Sometimes people leave you...

... halfway through the woods...

Para a Madalena, para a Ana e para a Cristina (conheci-as por esta ordem), neste primeiro aniversário que é, provavelmente, o mais doloroso de todos.

Faz agora seis meses que conheci a Madalena. Virtualmente, claro. Entre nós houve uma empatia imediata e inexplicável. Ela visitou-me e eu, ao retibuir a visita, aterrei no blóguio dela numa data muito triste. Mandei-lhe esta música, que nunca consigo ouvir sem chorar. No One Is Alone, de uma certa obra-prima chamada Into the Woods, de um génio chamado Stephen Sondheim.

Hoje, quando se cumpre um ano desde a grande perda, volto a oferecer-lha com o sorriso triste e compassivo de quem sabe que há dores que não têm remédio e saudades que não têm princípio nem fim (I know...), ofereço-a também à Ana e à Cristina (não conheço a quarta irmã nem o irmão).

No One Is Alone

Cinderella:
Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.
Sometimes people leave you.
Halfway through the wood.
Others may decieve you.
You decide whats good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone.

Little Red Riding Hood:
I wish..

Cinderella:
I know.
Mother isn't here now

Baker:
Wrong things, right things
Who knows what she'd say?
Who can say what's true?

Cinderella:
Nothings quite so clear now.

Baker:
Do things, fight things,

Cinderella:
Feel you've lost your way?

Baker:
You decide, but...

Both:
You are not alone

Cinderella:
Believe me,
No one is alone

Baker:
No one is alone.
Believe me.

Cinderella:
Truly

Both:
You move just a finger,
Say the slightest word,
Somethings bound to linger
Be heard

Baker:
No one acts alone.
Careful.
No one is alone.

Both:
People make mistakes.

Baker:
Fathers,

Cinderella:
Mothers,

Both:
People make mistakes,
Holding to their own,
Thinking their alone.

Cinderella:
Honor their mistakes

Cinderella:
Everybody makes

Baker:
Fight for their mistakes

Both:
One another's terrible mistakes.
Witches can be right, Giants can be good.
You decide what's right you decide what's good

Cinderella:
Just remember...

Baker:
Just remember...

[Echo] Just remember...

Both:
Someone is on your side

Jack:
OUR side

Baker, Cinderella:
Our side...
Someone else is not
While we're seeing our side

Jack, Little Red Riding Hood:
Our side...

Baker, Cinderella:
Our side...

All:
Maybe we forgot: they are not alone.
No one is alone.

Cinderella:
Hard to see the light now.

Baker:
Just don't let it go

Both:
Things will come out right now.
We can make it so.
Someone is on your side,
No one is alone.