"And Eve Was Weak" Lyrics from Carrie the Musical (1988 Stratford Production)

MARGARET

And God made Eve from Adam's rib and Eve was weak

and Eve was weak

and Eve was weak

and God made Eve to bear the curse

the curse of blood

the curse of blood

The raven came to plague the world,

it's name was sin

CARRIE

It's not a sin

MARGARET

it's name was sin

CARRIE

Oh Momma it's not a sin

MARGARET

it's name was sin begin!

And lust was how the sin began

and sin was man

CARRIE

I don't understand

MARGARET

understand?!?

CARRIE

No!

MARGARET

The sin was man!

CARRIE

What have I done?

MARGARET

God has seen your sinning just beginning

Pray for your salvation

From damnation

Pray or he will burn you

he will burn you

The seed conveys the power and its come again

CARRIE

Momma what is this seed?

MARGARET

It's come again

It's come again

CARRIE (throughout second line)

Don't you care that I started to bleed

MARGARET

Until the seed is crushed the power never ends

CARRIE

Oh the girls were so cruel

MARGARET

it never ends

it never ends

CARRIE (throughout second line)

and they treated me like a fool

Momma I was so scared

and they all stared

I thought I was dying

I started crying, Momma!

                                          CARRIE                                      MARGARET

                                              Please                                                                            

                                               don't                                 You'll become Satan's 

                                                hurt                                               bride

                                               me                                Pray for mercy get down on your

                                             Please                                                knees

                                             don't                                        You've got Jezebel's

                                              hurt                                                    pride

                                                me                                 and your Soul is a hole of disease

MARGARET

I can see you inside

CARRIE

Don't believe with your eyes

MARGARET

I can see how you lied

CARRIE

But I never told lies

MARGARET

That's how Lucifer fell

CARRIE

Momma how could I know

MARGARET

And you're headed for hell

                                     CARRIE                                                MARGARET

                               Momma let me go!!                                  I won't let you go!!

                                 I'm not a sinner                                    Heaven hates a sinner!

                                 I'm not a sinner                                          hates a sinner!

                        Momma, stop. That's burning!                 Save your soul from burning

                                 Stop, it's burning                                      God, she's burning.

                                       Momma                                                     Pray or

MARGARET

He

CARRIE

No!

MARGARET

will

CARRIE

No! Please!

MARGARET

burn

CARRIE

Momma please let me go!

MARGARET

you.

He

CARRIE

No please

MARGARET

will

CARRIE

Momma NO!!

MARGARET

burn you.

And God made Eve from Adam's rib 

and Eve was weak

and Eve was weak

and I was weak

And God made Eve to bear the curse

the curse of blood

Our curse of blood

I'm so afraid

Oh Lord, I've seen this power before

the flesh is weak and I implore

Father don't forsake her

Father take her

cleanse and purify her with the fire

and the power

and the glory

forever and ever and ever

Amen

"Open Your Heart" Lyrics from Carrie the Musical (1988 Stratford Production)

MARGARET

Open your heart

Let Jesus in

Open your heart

Let Jesus in

Lord, you have found me

a wanderin' in the darkness

light my way with your true faith

and I'll sing with joy of my new faith

Jesus possess me

sweet saviour be my shepherd

Bless each endeavour

till I finally join you forever

CARRIE

Hello Momma

MARGARET

Carrie come sing with me!

CARRIE

Open your heart

MARGARET

Let Jesus in

CARRIE

Open your heart

MARGARET AND CARRIE

Let Jesus in

Lord I will see choirs of saints and angels singing

Finally free from temptation and the flame of Hell's devastation

Then he will take me and wash me in the river

I will make celebration

MARGARET

In the joy of final

CARRIE

The light of final

BOTH

the fire of final salvation

CARRIE

I love you Momma

MARGARET

I love you Carrie

"Carrie" Lyrics from Carrie the Musical (1988 Stratford Production)

CHRIS
You know what Shelly calls her?
Shelly calls her Scary White

SUE
Chris, please.

CHRIS
I just call her stupid bitch.

SUE
That's enough Chris!

CHRIS
Scary White, do you love it?!
Scary White

STUDENTS
Scary White Scary White (repeated several times)

CARRIE
That's not my name

Doesn't anybody ever get it right? Carrie!
Why don't they remember I am Carrie White? Carrie!
Is that any harder to say than god damn toad and crazy and weirdo and dumb bitch

and doesn't anybody think that I can hear? I hear!
'specially when I got them screaming in my ear! I hear!
When did ev'ry body decide I'm the one who's the flop?
If I had a wish God, I wish they'd stop!
I wish they'd stop.
How I wish they'd stop.

I will not cry
I'm okay
I try so hard to play their way
Why do they find it so hard to say?
Carrie.

Why do they always treat me so bad?
They all know my name. It's Carrie.
I don't know why they all get so mad.
It's always the same.

What's going on, deep in me?
There's someone new where I used to be.
One of these days they're gonna see Carrie.

Sometimes their hatred is out of control
God how they hurt me
Momma says suff'ring is good for the soul
But they hurt me
they hurt me

And if I could I'd bring them all down to their knees
I'd make them sorry forever for teasing Carrie
Carrie, Carrie

I wish I was blessed with someone
who's not like the rest.
I'd close my eyes and suddenly he'd be there
Handsome and wise and prob'ly a prince who could dance on air

And he'd ask me out ev'ry night
I'd say "All right"
After a while he'd ask me to wear his ring
Momma would smile and give us her blessing for ev'rything

And the world would see this is love
And then ev'ryone would be jealous of Carrie
Then all those people who scream night and day
"Poor praying Carrie"
They'd see me with him and they might even say...
"Look it's Carrie!" It's Carrie

And finally I'd hear that word sounding so sweet
thousands of voices forever repeating
Carrie, Carrie, Carrie

I am the sound of distant thunder
the colour of flame
I'm Carrie
I am the song of endless wonder that no one will claim
but some day
Oh my, some day, someone will know my name

"Somebody Should Have Told Her" Lyrics from Carrie the Musical (1988 Stratford Production)

MISS GARDNER

I can't believe she never learned

She's so naive and so afraid

CHRIS

Do you believe her, bleeding like that?

Ha! What a joke.

SUE

Her mother should have told her

CHRIS

And that holy-rolling mother of hers

MISS GARDNER

Somebody should have told her

CHRIS

Always ranting about how everyone is going straight to hell

Except for her and her precious little Carrie.

SUE

My god what have we done here?

I'd never try to hurt her

CHRIS

Remember that time she got down on her knees

praying in the cafeteria.

On her goddamn knees!

MISS GARDNER

The girls went wild

I was shocked the way their faces burned

Chris I'd expect but never Sue

CHRIS

Goddamn praying Carrie

SUE 

She cried like she was broken

CHRIS

And that light bulb breaking

It was a scream

SUE / GARDNER

Somebody should have told her

CHRIS

Squealing like a stuffed pig. Haha

SUE

Chris!

CHRIS

Well, she was.

She was!

SUE

You're my best friend and sometimes I don't understand you

CHRIS

What's to understand?

She's a pig!

SUE

Come on, think of Carrie.

CHRIS

Oh my heart bleeds for her

SUE

Why do you always pick on her?

CHRIS

Because she's there.

I don't know!

SUE

Well maybe she needs help.

CHRIS

Ha, you can say that again.

SUE

Listen Chris,

you've got Billy

I've got Tommy

Carrie has no one

SUE

Sure she does, she's got her mother

"Dream On" Lyrics from Carrie the Musical (1988 Stratford Production)

SUE
Silver lace with a blue gray bodice

CHRIS
Broke his heart and I'm glad I did

MADDY
Almost three in the morning

SHELLY
Don't you hate, when you hate your body?

JAMIE
Treating me like I'm still a kid

CATHY
Touching me without warning

MARY-ANN
Fixing me up cuz he's got this friend

ROSEMARY
Promised me maybe he taking me to the prom

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

JAMIE
Told him "no" but he keeps insisting
I said "no" but he doesn't hear

KELLY AND MADDY
I don't know why he tries

SUE
Tommy told me he loves me

SHELLY
You could die from his eyes

MARY-ANN
I said "yes" but he keeps resisting
So I go "do you want a beer?"

DE VERNEY / NELSON / SQUEEZIE
With your parents at home?

SUE
Tommy told me he loves me

CHRIS
Dream on

CATHY
I was his first

ROSEMARY
He told me that too

CATHY
I've got his ring

ROSEMARY
Well he's taking me to the prom

SHELLY
But he says if I stop eating sweets
I can lose twenty-pounds by June

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

CARRIE
Why'd they laugh when they know I'm trying
Momma says "every body sins"
Saints and angels above me
I would die if they caught me crying
I would love if I had a twin
Someone tell me you love me
Something in pink with orchids to wear
Someone to care and maybe I'd finally belong

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

SUE                                      SHELLY
Silver lace,                            So I told him
with a blue gray bodice                he doesn't deserve

MADDY                                                
Braces suck                                                
but I'm almost done                          me                  

CHRIS / SUE
I got dresses to burn

MARY-ANN / JAMIE / M. NELSON
Why me

KELLY / SHELLY / SQUEEZIE
Billy Nolan is so hot!

ROSEMARY
He's got so much to learn

CHRIS / SUE
So what?

MARY-ANN
Six foot three

MADDY
What a snob

SHELLY / SQUEEZIE
and he's in his forties

JAMIE
He's got his nerve

JAMIE / HELEN
He called me!

DE VERNEY / NELSON / SQUEEZIE
Get a job

KATE
But it's never fun

JAMIE / MARY-ANN / SHELLY
fun
fun

SUE / CHRIS
We were just having fun

SUE
Tommy told me he loves me

NELSON / SQUEEZIE / DE VERNEY
Loves me

SUE / ROSEMARY / KATHY / MADDY
He always says that he's mine

CHRIS / MARY-ANN / JAMIE / SHELLY
You're wasting your time

SUE / KATHY / MADDY / ROSEMARY
Well, he should make up his mind if

SUE / KATHY / MADDY / ROSEMARY / CHRIS / KELLY / DE VERNEY / SQUEEZIE / NELSON
He's taking me to the prom

MARY-ANN / JAMIE / SHELLY
He turned me down but he'll come around

GROUP 2
Dream on

GROUP 1
Dream on

GROUP 2
Dream on

GROUP 1
Dream on

CARRIE
*screams*