Stephen Schwartz
Edge of a Knife
[David, spoken]
Mama, I miss Papa

[Rebecca, spoken]
I know
[sung]
Sha sha, sha sha, Duvedal
One more day is past, love
Through so much, we've come so far
Acting braver than we are
Time to sleep, at last, love

Sleep, David
We're here, David
Now it belongs to you
To you

How can I promise him we'll be fine
When I just don't know?
How, when the moment the sun will shine
Who knows where we'll go?

How do I show him a smile
When I'm shaky and scared myself?
Ready for anything
While I feel so unprepared myself
Who knows what trouble
Tomorrow is bringing our way?
As we greet one morе day of a life
On the edgе of a knife

This life on the edge of a knife

[spoken]
Nathan, if only you were with us

[sung]
Oh, my husband
Hear this promise, I vow
Though I leave your ghost behind us back there
This I swear to you and all who
Could not make this journey

We're alive here
Me and David
And we'll survive here
For now, that's all I know
Though

Sometimes it feels like the world would cheer
If we pined away
It may seem hopeless to persevere
Still we'll find a way
What woes the day will bequeath us
We'll face as we have before
Though the ground's shifting beneath us
We'll always take one more step more

And, if tomorrow
We must climb the rockiest hill
Well then, climb it we will
In this life
On the edge of a knife

On the edge of a knife
In the eye of a storm
On the brink of a precipice
Nathan

David, I promise this
We will