Oh me where- Where is it what it is I'm meant to be That I dare To have the chance to pick the of ev'ry tree Or have my Of ev'ry 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 what 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 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 continue her studies, she had had no choice, but go out into the world 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 eyes Which ones are Where are you now that Has waved goodbye and closed door? The is so much darker, The wind is so much The world I see is so bigger Now I'm alone Papa, forgive me Try to me Papa, you know I had no choice? Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even though the is filled with voices? I remember ev'rything you me Ev'ry book I've ever Can all the in all the books Help me to what lies ahead? The are so much taller And I feel so smaller 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 love with; but it turns out he's already in love 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 girl get married, and if you want to see how yentl got away with the wedding night, you'll have to rent the video! just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, it's very ni S! anyway, mmm, one night he comes 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 .
someone ever look at me that way? See the way they at her, Like slaves follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes themselves And do I look at him And in such a way That I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I the feeling ev'rybody knows And though it's crazy, Still I can't wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day by some 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 want to My ev'ry sweet-imagined The more I - the more I learn. The I learn - the more I realize The I know. Each I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each 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 there is - why 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, that's great! thank you! this current administration has been beset by problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact that 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 Ositive and possible in great country of ours and around the world.