Finale: Children Will Listen (From "Into the Woods")

The slotted spoon CAN catch the potato...
 Every knot was once straight rope.
 The harder to wake, the better to have...
 The greater the good, the harder the blow...
 When going to hide, know how to get there
 And how to get back...
 And eat first...
 The knife that is sharp today may be dull by tomorrow...
 Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...
 Maybe I just wasn't meant to have children--
 Don't say that! Of course you were meant to have children...
 But how can I go about being a father
 With no one to mother my child?
 Just calm the child
 Yes, calm the child
 Look, tell him the story of how it all happened
 Be father and mother, you'll know what to do
 Alone...
 Sometimes people leave you
 Halfway through the wood
 Do not let it grieve you
 No one leaves for good
 You are not alone
 No one is alone
 Hold him to the light now
 Let him see the glow
 Things will be all right now
 Tell him what you know...
 Shhh. Once upon a time... in a far-off kingdom...
 lived a young maiden... a sad young lad.
 .and a childless baker... with his wife
 Careful the things you say
 Children will listen
 Careful the things you do
 Children will see
 And learn
 Children may not obey
 But children will listen
 Children will look to you
 For which way to turn
 To learn what to be
 Careful before you say
 "Listen to me."
 Children will listen
 Careful the wish you make
 Wishes are children
 Careful the path they take
 Wishes come true
 Not free
 Careful the spell you cast
 Not just on children
 Sometimes the spell may last
 Past what you can see
 And turn against you...
 Careful the tale you tell
 That is the spell
 Children will listen...
 Though it's fearful
 Though it's deep, though it's dark
 And though you may lose the path
 Though you may encounter wolves
 You can't just act
 You have to listen
 You can't just act
 You have to think
 Though it's dark
 There are always wolves
 There are always spells
 There are always beans
 Or a giant dwells there
 So into the woods you go again
 You have to every now and then
 Into the woods, no telling when
 Be ready for the journey
 Into the woods, but not too fast
 Or what you wish, you lose at last
 Into the woods, but mind the past
 Into the woods, but mind the future
 Into the woods, but not to stray
 Or tempt the wolf, or steal from the giant--
 The way is dark
 The light is dim
 But now there's you, me, her, and him
 The chances look small
 The choices look grim
 But everything you learn there
 Will help when you return there
 The light is getting dimmer-
 I think I see a glimmer--
 Into the woods--you have to grope
 But that's the way you learn to cope
 Into the woods to find there's hope
 Of getting through the journey
 Into the woods, each time you go
 There's more to learn of what you know
 Into the woods, but not too slow--
 Into the woods, it's nearing midnight--
 Into the woods to mind the wolf
 To heed the witch, to honor the giant
 To mind
 To heed
 To find
 To think
 To teach
 To join
 To go to the Festival!
 Into the woods
 Into the woods
 Into the woods
 Then out of the woods--
 And happy ever after!
 I wish...