Written in the Stars
Musical: Aida
Song: Written in the Stars
Performers: Heather Headley & Adam Pascal
Broadway Premiere: 2000
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Tim Rice
Book: Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls & David Henry Hwang
Basis: "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi
I am here to tell you we can never meet again. Simple, really, isn't it? A word or two and then a lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when. You think of me, or speak of me, and wonder what befell that someone you once loved so long ago so well. Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by. You don't have to ask me and I need not reply. Every moment of my life from now until I die, I will think or dream of you and fail to understand how a perfect love can be confounded out of hand. Is it written in the stars? Are we paying for some crime? Is that all that we are good for? Just a stretch of mortal time, or some God's experiment in which we have no say. In which we're given paradise, but only for a day. Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide. No escape, no change of heart, nor any place to hide. Oh, you are all I ever want, but this I am denied. Sometimes in my darkest thoughts I wish I'd never learned what it is to be in love and have that love returned. Is it written in the stars? Are we paying for some crime? Is that all that we are good for? Just some stretch of mortal time, or some God's experiment in which we have no say. In which we're given paradise, but only for a day.