Finale: Children Will Listen (From "Into the Woods")

Finale: Children Will Listen (《拜訪森林》電影插曲) - Into the Woods Ensemble/Bernadette Peters

Written by：Stephen Sondheim

The slotted spoon can catch the potato

Every knot was once straight rope

The harder to wake

The better to have

The greater the good

The harder the blow

When going to hide

Know how to get there

And how to get back

And eat first

The knife that is sharp today

May be dull by tomorrow

Ah ah ah ah ah

May I wasn't just meant to have children

Don't say that

Of course you were meant to have children

But how will I go about being a father

With no one to mother my child

Just calm the child

Yes calm the child

Look tell him the story

Of how it all happened

Be father and mother

You'll know what to do

Alone

Sometimes people leave you

Halfway through the wood

Do not let it grieve you

No one leaves for good

You are not alone

No one is alone

Hold him to the light now

Let him see the glow

Things will be all right now

Tell him what you know

Shhh

Once upon a time

Far off kingdom

There lived a young maiden

A sad young lad

Careful the things you say

Children will listen

And a childless baker

With his wife

Careful the things you do

Children will see

And learn

Children may not obey

But children will glisten

Children will look to you

For which way to turn

To learn what to be

Careful before you say

Listen to me

Children will listen

Careful the wish you make

Wishes are children

Careful the path they take

Wishes come true

Not free

Careful the spell you cast

Not just on children

Sometimes the spell may last

Past what you can see

And turn against you

Careful the tale you tell

That is the spell

Children will listen

Though it's fearful

Though it's deep

Though it's dark

And though you may lose the path

Though you may encounter wolves

You can't just act

You have to listen

You can't just act

You have to think

Though it's dark

There are always wolves

There are always spells

There are always beans

Or a giant dwells there

Into the woods you go again

You have to every now and then

Into the woods

No telling when

Be ready for the journey

Into the woods

But not too fast

Or what you wish

You lose at last

Into the woods

But mind the past

Into the woods

But mind the future

Into the woods

But not to stray

Or tempt the wolf

Or steal from the giant

The way is dark

The light is dim

But now there's you me her and him

The chances look small

The choices look grim

But everything you learn there

Will help when you return there

The light is getting dimmer

I think I see a glimme

Into the woods

You have to grope

But that's the way you learn to cope

Into the woods to find there's hope

Of getting through the journey

Into the woods

Each time you go

There's more to learn of what you know

Into the woods

But not too slow

Into the woods

It's nearing midnight

Into the woods to mind the wolf

To heed the witch

To honor the giant

To mind to heed to find to think

To teach to join to go to the Festival

Into the woods

Into the woods

Into the woods

Then out of the woods

And happy ever after

I wish