CATS - Grizabella lyrics

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Grizabella intrudes once more, wanting to rejoin her <br />

family and be a part of the celebration. The cats again <br />

scorn her. She is left to contemplate her "Memory" of <br />

the time before she left the tribe, when she was once <br />

young, beautiful and happy.<br />

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GRIZABELLA: <br />

You see the border of her coat is torn and stained with sand <br />

And you see the corner of her eye twist like a crooked pin <br />

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Silence - not a sound from the pavement <br />

Has the moon lost her memory <br />

She is smiling alone <br />

In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet <br />

And the wind begins to moan <br />

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Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning <br />

Someone mutters and the streetlamp gutters <br />

And soon it will be morning <br />

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Memory - all alone in the moonlight <br />

I can smile at the old days <br />

I was beautiful then <br />

I remember the time I knew what happiness was <br />

Let the memory live again <br />

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She yearns to be accepted, and she stretches out her hand<br />

behind her, hoping another cat will touch her. It doesn't happen. <br />

She slinks off into the night.<br />

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ACT II