Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods — Back to the Palace

[CINDERELLA] When you're off in a palace Where there's no one who knows you, you're whoever you say When you're far from the malice And the envy of those you see day after day Far far away And it gleams, and it glitz And you're scared and excited And you dance with a prince And you haven't even been invited And just when it's all as you've dreamed You look up and it's real And the glare, and the crowd Like you're being swallowed So you run to the woods Where you cannot be followed You run till you're back Where you're safe Where you'll never belong... Home... But you save what you wish What you'd like is to live in between Still there's more to be seen To be tried, to decide... Was mother right or wrong? So it's back to the palace To find out what you're feeling, and again he is there And you dance, and they stare Is it envy or malice Or content they're concealing? And again there's the glare And you run unaware That he's played you a trick Smearing pitch so you'll stick to the ground You'll be found! Now to free yourself quick Or you're bound to be caught Then it's when you're unstuck That you're struck with a thought: He must want you a lot If he knew who you were, he might not Only one thing to do Leave a clue Say a shoe There's something you know now you never knew...