Oh me where- is it written what it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the chance to pick the fruit of tree Or my share Of ev'ry sweet-imagined
[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 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 find me in the Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you help me not be Looking at the skies, I seem to see a million Which ones are Where are you now 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 that I'm Papa, please me Try to me Papa, don't you know I had no Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the night is filled with I remember ev'rything you me Ev'ry book ever read Can all the in all the books Help me to face what lies The trees are so taller And I feel so smaller The moon is twice as And the stars are 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 she falls 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 from getting married. and to make a long story short, he asks yentl, who, of course, he 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 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 clear that the only thing he really wants to is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never leave her f .
Will someone look at me that way? See the way gaze at her, Like slaves they follow 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 though crazy, Still I can't help wond'ring if ever live to see that day When by miracle of miracles, He'll turn and look at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the someone who will and look at me? And to share My ev'ry possibility? The more I live - the I learn. The more I learn - the I realize The I know. Each I take - (papa, a voice now!)each page I turn - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I only means The I have to go. What's with wanting more? If you can fly - soar! With all 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 current 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 this song tonight in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and possible in this great country of ours and the world.