Carmen Cusack sings "How?" from Flying Over Sunset

Music by Tom Kitt
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Book by James Lapine
John Boswell on piano
Joel Gottschalk on bass
December 3 2020 - The Space LV

Lyrics:
how do you keep on going on your own?
how do you lose your flesh and blood and carry on alone?
I thought we’d meet in heaven
is heaven even there?
or is it only stars and empty air?
hello?
there must be something more - something more
isn’t there?
isn’t there?
isn’t there?
how do get through life bereft of faith?
after you’ve prayed the seventh day
who listens on the eighth?
does prayer dissolve in ether
and vanish in the void?
how do you bear your burdens with belief itself destroyed
how? how?
tell me how
how to reclaim the person you once were
what’s the point of all the fame and power?
why do I feel unsatisfied with all that I’ve accomplished?
so empty inside
unfinished
goddammit
I took a magic drug
to show me how to grow
150 micrograms
enough not enough not nearly enough NOOOOO
how do you save a marriage without love?
physical love
the human touch I get so little of
I was so blind self-centered
for somebody so smart
succeeding without hearing my own heart
I pushed their love aside
til they died
I live on
all alone
terrified
and what now?
persevere?
tell me how?