This song come right after John Utterson has found out that Edward Hyde is inhabiting the same body as Henry Jekyll. Jekyll is now trying to get back to what he had originally started, which was trying to get rid of evil in the world and split good from evil.
[Jekyll]
Somehow, I have to get back to the place
Where my journey started
Find the course I charted when I first departed
Somehow, I have to hang on to the vision that
First inspired me
To the hope that fired me
When the world admired me
I'll find my way back
To the higher ground
And see the view I saw before
I'll search the world
Until the answer is found
Turn my despair around
Forevermore
Somehow, I have to rebuild all the dreams that
The winds have scattered
From what fate has shattered
I'll retrieve what mattered
Somehow, I have to go on 'til
The evil has been defeated
'Til my work's completed
I will not be cheated
God!
You must help me carry on
When it seems all hope has gone
I have got to
Carry on!
The Way Back was written by Frank Wildhorn.
The Way Back was produced by Frank Wildhorn & Karl Richardson.
Frank Wildhorn released The Way Back on Tue Jul 15 1997.