David Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyr… Read Full Bio ↴David Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010).
An accomplished musician, David Yazbek has released four rock albums to date which highlight his unique perspective and wry sense of humor. He has also written many songs and background music for children's television shows, especially those produced for Disney's cable television channel. He also co-wrote the theme song to the Emmy award winning PBS-TV series Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego? with songwriter Sean Altman, a high school friend who led the show's featured vocal group Rockapella.
Yazbek has produced tracks for the band XTC, and its lead singer Andy Partridge has collaborated on Yazbek's solo albums. He also has written for or produced recordings by Spacehog, Tito Puente, The Persuasions, Queen, and Sarah Saturday. XTC also contributed a track to the "Carmen Sandiego" soundtrack album, which Yazbek produced.
In 2000, Broadway director Jack O'Brien approached composer-lyricist Adam Guettel to write the music and lyrics for a musical based on the hit movie The Full Monty. Guettel declined, but recommended Yazbek, with whom he had played in a band. Yazbek took the job, collaborating with librettist Terrence McNally. The show was a success, although it was overshadowed that year by Mel Brooks' musical The Producers. The Full Monty ran for two years before closing, and for his work Yazbek was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. In 2002 he was a contributing lyricist for the musical Bombay Dreams.
Yazbek wrote the music and lyrics to the musical adaptation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which opened on Broadway in 2005, featuring John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Rene Scott, Joanna Gleason, and Gregory Jbara. Yazbek was again nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Original Score, and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics.
An accomplished musician, David Yazbek has released four rock albums to date which highlight his unique perspective and wry sense of humor. He has also written many songs and background music for children's television shows, especially those produced for Disney's cable television channel. He also co-wrote the theme song to the Emmy award winning PBS-TV series Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego? with songwriter Sean Altman, a high school friend who led the show's featured vocal group Rockapella.
Yazbek has produced tracks for the band XTC, and its lead singer Andy Partridge has collaborated on Yazbek's solo albums. He also has written for or produced recordings by Spacehog, Tito Puente, The Persuasions, Queen, and Sarah Saturday. XTC also contributed a track to the "Carmen Sandiego" soundtrack album, which Yazbek produced.
In 2000, Broadway director Jack O'Brien approached composer-lyricist Adam Guettel to write the music and lyrics for a musical based on the hit movie The Full Monty. Guettel declined, but recommended Yazbek, with whom he had played in a band. Yazbek took the job, collaborating with librettist Terrence McNally. The show was a success, although it was overshadowed that year by Mel Brooks' musical The Producers. The Full Monty ran for two years before closing, and for his work Yazbek was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. In 2002 he was a contributing lyricist for the musical Bombay Dreams.
Yazbek wrote the music and lyrics to the musical adaptation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which opened on Broadway in 2005, featuring John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Rene Scott, Joanna Gleason, and Gregory Jbara. Yazbek was again nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Original Score, and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics.
The Reckoning
David Yazbek Lyrics
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30 Seconds to Mars The enemy arrives Escape into the night Everybody run now …
Andrew Peterson I can see the storm descending on the hill tonight Tall…
Antiks We will no longer allow the government to oppress disabled…
Astral Chaos Ignorance deep in your soul Lashing out You know you're hat…
Bonecarver Sailing a steady course Through the storm Land in sight! You…
Born Through Fire The reckoning I start to hold my breath Because I believe I…
Breathing Theory Wake up, we're losing precious life but I decide what will…
Comes With The Fall have a lies always rise its like a motor everything we…
Dee Snider THE RECKONING IT'S ALL FOR NOTHING WHAT DID YOU HOPE TO DO?…
Dom Fera One October just came around Just to shake the sky and…
Dysrider See through your mirror of inner lies Don't look away Define…
Emil Bulls This is the reckoning This is the reckoning Welcome to t…
Endure the Affliction Dreaming, daybreak, awoken, frozen By the sound of my hearta…
F5 I used to suffer and hate To feel complete... Life comes a…
Fivefold Breaking into silence again and every word unsaid cuts me…
Franky Perez & the Truth Spin the wheel of misfortune, though these wounds still hurt…
Godhead Come to me Kill for me Worship me Follow everything I do As …
Guillaume and Bertrande What's next, I'm facing a wasteland c princess right out…
Halestorm Cross my heart, broke your promise, told me lies Why did…
Hard Point We counted everything The days, the coins, the bills You’d b…
Iced Earth Destiny's called us It's the reckoning This time it's for bl…
Infinite Illusion Breathe Take the end of my own Take the end of my…
Jacoby Shaddix As cold as stone, they march in darkness Enslaving the young…
Jay Denton The oceans are rising While the mountains fall There's no ro…
Kasey Anderson A man rises in the morning and looks out on…
Konkhra [Kontos/Lundemark] Reckoning Reckoning Reckoning... …
Laurenne THE RECKONING Take a look at yourself What have you become?…
Levi Kreis I've turned the key to Pandora's box And I'll never be…
Living Sacrifice Infamy – you lost your way again This was the day,…
mothica There once was a girl who trusted everyone she met 'Til…
Nathan Gray “Oh the system might have got you, but it won’t…
NEEDTOBREATHE Goin' to California Suitcase in my hands Never run away a bo…
Neochrome Countdown to the day that will be the last for…
Of Wrath And Ruin The path we chose is broken Betrayed the lives forsaken Hold…
Only Zuul Don't wake me The other escapes me The champion of fate Oh g…
Our Time Down Here I long to be your eyes and ears, To see…
Palisades I've been staring at my reflection I've lost all perception…
PATH TO TRUTH Spin the wheel of misfortune, though these wounds still hurt…
Pillar Ride I'm an outlaw taking chances When there's nothing le…
R.A. Images of suffering keep running through my mind Of all the…
Ray Childish Got my thoughts all in a tangle I'm so angry, kleiner…
Rise & Resist Full of hatred, you are my friend no longer You …
Shaddix As cold as stone, they march in darkness Enslaving the young…
Shannon Curtis I know what I must do I felt the sound ring…
Sleeping Prophet Your twisted ways must end My consciousness will bend Nega…
Sparzanza The reckoning, is to begin. I feel alive, gonna pay…
Spineshank Cut! (Cut) Cut! (Cut) Cut, pain divides Your descent F…
Starblind Trying to withstand it all moving noward Undesired decretes …
Steve Tilston Here’s to all the grand children, Yet to be born great…
The Deadbeat Cousins Father, can you hear me I'm calling out to you I'm bleeding…
The Fall I phoned you up from Dallas But your heart was still…
The Reality of Yourself He sent a letter to the county line saying Give me…
This Is Hell I've risked life and death I've risked life and death, and…
UNSECRET Feat. Matthew Perryman Jones Light wonders through endless shadows Awake inside a dream w…
Within Temptation As cold as stone, they march in darkness Enslaving the young…
We have lyrics for these tracks by David Yazbek:
Give Them What They Want LAWRENCE Left hand, side pocket Right arm, akimbo and relaxe…
Great Big Stuff FREDDY I thought I'd seen it all, I thought I knew the…
Here I Am Would ya look at that coffered Ceiling, Look at that chandel…
Son of Great Big Stuff I win, I win, I win, I win, I win I…
That Lucky Old Sun Up in the mornin' out on the job, Work like…
What Was a Woman to Do Last night I met a man beneath a pale And haunted…
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