Oh me where- Where is it what 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 ev'ry 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 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 disguised 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 me not be frightened? Looking at the skies, I seem to see a eyes Which are yours? Where are you now yesterday Has goodbye and closed it's door? The is so much darker, The wind is so much The I see is so much 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 night is with voices? I remember you taught me Ev'ry book I've ever Can all the words in all the me to face what lies ahead? The are so much taller And I feel so much The is twice as lonely 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 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 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 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 forget themselves And do I look at him And in such a way That what I'm feeling I have 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 turn 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 ev'ry sweet-imagined The more I - 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 I travel only means The I have to go. What's wrong 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! thank you! oh, that's great! thank you! this current administration has beset by many problems. but, it's had many accomp Ents, a fact 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 every thing tha and possible in this great country of ours and around the world.