Original Broadway Cast of Violet, Joshua Henry, Sutton Foster - I saw you writing in that book again… lyrics

I saw you writing in that book again

I write down what I wanna remember

You write down me?

Well, yeah even before I knew you
Playing solitaire on the bus
How you drop cards
When you deal them, like a turtle laying
Eggs plop, plop, plop you know
I never knew a "negro" to talk
To before we don't see
Too many in the mountains you're
Like a foreigner to me

Is that what you see when you look at me?

Well, I see a man, I guess

That's all I am
Violet just like anyone put that in your book

No, I mean a man, like a
Grown-up like my father confident
No nonsense I don't know about the name
Though flick? Where'd you pick that up?

Reform school

No! What'd you do?

Honey, I was born the rest
Took care of it'self

Monty says Johnson could be sending
You two to Vietnam

Mmm hmm 'Course when you join the Army
You know the risks goin' in i always
Make it a point to know
What I'm getting into how much you
Know about this TV preacher?

He works miracles, for a start
What? Don't you believe in God?

I don't believe he's gonna come at
Me through a TV screen

You would if you needed to
Bad enough remember the first
Time you looked at me? Like
You'd seen worse things?
That's what I liked about you
Most people though… I
Don't like mirrors, but I
Stare into them sometimes
To prepare myself for the things people say
Because nobody can hurt my feelings if
They tell me what I already know i
Never could'a left Spruce Pine otherwise

So what do you need with this TV
Preacher? You came this far without him

I'm gonna be to the Preacher
What Goliath was to David
A need so giant I will drive him into action!

Violet, let me tell you something you
Gotta do what you gotta do, but in the
End you do it alone you choose your
Road, and then you walk it
One step at a time