Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the chance to pick the fruit of 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 asking them today! I think that's 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, when the world of 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 find me in the Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me not be frightened? Looking at the skies, I seem to see a eyes Which are yours? Where are you now that Has goodbye and closed it's door? The is so much darker, The wind is so much The world I see is so much 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 words in all the Help me to what lies ahead? The trees are so taller And I feel so much 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 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 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 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 clear that the only 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 that See the way they at her, slaves they follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes themselves And do I ever at him And in such a way That what I'm feeling Sometimes I the feeling ev'rybody knows And even though crazy, Still I can't help if I'll ever live to see that day When by miracle of miracles, He'll turn around and at me way...
A of sky Oh tell me Where is the who will turn and look at me? And to share My ev'ry possibility? The more I live - the I learn. The I learn - the more I realize The I know. Each step I - (papa, I've a voice now!)each page I - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I travel means The I have to go. What's with wanting more? If you can fly - soar! all there is - why settle for Just a piece of 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 that sometimes seems to get 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 Ositive and possible in this country of ours and around the world.