# A solo saxaphone **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 10, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996 "2000-02-10T19:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/1 "2000-02-11T06:52:00Z")
There’s a song, and I know some of the lyrics, but I have no clue who sings it or what the title is or what CD its on. Can any of the Teeming Millions help? A song Played on a solo saxaphone Its telling me, to hold you tight And dance Like its the last night Of the world ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/2 "2000-02-11T06:55:00Z")
It’s from the musical _Miss Saigon_, and it’s called “The Last Night of the World”. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/3 "2000-02-10T19:00:00Z")
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**[The Last Night of the World](http://moonlight.dreamhost.com/lamerc/ds/song8r-lnotw.html)** From the musical “Miss Saigon” In a place that won’t let us feel, In a life where nothing seems real, I have found you, I have found you. In a world that’s moving too fast, In a world where nothing can last, I will hold you, I will hold you. Our lives will change when tomorrow comes. Tonight our hearts drown the distant drums. And we’ll have music all right, Tearing the night… A song, played on a solo saxophone– A crazy sound, A lonely sound, A cry that tells us love goes on and on. Played on a solo saxophone– It’s telling me to hold you tight And dance like it’s the last night of the world. Dreams were all I ever knew. Dreams you won’t need when I’m through. Anywhere we may be I will sing with you… A song, played on a solo saxophone– So stay with me, and hold me tight, And dance like it’s the last night of the world. \ \ \

**Tris** \ Not all those who wander are lost. –J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings ---

**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/4 "2000-02-10T19:27:00Z")
Well, everyone’s ahead of me with the answer. I can only add that it’s probably the show’s most hauntingly beautiful song, a duet between Kim, a Vietnamese bar girl, and Chris, a soldier who wanted nothing more than to leave all his memories of the wretched country behind. Kim is thrown at him by The Engineer, a pimp/bar manager, for her debut as a bar girl. At first he’s uncaring, but after their night together, Chris is transformed with true feeling for Kim… and then fate intervenes and they’re torn apart. Lea Salonga played Kim when I first saw the show, and she was amazing. There’s a point at the beginning when all the bar girl srut out, doing their lascivious best to get the GIs to “vote” for them as “Miss Saigon”… and then out comes Kim, trying to hold on to her dignity… and she has one sung line… “I have a heart like the sea… a million dreams are in me…” Just the sound and look of her causes Chris, transfixed, to blurt out to his friend, “Good Jesus, John, who is she?” Me, too. 🙂 - Rick ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/5 "2000-02-10T20:15:00Z")
_The Cong is tightening the noose Is it a week or a day, or an hour we’ve got Tonight may be our last shot Let’s go put it to use!_ That bar scene is the GREATEST! * * * Sucks to your assmar. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/6 "2000-02-10T22:57:00Z")
The bar scene is amazing, yes… but there are two scenes in that show that, if I weren’t such a tough manly bastard, I might have to admit to a small tear in the corner of my eye every single time I see them. They’re both in Act II. The first is during Kim’s flashback, when we the audience finally get to see what the hell happened to them… when Kim is outside the embassy caught in the throng of people and Chris is on the phone inside desperately trying to call her… the separated duet “Please”: Please Kim hear the phone I can’t get there please be home ``` Please Chris no one sees I am lost here find me please ``` _(and then they both sing)_ Please, get me through, I don’t care how Don’t take my love away, not now… Oh, my gosh. The second scene is at the end. 'Nuff said. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/7 "2000-02-11T00:05:00Z")
Wow, you guys are good with Broadway!! OK, I have one more that I would love to know what show its from - I am pretty sure it is Broadway. Mother isn’t here now Who knows what she’d say Things are not so clear now Seems you’ve lost your way But you are not alone No one is alone I can hum it if that would help! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-solo-saxaphone/6996/8 "2000-02-11T02:30:00Z")
“No One Is Alone” from Stephen Sondheim’s _Into The Woods_. It opened in 1986 on Broadway, with Bernadette Peters as The Witch. Amazing show. 🙂 - Rick