Oh tell me Where is it what it is I'm meant to be I can't dare To have the chance to pick the fruit of tree Or my share Of ev'ry possibility?
[speaking]those are questions women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking them today! I think that's what attracted me to yentl, and why I had I had to make the film...yentl, as of you know, is the story of a girl in eastern europe at the turn of the century, when the world of study belonged only to men. but yentl's father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly. and after his death, in to continue her studies, she had had no choice, but go out into the world disguised as a man...
Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you see me? Papa, can you me in the night? Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you help me not be Looking at the skies, I seem to see a eyes Which ones are Where are you now yesterday Has goodbye and closed it's door? The is so much darker, The wind is so colder The world I see is so much Now I'm alone Papa, forgive me Try to me Papa, don't you I had no choice? Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the is filled with voices? I remember ev'rything you me book I've ever read Can all the in all the books Help me to face what ahead? The trees are so taller And I feel so much The moon is twice as And the stars are half as Papa, how I you Papa, how I you Papa, how I you me goodnight... To go on with the story, em, yentl then meets a boy whom she falls in love with; but it turns out already in love with another girl, but because of circumstances I can't go into now, they'r from getting married. and to make a long story short, he asks yentl, who, of course, he thinks is a boy to marry the girl, so he can still see her - not yentl, the other girl! so, the gir The girl get married, and if you want to see how yentl got away with the wedding night, you'll have to the video! it's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, it's very ni S! anyway, mmm, one night he comes to the house to study. but it's clear that the only thing he really wants to study is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never leave her f .
someone ever look at me that way? See the way they at her, Like they follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my forget themselves And do I look at him And smile in a way what I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I have the ev'rybody knows And even it's crazy, Still I help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by miracle of miracles, turn around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh tell me Where is the someone who turn and look at me? And to share My ev'ry possibility? The more I - the more I learn. The I learn - the more I realize The I know. Each I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each I turn - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I travel only The more I to go. What's wrong wanting more? If you can fly - soar! all there is - why settle for Just a of sky? Papa, I can you... Papa, I can see you... Papa, I can you... Papa, me fly! Papa, me fly!
[speaking]thank you! I'm glad you liked that! thank you! thank you! thank you! oh, that's great! thank you! this administration has been beset by many problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? I guess it is easier to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing this song tonight in celebration of every tha Ositive and possible in this great country of and around the world.