Sunday, November 14, 2004

More from Stephen Schwartz's "Wicked" --

This is what happens when you listen to one CD over and over and over --

I'M NOT THAT GIRL

ELPHABA:
Hands touch, eyes meet
Sudden silence, sudden Heat
Hearts leap in a giddy world
He could be that boy
But I'm not that girl

Don't dream too far
Don't lose sight of who you are
Don't remember that rush of joy
He could be that boy
I'm Not That Girl

Every so often we long to steal
To the land of 'What-Might-Have-Been'
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in...


Blithe smile, lithe limb
She who's winsome, she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
That's the Girl he chose
And heaven knows
I'm Not That Girl

Don't wish, don't start
Wishing only wounds the heart
I wasn't born for the rose and pearl
There's a Girl I know
He loves her so
I'm Not That Girl

* * *

FOR GOOD

GLINDA:
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives
For a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are lead to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return
Well I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you


Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Half way through the wood
Who can say if I've changed for the better
But because I knew youI have been changed for good

ELPHABA:
It well may be that we will never meet again
In this lifetime, so let me say before we part
So much of me is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend

Like a ship flung from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a sky-bird
In the distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you

GLINDA:
Because I knew you

GLINDA & ELPHABAI:
I have been changed for good

ELPHABA:
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for

GLINDA:
But then I guess we know there's blame to share

GLINDA & ELPHABA:
And none of it seems to matter anymore

GLINDA:
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Half way through the wood

ELPHABA:
Like a ship flung from it's mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a sky-bird
In the distant wood

GLINDA & ELPHABA:
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
I do believe I have been changed for the better

GLINDA:
And because I knew you

ELPHABA:
Because I knew you

GLINDA:
Because I knew you

GLINDA & ELPHABA:
I have been changed
For Good

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