Oh my god, the ending lyrics! Anaïs figured out how to make her new ending work! In Working on a Song she writes about trying to revise Epic III’s ending frantically before Broadway and eventually letting it go… but she did it!
I'm so glad Anaïs finally gets to share a version of Epic III that she truly, completely feels is complete now. Her musical has changed so many people in its run, and she gets to share her perfect version now. I think Donal really, really does it justice.
Thank you for capturing this! I knew nothing about the changes until Jordan Fisher sang them last night and I was so thrown by it that I couldn’t properly appreciate their beauty (maybe Jordan’s not used to them yet either). I don’t think it can top “the more he has, the more he holds” for me, but it’s a lovely ending.
hmmmm, i'm defintely missing the "the more he has the more he holds....etc" this version might have to grow on me. it's so interesting the jounry of this show, there are bits from each version of it that I love along the way
Yeah, I really preferred the lines "the greater the weight of the world on his shoulders" and "afraid to look up, and afraid to let go." These lyrics aren't bad but they feel more overt and lose that great metaphor, as well as the connection to the worker chant.
3:33 I know how it is because he is like me I know how it is to be left all alone There's a hole in his arms where the world used to be When Persephone's gone His work never done, his war never won Will go on forever, whatever the cost Cause the thing that he's building his wall around is already lost
In the book "Working on a Song," Anais Mitchell explains her difficulty with ending the song and how the ending never felt done or finished to her. She actually wrote some of the "new" lyrics way back in the day, but she never was able to make them work in the song until now :)
