Ragtime movie - Our Children lyrics
rate me<br>
MOTHER<br>
How they play<br>
Finding treasure in the sand<br>
They're forever hand in hand,<br>
Our children.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
How they laugh<br>
She has never laughed like this<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
Every waking moment, bliss.<br>
<br>
BOTH<br>
Our children.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
See them running down the beach<br>
Children run so fast...<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
Toward the future...<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
From the past.<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
How they dance.<br>
Unembarrassed and alone<br>
<br>
BOTH<br>
Hearing music of their own,<br>
Our children.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
One so fair,<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
And the other, lithe and dark<br>
<br>
BOTH<br>
Solemn joy and sudden spark<br>
Our children<br>
See them running down the beach<br>
Children run so fast<br>
Toward the future<br>
From the past<br>
There they stand,<br>
Making footprints in the sand<br>
And forever, hand in hand<br>
Our children.<br>
Two small lives,<br>
Silhouetted by the blue<br>
One like me<br>
And one like you<br>
Our children.<br>
Our children. <br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
Well.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
You say that often. "Well".<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
It's because I don't know what to say, Baron.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
I'm not a Baron, of course. I'm a poor immigrant, a Jew, who points a camera so that his child can dress as beautifully as a<br>
princess. I want to drive from her memory every tenement stench and filthy immigrant street. I will buy her light and sun and<br>
clean wind of the ocean for the rest of her life. Now you know me. Now you understand. I am no Baron. I am Tateh.<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
Now I know even less what to say.<br>
<br>
TATEH<br>
Now it's my turn: Well.<br>
<br>
MOTHER<br>
Thank you for your confidence. I shall keep it here.<br>
<br>
(MOTHER puts her hand to her heart.) <br>
<br>
SHE goes. TATEH follows her with his eyes. He is smiling.<br>
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The music, lights and set segue to a street in Harlem, late at night.)<br>
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[Thanks to Yehuda Alexander for lyrics]<br>
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