Miss Saigon - Why God Why?

Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Performed by Simon Bowman
Copyright: (C) 1988 Universal Classics Group

...Why God, why today?
I'm all through here on my way
There's nothing left here that I'll miss
Why send me now a night like this?

Why God, why this face?
Why such beauty in this place?
I liked my memories as they were
But now I'll leave remembering her, just her...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Miss Saigon
• Why God Why?
• Simon Bowman
• The Original London Cast
• The fall of Saigon
• Vietnam War
• antiwar protests
• Tet Offensive 1968
• Paris Agreement 1973

[david2k6murphy]

they deserved it, dont mess with the west BOOM!!!!!!!

[davenp07]

@david2k6murphy

"they" happened to be ally to the US during the Vietnam War instead of "mess" with the West or otherwise... Need a crash course in world history?

[lesmiserables08]

I'm thinking of seeing this at a Philadelphia theater next year and it seems like it will be an amazing show. I LOVE this song so i'm hoping i'll also like the play. I just can't stop listening to this.

[davenp07]

I hope you will enjoy the show. There's nothing like the live experience "seeing" and hearing those songs on stage. I love listening to them again and again, which brings back a lot of bitter sweet memory...

[broadwayjedi]

his voice is not the best but his is the only version where i can literally feel the emotion....on that last "her!" i cry. every time. it's so powerful. this song is so incredibly sad just because you know what's going to happen in the end. he loves her, but knows it won't work...and that's the saddest feeling of all. thanks for posting!

[davenp07]

Though it didn't work out but they both tried their best, well at least she did try her best by wating and enduring, as if life without him was not difficult enough. I tend to think that she died happy at the end (despite a tragic death), contented in her thought that all could be done have been done. For him, not as much...

[mind138rot]

I saw this on Broadway during my senior year of high school. That was back in 1996. These songs still send chills up my spine. I think they've stood the test of time..

[alisunchyme]

I saw this show when it first opened and it it was so powerful with some great songs. Probably one of the best shows i have ever seen and definitely the most tears shed....

[musictillthendoftime]

oh God this is beautiful

[CherryYen2810]

Oh God this is epic!

[NovaScotiaChick]

Most memorable show I've ever seen. London UK, 1995.

Tempus Fugit.

[MrDrakeponder]

@david2k6murphy dick.

[WasteTime4Passwords]

@lesmiserables08 So did the "Engineer" steal most of the applause?? He did when I saw this in 1999, in Seattle.

[ryaldrich]

hhhhh



[MrDrakeponder]

this is what i was looking for.......this is for the memory of my mother... rip.... i grew up listening to the original cast and i love my mother for it....

[ShaneConnorRice]

really love this song :) have to sing it for my vocal lessons in college tommorow :) hopefully i can watch this live