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Quiet Reservation

from We Didn't Have Time to Be Scared by Geha

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Original Cast Recording. In this track, the family leaves Vienna on a midnight train to avoid arrest.

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The clock strikes midnight in the station
The train is waiting on the track
And I see my life reduced to what I carry
And I wear upon my back

I have a quiet reservation
I have a paralyzed concern
I have no choice, I have a one-way ticket only for I know I won't return

And if I could feel, I would be terrified
Instead I’ll pray the grass is greener on the other side

I hear the train's acceleration
I see my country fade away
I hold my family, and they're safe and sound beside me
And I know that I'm okay
I'll be okay…

And I've got no time to be terrified
Instead I’ll pray the grass is greener on the other side

I wish I could lose my anger like I've lost my home
However 'cause I was forced out,
I can't be calmed by force alone
They stole my nation and they stole my neighbor they can’t steal my pride
So I will hold my head up high as I cross through this great divide
And I will pray the grass is greener on the other side
Oh, please let it be greener on the other side

I swallow all my desperation
The train slows down and we are there
I see a new day and a new world and a hope that maybe someone's heard my prayer

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from We Didn't Have Time to Be Scared, released July 30, 2011
Recorded live by the cast of We Didn't Have Time to be Scared
Music and lyrics by Andrew Geha

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Geha New York, New York

Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher who has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001.

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