Little Women movie - How I Am lyrics
rate me<br>
Professor Bhaer:<br>
<br>
She asks how I am,<br>
And so, how am I?<br>
My days are the usual day.<br>
I wake up, I go out,<br>
Time goes by.<br>
My days are exactly the days<br>
I have lived since arriving here.<br>
In fact, how I am is amazed how<br>
This comforts me year by year.<br>
I work and I eat.<br>
Life is muffins and jam.<br>
The house is nice and quiet now.<br>
That is how I am.<br>
<br>
Five years in these rooms,<br>
Reading Hegel and Kant<br>
My mind is devoted to thoughts<br>
On the meaning of life.<br>
What more could I want?<br>
So why is it lately I find I’m <br>
Uneasy all through the night?<br>
And why even now does my skin<br>
Feel explosive as dynamite?<br>
Why does my heart pound<br>
Like a battering ram?<br>
How can she ask me how I am?<br>
How I am is fine!<br>
<br>
“Dear Miss March, there is nothing <br>
Dramatic or new to report,<br>
This will be short.<br>
<br>
Morning and evning I live<br>
In my usual way.<br>
On the day you return you <br>
Will see for yourself!<br>
Tell me Miss March, are you<br>
<br>
Happy so far from the clang<br>
And the beat of our turbulent street?<br>
Quite often I think of<br>
Our days in New York.<br>
Though of course since you went I <br>
Have been quite content.’<br>
<br>
<br>
Ach! I wake in the morning <br>
And all that I hear <br>
Is the absence of sound.<br>
Yes!My peace is disturbed <br>
But the ruckus is me<br>
As my thoughts run aground.<br>
I wanted a life by myself <br>
In these romms, <br>
And now all around me <br>
Another life looms.<br>
<br>
Who asked her to come and<br>
To go and to leave me like that?<br>
And now she expects me <br>
To send her a note?<br>
With words, if I spoke,<br>
That would stick in my throat!<br>
Who asked her to change how I live,<br>
How I think, how I am?<br>
<br>
She asks how I am.<br>
How can I reply? I go through my daily routine.<br>
I give lessons, I wait.<br>
Time goes by.<br>
Yet lately I find there is<br>
Pleasure in humming a silly tune.<br>
And some days I go to the park <br>
And I sit there all afternoon.<br>
Some evenings I swear<br>
I can hear a door slam.<br>
The house is far too quiet now.<br>
That is how I am.<br>
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[Thanks to Georg for lyrics]<br>
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