Oh tell me Where is it what it is I'm meant to be That I can't To have the chance to pick the fruit of ev'ry Or have my Of ev'ry possibility?
[speaking]those are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I 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 some of you know, is the story of a girl in eastern europe at the turn of the century, the world of study belonged only to men. but yentl's father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, her secretly. and after his death, in order 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 are you now that yesterday Has goodbye and closed it's door? The is so much darker, The wind is so much The I see is so much bigger Now I'm alone Papa, please me Try to me Papa, don't you know I had no Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even the night is filled with voices? I ev'rything you taught me Ev'ry I've ever read Can all the in all the books me to face what lies ahead? The trees are so taller And I feel so much The is twice as lonely 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 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 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 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 he comes over 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 .
Will someone ever look at me way? See the way gaze at her, Like slaves follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes themselves And do I look at him And smile in a way That I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I have the ev'rybody knows And even it's crazy, Still I can't help wond'ring if ever live to see that day by some miracle of miracles, He'll turn around and at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the someone who will turn and at me? And to share My sweet-imagined possibility? The more I - the more I learn. The more I learn - the I realize The I know. Each I take - (papa, I've a now!)each page I turn - (papa, I've a now!)each mile I travel only means The I have to go. What's wrong with more? If you can fly - soar! With all is - why settle for a piece 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, great! thank you! this current 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 to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing this song tonight in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and possible in this great of ours and around the world.