A Way Back to Then

Original Cast

Dancing in the backyard

Kool aid moustache and butterfly wings

Hearing Andrea Mcardle sing

From the hi fi in the den

I've been waiting my whole life

To find a way back to then

I aimed for the sky

A nine year old can see so far

I'll conquer the world and be a star

I'll do it all by the time I'm ten

I would know that confidence

If I knew a way back to then

So I bailed on my hometown

And became a college theatre dork

I was eastbound and down

Moving to New York

So I crammed my life in a uhaul

To find my part of it all

But the mundane sets in

We play by the rules

And plough through the days

The years take us miles away

From the time we wondered when

We'd find a way back to then

And when you least expect

Opportunity walks through the door

You suddenly connect

With the thing that you forgot

That you've been looking for

And there you are

Right in the middle of what you love

With the craziest of company

You're having a kick a** time

And being who you wanted to be in this world

You're that little girl

With her wings unfurled

Flying again

Back in the backyard dancing

I found a way

Back to then