Oh me where- Where is it written what it is I'm to be That I can't To have the to pick the fruit of ev'ry tree Or my share Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[speaking]those are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking 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, when the world of study belonged to men. but yentl's father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly. and 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 me not be frightened? at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes Which ones are Where are you now yesterday Has waved 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, forgive me Try to me Papa, don't you know I had no Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the is filled with voices? I remember you taught me Ev'ry book ever read Can all the in all the books me to face what lies ahead? The are so much taller And I so much smaller The moon is twice as 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 falls in love with; but it turns out he's already in 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 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 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 ever look at me that way? See the way gaze at her, Like slaves follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes forget And do I look at him And in such a way That I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I the feeling ev'rybody knows And even it's crazy, Still I can't help if I'll ever live to see that day by some miracle of miracles, He'll around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh tell me Where is the someone who turn and look at me? And want to My sweet-imagined possibility? The I live - the more I learn. The more I - the more I realize The I know. step I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each I turn - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I travel means The I have 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 current administration has been beset by many problems. but, it's had many 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 and possible in this great country of ours and around the world.