The chimney-sweeper
when my mother died i was very young,
and my father sold me while yet my tongue
could scarcely cry ‘weep! weep! weep! weep! '
so your chimneys i sweep, and in soot i sleep
what is the narrator expressing by these lines

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.

explanation:

dear evan hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by benj pasek and justin paul, and book by steven levenson.

the musical opened on broadway at the music box theatre in december 2016, after its world premiere at the arena stage in washington, d.c., in july 2015 and an off-broadway production at second stage theatre from march to may 2016.

at the 71st tony awards, it was nominated for nine awards, winning six, including best musical, best score, best actor in a musical for ben platt, and best featured actress in a musical for rachel bay jones.

one context clue that me find the meaning of luxuriance was that the base word of luxuriance is luxury, so i think that luxuriance means something that is luxury, or something luxurious.