Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Songtext
von Kristen Anderson‐Lopez & Robert Lopez

You want to build a Snowman
It′s really the same song as, as in the movie
But in a way it's changed a lot
Because in the movies, um, you can do a montage
Montage is a series of scenes cut to show a long period of time
And that′s what the song really is
But on stage you can't really do montage
It doesn't translate as well


So we had to make the, uh, the sections a little bit longer
And em, we have the little girls, instead of showing young Anna
Then teenage Anna, then, um, adult, Anna
We really only have young Anna for the first two verses
And then we (and then we)
Fast-forward ten years
Then the parents die, but the parents die on stage
They now die when they are children

And the girls, um, there is a line that helps you realize
Why we have to wait several years until Elsa is coroneted
But then we get, we see grown up Anna
We had to change those lyrics to the night before the coronation
Rather than what you get in the movie
The final lyrics are the day of their parents′ funeral
Um, so that was one change
The original impulse for this song was always

Painting the picture of loneliness, of division in the childhood
What it feels like to be alone and left out
So we wanted to write a song that captured a lifetime of that
And a lifetime of reaching out and saying, somebody come and play