I wrote this for a wonderful singer friend of mine at Oberlin. She loves musical theater, and has bugged me for a while about writing her a theatrical song, so finally I came up with this. It's very strongly keyed to F Major, but includes my love of sudden chromatic modulations.
It's my first time writing the lyrics as well as the music, and I don't think they turned out half-bad. The lyrics are based loosely around a discussion that this singer and I had at the end of this past semester. I started with just a premise, and the first three lines, and the rest sort of wrote itself.
Enjoy, and leave many comments, particularly about the music (I'm going to have my librettist revise the lyrics
)!