Yentl movie - WHERE IS IT WRITTEN? lyrics

rate me

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Music: Michel Legrand<br>

Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman<br>

Premiere: 1983<br>

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PRAYER<br>

God, our merciful father,<br>

I’m wrapped in a robe of light,<br>

Clothed in your glory<br>

That spreads its wings over my soul.<br>

Maybe I be worthy<br>

Amen.<br>

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There’s not a morning I begin without<br>

A thousand questions running through my mind,<br>

That I don’t try to find the reason and the logic<br>

In the world that God designed.<br>

The reason why<br>

a bird was given wings,<br>

If not to fly and praise the sky<br>

With every song it sings.<br>

What’s right or wrong,<br>

Where I belong<br>

Within the scheme of things...<br>

And why have eyes that see<br>

And arms that reach<br>

Unless you’re meant to know<br>

There’s something more?<br>

If not to hunger for the meaning of it all,<br>

Then tell me what a soul is for?<br>

Why have the wings<br>

Unless you’re meant to fly?<br>

And tell me please, why have a mind<br>

If not to question why?<br>

And tell me where-<br>

Where is it written what it is <br>

I’m meant to be, that I can’t dare<br>

To have the chance to pick the fruit of every tree,<br>

Or have my share of every sweet-imagined possibility?<br>

Just tell me where, tell me where?<br>

If I were only meant to tend the nest,<br>

Then why does my imagination sail<br>

Across the mountains and the seas,<br>

Beyond the make-believe of any fairy tale? <br>

Why have the thirst if not to drink the wine?<br>

And what a waste to have a taste <br>

Of things that can't he mine?<br>

And tell me where, where is it written what it is<br>

I'm meant to be, that I can't dare-<br>

To find the meanings in the mornings that I see,<br>

Or have my share of every sweet-imagined possibility?<br>

Just tell me where- where is it written?<br>

Tell me where-<br>

Or if it's written anywhere?<br>

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