sing out

An invisible force silences her, growing more violent as struggles; each she tries to sing out the lyric “I won’t mention the war” the offending word is muffled by feedback until she’s knocked off her feet.

Characters in a musical can sing out their feelings because straightforward dialogue falls short of adequate self-expression, or break into song as a completely normal mode of communication in their world.

"It certainly emboldened me to sing out a little more," added Hedley Rokos, who was 16 at the time of the recording.

Heavily pregnant, she is given little more to say than a messiah’s mom’s version of “Sing out, Louise” and whatever her still nonviable fetus tells her to.

One mouse will sing out a longing cry, and another will respond with a tune of its own.