Oh tell me Where is it written what it is I'm to be That I can't To the chance to pick the fruit of ev'ry tree Or have my Of ev'ry sweet-imagined
[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 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 help me not be Looking at the skies, I to see a million 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 that I'm Papa, forgive 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 ev'rything you me Ev'ry 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 smaller The moon is twice as 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 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 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, 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 follow ev'ywhere she goes. Do my eyes forget And do I look at him And in such a way That what I'm shows? I have the feeling ev'rybody knows And even it's crazy, I can't help wond'ring if I'll ever live to see that day When by some of miracles, He'll around and look at me way...
A of sky Oh me where? is the someone who will turn and look at me? And to share My sweet-imagined possibility? The more I live - the I learn. The I learn - 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 means The more I 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! 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 to criticize than to praise! so, I'd like to sing this song tonight in celebration of every thing tha Ositive and in this great country of ours and around the world.