Finale

from The Suffering of Joe Bean by Mark Nichols & Bob McAllister

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Sara is lowered down from the fly loft. Wearing pathetic wings. She starts to take the scabs off Joe's face. They are obviously just glued on.

Discovering the pulley and harness on Sara, Joe realizes that he is in a grand play.

Joe is suddenly back in the market exactly as he was at the beginning
of the show. As he confronts the masked characters he lifts
their masks, discovering son, daughters, friends neighbors long
dead. The spirits smile as if in a dream.

lyrics

JOE
Where were you?
Where have you been?

SARA
I’ve been wandering to and ‘fro on the earth.

SARA
I thought there was a way away
From bricks and stone and steel,
But the heart can heal
I’ve washed with the ashes,
And I’ve slept in grime and muck.
I’ve considered the weeds and I’ve counted all our...luck.
I heard you down in the silence of my grief
And I felt your hope wrap around me in the dark
And my heart opened, and I saw you
As you reached for me
Through this maze of despair

And the dream we made still lives
There’s a coal in my heart that will not die.
There’s a coal in the heart that’s for you.
There’s a coal in the heart that’s for you.
Just blow on the coals of my heart and we’ll get by,

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from The Suffering of Joe Bean, released December 12, 2012
Sara Returns & Finale
© 2003 from the opera "JOE BEAN"

"Sara Returns" Music by Mark Nichols, Lyrics by Nicole Schoonover & Bob McAllister; "Finale" Music & Lyrics by Mark Nichols Sax and SFX: Skerik

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