picture frame
some tables and a coffee pot
a uniform, a girl of 23.
Sitting at a table put a man of 37,
as exotic as that girl would ever see
Have her standing over him and laughing,
as he's asking her a question no one thought to ask before.
Color him with mystery and color her with danger
And expose them just enough to wish for more

And there was something there between us,
Something I could never name.
Something stronger something stranger,
More than quicksand more than flame,
Another life

Further down the gallery,
a picture of a couple on a honeymoon in Merikesh somewhere
See him with his camera and his eye
And see her grasping at his hand afraid he doesn't know she's there,
And there was something deep inside him,
Something I could never reach
Like he saw it getting closer in a window on a beach,
Another life

Another life
But I believed I'd grow to be,
The thing he needed most to see.
And if our nights just stayed this hot,
I'd break him down,
He'd open up.
Well obviously not.

Back there in a shadow, find a picture of a woman
Wearing four years of confusion like a scar,
Walking through the door and leaving nothing but a note that says,
"I'm sorry Robert" taped to her guitar,
And there's so much I still wonder.
Did he need me? Did he know?
Love is open, love is easy,
That was someone long ago.
Another life,
Another life.