Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida movie - Elaborate Lives lyrics

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Song by Heather Headley<br /><br>

We all lead such elaborate lives<br>

Wild ambitions in our sights<br>

How an affair of the heart survives<br>

Days apart and hurried nights<br>

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Seems quite unbelievable to me<br>

I don't want to live like that<br>

Seems quite unbelievable to me<br>

I don't want to love like that<br>

I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free<br>

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We all live in extravagant times<br>

Playing games we can't all win<br>

Unintended emotional crimes<br>

Take some out, take others in<br>

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I'm so tired of all we're going through<br>

I don't want to live like that<br>

I'm so tired of all we're going through<br>

I don't want to love like that<br>

I just want to be with you now and forever, peaceful, true<br>

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I wish I had the courage<br>

To tell you face to face<br>

But I could wait forever<br>

For the perfect time and place<br>

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We all live such elaborate lives<br>

We don't know whose words are true<br>

Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives<br>

Hard to know whose loving who<br>

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Too many choices tear us apart<br>

I don't want to live like that<br>

Too many choices tear us apart<br>

I don't want to love like that<br>

I just want to touch your heart, may this confession be the start<br>

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