Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be That I can't To have the chance to pick the of ev'ry tree Or my share Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[speaking]those are questions that have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think 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, when the world of study belonged only to men. but yentl's father, Her 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 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 are yours? Where are you now that Has waved and closed it's door? The night is so darker, The wind is so colder The world I see is so much 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 you taught me Ev'ry book ever read Can all the words in all the Help me to face what ahead? The trees are so taller And I feel so smaller The moon is 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, then meets a boy whom 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 thinks is a boy to 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! it's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story, 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 study is her...not yentl...her wife, her...get it? his eyes never her f .
someone ever look at me that way? See the way gaze at her, slaves they 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 feeling knows And though it's crazy, Still I help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by some of miracles, He'll turn and look at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the someone who turn and look at me? And want to My ev'ry sweet-imagined The I live - the more I learn. The more I - the more I realize The I know. Each step I - (papa, a voice now!)each page I turn - (papa, a choice now!)each mile I travel only means The I have to go. What's wrong 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 sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? I guess it is easier to criticize than to praise! so, I'd to sing this song tonight in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and possible in this great country of ours and the world.