Waiting in the Wings

Waiting In the Wings
Composer	Alan Menken
Lyrics	Glenn Slater
Performers	Cassandra (Eden Espinosa)
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Waiting In the Wings is a song sung by Cassandra in the Season 2 episode, "Rapunzel and the Great Tree".

Later, it is revealed that she had always sung this song as a girl, expressing her loneliness at keeping the cottage where she and her late mother lived until she was taken in by the loving Captain of the Royal Guard some years ago.

Therefore a reprise of it is sung both by the teenage Cassandra and her toddler self.

Lyrics

Guess we all are born with parts to play
Some of us are stars, and some are just in the way
I know I was meant for glory
But that's never what my story brings
And yet I keep on waiting

When you have the passion and the drive
You expect your moment center stage to arrive
I show up with heart a-blazing
Ready to achieve amazing things
But I'm left waiting in the wings

I hear my cue
And yet I'm kept there waiting
Know what to do
And still I stand there waiting
It's always someone else who sings
While I'm left waiting in the wings

And so I keep on keepin' on
My chances come and then I blink and they're gone
Always overlooked unfairly
While pretending that it barely stings
But it stings, yes it stings
And

I'll shed no tears
I'll only keep on waiting
If no one cheers
Well, I can keep on waiting
Who cares how loud the silence rings
You'll find me waiting in the wings

Reprise

Toddler Cassandra

Guess by now I oughta know my place

Do your humble duty with a smile on your face

Mother knows how much I love her

But she's always doing other things

So I'll keep waiting in the wings

Cassandra

I craved so much

And yet I kept on waiting

One glace, one touch

And I just kept one waiting

Both

And when it came

It came with strings

Cassandra

So I kept waiting in the wings

Trivia

• It is later revealed to have been a song for Cassandra's very lovely girlhood as a four-year-old toddler, that the tune was played on her favorite music box