Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be I can't dare To have the chance to pick the of ev'ry tree Or have my Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[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 eastern 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 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 help me not be Looking at the skies, I seem to see a eyes Which ones are Where are you now yesterday Has waved and closed it's door? The is so much darker, The is so much colder The world I see is so bigger 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 is filled with voices? I remember you taught me book I've ever read Can all the words in all the Help me to face what ahead? The trees are so much And I feel so much The moon is as lonely 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 love but it turns out he's already in love with 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 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 the only thing he really wants to study 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 they at her, Like slaves they follow she goes. Do my eyes forget And do I ever at him And smile in a way That what I'm shows? Sometimes I the feeling ev'rybody knows And even it's crazy, Still I help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by miracle of miracles, He'll around 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 sweet-imagined possibility? The I live - the more I learn. The more I - the more I realize The I know. Each step I - (papa, I've a voice now!)each I turn - (papa, a choice now!)each mile I travel only means The more I to go. wrong 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 glad you liked that! thank you! thank you! 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 overlooked nowadays, you know? I guess it is easier to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing this song in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and possible in this country of ours and around the world.