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I Can't Stay
Already Home, An Original Musical

Isabella Very and Jackson Machesky

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Clara: Hello? Yes
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Marie

Marie: A lone - ly car,

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Clara: My name is Clara.

Clara Campbell.
Marie

driv-ing through the night. A care-less girl who did-n't see the light.

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Marie

Time's stopped. There's no - thing I can feel.

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Clara: Yes? Marie? She's my sister.

Marie

Bright lights, and now my fate is sealed.

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Marie

It flashed be - fore my eyes, this

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Marie

life that had been mine. Days u-pon days of my sis - ter and me, pass-ing

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Clara: No, we don't have any other family members.

Marie

notes, send-ing texts qui - et - ly. I

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Marie

wish that I could stay just a lit - tle long - er. I

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Josh: Are
you okay?

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wish that I could stay, I wish that I was strong er. But I'm not.

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Marie

There's no-thing I can do but lay here. I don't think I

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can move. And she's there liv - ing her own

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Marie

life, And un - be - knownst to her, I'm twist-ing my own

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knife. And it flashed be - fore my eyes, this

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Marie

life that had been mine. Days u-pon days of my sis - ter and me ad - vis -

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Josh: Clara, what's going on?

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ing and guid-ing care-ful - ly. I

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Marie

wish I was - n't go - ing a - way leav - ing her for - e - ver. I

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Marie

wish that I could turn and say that I'd been e - ven strong - er. And it

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Marie

flashed be - fore my eyes, this

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life that had been mine. Days u-pon days spent as time slipped a - way and for

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all of that, I can't stay! She knows. I real-ly hope she knows. I'll
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be here for all the highs and lows. And e-ven though I'm gone, I'll stay look-ing

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Marie

on. And e - ven though I'm gone, her life will go

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l.h

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Josh: Clara, say something

... Hello? What? Oh my God.
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almost violently emotional

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I wish that I could stay, and help her make her

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way. Just a lit - tle

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Marie

long - er, make her e - ven

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Marie

strong - er. I don't want

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Marie

to go and leave her

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Marie

all a - lone but all that

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Marie

I can hope is that she

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Marie

knows that I loved

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her. rit.

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