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Oh tell me where- |
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Where is it written what it is I'm meant to be |
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That I can't dare |
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To have the chance to pick the fruit of ev'ry tree |
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Or have my share |
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Of ev'ry sweet-imagined possibility? |
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[Speaking]Those are questions that women have been asking for Centuries, |
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and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking them today! |
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I think that's what attracted me to YENTL, |
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and why I had felt I had to make the film...YENTL, |
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as some of you know, |
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is the story of a girl in Eastern Europe at the turn of the Century, |
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when the world of study belonged only to men. |
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But Yentl's father, recognizing her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly. |
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And after his death, in order to continue her studies, she had had no choice, |
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but go out into the world disguised as a man... |
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PAPA, CAN YOU HEAR ME? |
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Papa, can you hear me? |
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Papa, can you see me? |
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Papa, can you find me in the night? |
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Papa, are you near me? |
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Papa, can you hear me? |
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Papa, can you help me not be frightened? |
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Looking at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes |
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Which ones are yours? |
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Where are you now that yesterday |
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Has waved goodbye and closed its door? |
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The night is so much darker, |
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The wind is so much colder |
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The world I see is so much bigger |
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Now that I'm alone |
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Papa, please forgive me |
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Try to understand me |
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Papa, don't you know I had no choice? |
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Can you hear me praying, |
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Anything I'm saying, |
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Even though the night is filled with voices? |
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I remember ev'rything you taught me |
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Ev'ry book I've ever read |
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Can all the words in all the books |
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Help me to face what lies ahead? |
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The trees are so much taller |
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And I feel so much smaller |
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The moon is twice as lonely |
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And the stars are half as bright |
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Papa, how I love you |
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Papa, how I need you |
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Papa, how I miss you |
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Kissing me goodnight... |
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[Speaking] |
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To go on with the story, em, |
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Yentl then meets a boy whom she falls in love with; |
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but it turns out he's already in love with another girl, |
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but because of circumstances I can't go into now, |
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they're prevented from getting married. |
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And to make a long story short, he asks Yentl, who, of course, |
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he thinks is a boy to marry the girl, |
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so he can still see her - not Yentl, the other girl! |
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So, the girl and the girl get married, |
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and if you want to see how Yentl got away with the wedding night, |
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you'll have to rent the video! |
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It's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, it's very nineties! |
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Anyway, mmm, one night he comes over to the house to study. |
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But it's clear that the only thing he really wants to study is her... |
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Not Yentl...Her wife, her...Get it? His eyes never leave her face... |
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WILL SOMEONE EVER LOOK AT ME THAT WAY? |
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See the way they gaze at her, |
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Like slaves they follow ev'ywhere she goes. |
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Do my eyes forget themselves |
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And do I ever look at him |
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And smile in such a way |
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That what I'm feeling shows? |
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Sometimes I have the feeling ev'rybody knows |
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And even though it's crazy, |
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Still I can't help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day |
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When by some miracle of miracles, |
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He'll turn around and look at me |
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That way... |
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A PIECE OF SKY |
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Oh tell me where? |
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Where is the someone who will turn and look at me? |
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And want to share |
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My ev'ry sweet-imagined possibility? |
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The more I live - the more I learn. |
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The more I learn - the more I realize |
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The less I know. |
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Each step I take - |
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(Papa, I've a voice now!)Each page I turn - |
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(Papa, I've a choice now!)Each mile I travel only means |
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The more I have to go. |
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What's wrong with wanting more? |
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If you can fly - then soar! |
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With all there is - why settle for |
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just a piece of sky? |
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Papa, I can hear you... |
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Papa, I can see you... |
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Papa, I can feel you... |
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Papa, watch me fly! |
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Papa, watch me fly! |
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[Speaking]Thank you! I'm glad you liked that! |
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! |
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Oh, that's great! Thank you! |
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This current administration has been beset by many problems. |
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But, it's had many accomplishments, |
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a fact that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? |
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I guess it is easier to criticize than to praise! |
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So, I'd like to sing this song tonight in celebration of every thing |
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that's positive and possible in this great country of ours and around the world. |