Written in the Stars

[Verse 1: Elton John] I am here to tell you we can never meet again Simple, really, isn't it? A word or two, and then A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell The someone you once loved so long ago so well [Verse 2: LeAnn Rimes] Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by You don't have to ask me, and I need not reply Every moment of my life from now until I die I will think or dream of you and fail to understand How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand [Chorus: Elton John & LeAnn Rimes] Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time Is this God's experiment In which we have no say In which we're given paradise But only for a day [Verse 3: Elton John, LeAnn Rimes, & both] Nothing can be altered, oh, there is nothing to decide No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned What it is to be in love and have that love returned [Chorus: Elton John & LeAnn Rimes] Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time Is this God's experiment Oh, in which we have no say In which we're given paradise But only for a day [Chorus: Elton John, LeAnn Rimes, both, & choir] Is it written in the stars Are we paying for some crime Is that all that we are good for Just a stretch of mortal time Is this God's experiment (God's experiment) In which we have no say (In which we have no say) In which we're given paradise (Given paradise) But only for a day