Yentl Medley (Where Is It Written? / Papa, Can You Hear Me? / Will Someone Ever Look At Me That Way? / A Piece Of Sky)

[Part I: Where Is It Written?]

[Verse]

Oh, tell me where

Where is it written what it is I'm meant to be?

That I can't dare

To have the chance to pick the fruit of every tree

Or have my share

Of every sweet-imagined possibility?

[Segue]

Those are questions 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, I felt I had to make the film

Yentl, as, 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 Yentl's father, recognizing her thirst for knowledge, taught her secretly

And uh, after his death, in order to continue her studies

She had no choice but to go out into the world disguised as a man

[Part II: Papa, Can You Hear Me?]

[Verse 1]

Papa, can you hear me?

Papa, can you see me?

Papa, can you find me in the night?

Papa, are you near me?

Papa, can you hear me?

Papa, can you help me not be frightened?

Looking at the skies

I seem to see a million eyes

Which ones are yours?

Where are you now that yesterday

Has waved goodbye

And closed its doors?

The night is so much darker

The wind is so much colder

The world I see is so much bigger

Now that I'm alone

[Verse 2]

Papa, please forgive me

Try to understand me

Papa, don't you know I had no choice?

Can you hear me praying?

Anything I'm saying

Even though the night is filled with voices?

I remember everything you taught me

Every book I've ever read

Can all the words in all the books

Help me to face what lies ahead?

The trees are so much taller

And I feel so much smaller

The moon is twice as lonely

And the stars are half as bright

[Outro]

Papa, how I love you

Papa, how I need you

Papa, how I miss you

Kissing me goodnight

[Part III: Will Somebody Ever Look at Me That Way?]

[Segue]

To go on with the story, um

Yentl then meets a boy who 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're prevented from 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, the other girl

So, the girl and the girl get married

And if you want to see how Yentl got away with the wedding night

You have to rent the video!

It's just a variation on the boy-meets-girl-meets-girl-story

It's very nineties!

Anyway, um, one night he comes over to their house to study

But it's clear that, um, the only thing he really wants to study is her

Not Yentl, her wife her

Get it?

His eyes never leave her face

[Verse]

See the way they gaze at her like slaves

They follow everywhere she goes

Do my eyes forget themselves

And do I ever look at him

And smile in such a way

That what I'm feeling shows?

Sometimes I have the feeling

Everybody knows

And even though it's crazy

Still I can't help wondering if

I'll ever live to see the day

When by some miracle of miracles

He'll turn around

And look at me that way

[Part IV: A Piece of Sky]

[Intro]

Oh, tell me where

Where is the someone who will turn to look at me

And want to share

My every sweet-imagined possibility?

[Verse]

The more I live (The more I live)

The more I learn (The more I learn)

The more I learn, the more I realize

The less I know

Each step I take, papa, I've a voice now (Each step I take)

Each page I turn, papa, I've a choice now (Each page I turn)

Each mile I travel only means

The more I have to go

What's wrong with wanting more?

If you can fly, then soar

With all there is, why settle for

Just a piece of sky?

[Outro]

Papa, I can hear you

Papa, I can see you

Papa, I can feel you

Papa, watch me fly

Papa, watch me fly!

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