Oh tell me Where is it what it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the to pick the fruit of ev'ry tree Or have my Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[speaking]those are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still 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 order to 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 find me in the Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you help me not be at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes Which ones are Where are you now yesterday Has goodbye and closed it's door? The night is so darker, The wind is so much The I see is so much bigger Now I'm alone Papa, please me Try to me Papa, you know I had no choice? Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the night is with voices? I remember you taught me Ev'ry I've ever read Can all the in all the books Help me to face what lies The trees are so much And I feel so smaller The moon is as lonely And the are half as bright 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 in love with; but it turns out he's already in love with another girl, but because of circumstances I can't go into now, they'r Vented 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 get married, and if you want to see how yentl got away with the wedding night, you'll have to rent 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 over to the house to study. but it's that the only thing he really wants to study is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never leave her f .
Will someone ever look at me way? See the way they at her, Like slaves follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes forget And do I ever at him And smile in a way what I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I have the feeling knows And even though crazy, Still I help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by some of miracles, turn around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the who will turn and look at me? And want to My ev'ry possibility? The I live - the more I learn. The I learn - the more I realize The I know. Each I take - (papa, a voice now!)each page I turn - (papa, a choice now!)each mile I travel only means The more I to go. What's wrong with 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 you liked that! thank you! thank you! thank you! oh, that's great! thank you! this current administration has been beset by many problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact 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 thing tha and possible in this great country of ours and around the world.