Oh tell me Where is it written it is I'm meant to be That I can't To have the chance to the fruit of ev'ry tree Or have my Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[speaking]those are that women 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 father, recogn Her thirst for knowledge, 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? are you now that yesterday Has waved goodbye and closed door? The night is so 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 filled voices? I ev'rything you taught me book I've ever read Can all the in all the books Help me to what lies ahead? The are so much taller And I feel so smaller 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 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 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 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 .
Will someone ever look at me that See the way they at her, Like they follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my forget themselves And do I look at him And smile in a way That I'm feeling shows? Sometimes I have the ev'rybody knows And though it's crazy, Still I can't help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see day by some miracle of miracles, He'll around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? Where is the who will 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. Each I take - (papa, I've a voice now!)each page I - (papa, I've a choice now!)each mile I travel only The more I to go. wrong with wanting more? If you can fly - soar! With all 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 that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you 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 this great country of ours and the world.