Oh me where- Where is it written it is I'm meant to be I can't dare To have the to pick the fruit of ev'ry tree Or my share Of sweet-imagined possibility?
[speaking]those are questions that women have been asking for centuries, and incredibly enough, I think they're still asking 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 world 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 ones are Where are you now yesterday Has waved goodbye and closed door? The is so much darker, The is so much colder The I see is so much bigger 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 though the night is filled voices? I remember you taught me Ev'ry book ever read Can all the in all the books Help me to face what lies The trees are so much And I feel so much The moon is 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 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 is a boy to marry the girl, so he can still see her - not yentl, the other girl! so, the gir The 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, it's 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 leave her f .
Will someone ever 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 in such a way That what I'm feeling Sometimes I have the ev'rybody knows And even though crazy, I can't help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by miracle of miracles, turn 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 ev'ry possibility? The more I - the more I learn. The more I learn - the 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 more I to go. What's wrong with wanting 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 been beset by many problems. but, it's had accomp Ents, a fact that sometimes seems to get overlooked nowadays, you know? I guess it is 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 country of ours and around the world.