Oh me where- Where is it written what it is I'm to be That I can't To have the chance to pick the fruit of ev'ry 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 what attracted me to yentl, and why I had I had to 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, 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 me in the night? Papa, are you me? Papa, can you me? Papa, can you me not be frightened? Looking at the skies, I to see a million eyes Which ones are Where are you now yesterday Has waved goodbye and it's door? The is so much darker, The wind is so colder The world I see is so much Now that I'm Papa, please me Try to me Papa, you know I had no choice? Can you me praying, I'm saying, Even the night is filled with voices? I ev'rything 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 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 love with; but it turns out he's already in love with another girl, but because of circumstances I can't go 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 want to see how yentl got away with the wedding night, you'll have to rent the video! it's 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 .
someone ever look at me that way? See the way they at her, slaves they follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes forget And do I look at him And smile in a way That I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I have the ev'rybody knows And even though crazy, Still I can't help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see day When by some of miracles, turn around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh tell me Where is the someone who will 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. Each step I - (papa, a voice now!)each page I turn - (papa, I've a now!)each mile I travel only means The more I 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! 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 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 thing tha Ositive and possible in this great country of and around the world.