A performer delivers a spoken-sung monologue during rehearsal, weaving rhetorical questions about justice, identity, and faith. References to doctors, a character named Kai, and superheroes like Superboy mix with repeated invocations of "Jesus saves," exploring the cost of love and the resolve to keep moving forward.
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And you know that it's justice and not a way, and you play, and you play. Who's crazy? The one who can't cope? Or maybe the one who'll still hope? The one who sees doctors? The one who just waits in the car? And Kai was a wild 25. I am the Great I Am. Real love, it's just not so. Why is it you still believe? Do you dream or do you believe? You've got to let him go. Superboy, invincible God, Son of Steel and God of Thunder. He's the hero of the whole world. Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Jesus saves! Jesus saves! I am the one who cried. I am the one who watched my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am the one who loves you. I try to tell you that. Yet I can't always know who I am. It's the price we pay to feel. The price of love is cost, but still we pay. We love anyway. When the night is finally gone and we see the work is done, Wonder how long their force will long supply. This is what we will be, the light within the night. Let it shine, shine, shine. Day after day. Find a will to find your way. Don't look back, don't look back.