[CATHERINE]
My parents were immigrants
New to these shores
When they were barely eighteen.

They struggled and sacrificed,
pounded on doors,
to carve out the life they'd foreseen.

They fashioned that life out of hope and thin air.
A life for the daughter they someday would share.

I am that daughter,
Eternally grateful for all that they gave up for me.

[MIKE]
I belong to a long line of men.
All electricians by trade.

My grandfather first. My father then.
So proud of the business they made.

A mantle is claimed. A torch will be passed.
Making a family legacy last.

So here I stand with my future ordained
and a life that is planned out for me.
[CATHERINE & MIKE]
Oh oh oh oh,
Great expectations. Great expectations.
Oh oh oh oh oh.
Great expectations of me.

[ALL BUT CATHERINE & MIKE]
Ha oom.
Ha oom.
Ha oom.

[CATHERINE]
Through all of their hardships
And ev'ry lean year, - [MIKE]
My parents could see their reward. - I have a road
That's laid out for me.
Their daughter's degree, - Won for me.
And their daughter's career, - No struggle I see.
And ev'rything that can afford.

[CATHERINE & MIKE]
The trouble for me is the life that they flaunt
Is light years away from the life that I want.

So I plant a flag because I need
A piece of the world I can claim for myself.
[ALL]
Oh oh oh oh,
Great expectations. Great expectations.
Oh oh oh oh oh
Great expectations of me.

[GROUP 1]
I'm my own person with hopes and desires,
A future that I engineer.

[GROUP 2]
I have a passion that yearns and aspires.
A vision so focused and clear.

[CAROLINE]
I know my path may be humble
With bruises and aches.

[ADAM]
And doubtless I'll stumble
And make my mistakes.

[RYAN]
But it's time I made choices.
It's time that I screamed-
[ALL]
Don't want the dream I was given.

[CATHERINE & MIKE]
I want the dream that I dreamed.

[ALL]
Oh oh oh oh,
Great expectations. Great expectations.
Oh oh oh oh,
Great expectations. Great expectations.
Oh oh oh oh oh.
Great expectations of me.

[INDIVIDUAL SOLOS & GROUPS]
Great expectations.
Great expectations.
Great expectations.

[ALL]
Great expectations of me.

[INDIVIDUAL SOLOS & GROUPS]
Great expectations.
Great expectations.
Great expectations.

[ALL]
Great expectations of me.