Sam Gravitte - 'On the Steps of the Palace' (Pronoun Showdown)

Pronoun Showdown is a concert series that explores what happens when you change the pronouns in well-known songs — perspective changes, tone changes, character changes and more!

PRONOUN SHOWDOWN
October 19, 2021 - Feinstein’s/54 Below

Lyric Changes by Kimberly Jenna Simon, Abby DePhillips
Musical Direction by Benjamin Rauhala
Produced and Conceived by Abby DePhillips & Kimberly Jenna Simon

“On the Steps of the Palace” - Into the Woods (Stephen Sondheim)

[kingarthurslance]

“How can you know who you are until you know what I want?”
omg

[mitch]

I’m a very smart prince
I’m a prince who prepares
Knowing this time you’d run from me
I spread pitch on the stairs
You were caught unaware
See it means, that I care
This is simple not malice
Better stop to take stock while your standing there stuck to the steps of my palace
Alright what do you want
Have to make a decision
Why not stay and get caught you should give it a thought, what would be my response
And just what if I know who you are and I’ll swear that your just what I think that I want
Because you probably are
What a prince would incision
But then how can you know who you are till you know what I want which you don’t
So then which do you pick
When your safe out of sight by yourself but where everything’s wrong
Or where everything’s right and who cares if your never belong
But whichever you pick do it quick because your starting to stick to the steps of my palace
It’s your first big decision
The choice is so easy to make
To arrive at a ball, Is exciting and all
Once your here won’t be scary
It’s so fun to deceive
When you won’t want to leave
You don’t have to be wary
There’s a lot that’s at stake
And you’ve stalled long enough cause your still standing stuck in the stuff on the steps
Please don’t wrong along home
And avoid the collision
Or at home they don’t care your not better off there
When there’s nothing to choose
So there’s nothing to lose
Please don’t pry up your shoes
Damn you did think it through
I now get to decide
You know what your decision is
Which is not to decide
You just leave me a clue
And you left me…. A shoe
Just to see what I’d do
Now it’s me and not you
Who is stuck with a shoe
In a stew… in the goo
And I learned something too
That this plan kind of blew
On the steps of MY PALACE

[mctheplaywright]

He has the clearest tone ever, holy shitttt

[dsteamer]

Very, very clever - I think Sondheim would approve