For Good

Ever since MP3 players were banned from work, I haven’t been listening to my “collection” of Broadway songs. There was a time when I spend the whole day alternating among the soundtracks of Rent, Wicked, The Last Five Years, and Spring Awakening. I miss those times. At home I’m usually too busy browsing the Web and trying to write that I can’t focus on the music (not that I don’t focus on work, heh). 

Anyway, here’s one of my favorites from Wicked. This rehearsal video of Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth is one of the best things I’ve ever found on YouTube.

I’ve heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don’t know if I believe that’s true
But I know I’m who I am today
Because I knew you:

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good