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EASY AS LIFE Lyrics
Aida (complete libretto)Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls & David Henry Hwang EASY AS LIFE
AIDA
This is the moment when the gods expect me
To beg for help but I won't even try
I want nothing in this world but myself to protect me
But I won't lie down, roll over and die
All I have to do is to forget how much I love him
All I have to do is put my longing to one side
Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died
It's easy, it's easy
All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start
It's easy, It's easy
Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him
And how he would have been were I to be with him today
Those very rare occasions don't let up they keep on coming
All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away
It's easy, it's easy as life
But then I see the faces of a worn , defeated people
A father and a nation who won't let a coward run
is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages ?
Forcing us to prove the hardest things we've done
Are easy
So easy
And though I'll think about him 'til the earth draws in around me
And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love
This is no denial, no betrayal but redemption
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above
It's easy
It's easy as life
It's easy as life
It's easy as life
ACT TWO
Scene Three
THE WAR ROOM OF THE PALACE
ZOSER is showing AMNERIS a giant map of the Nile.
AMNERIS
But why did we invade Babylon?
ZOSER
Because once we have control of the waterways, the rest of the world opens up for us.
AMNERIS
Yes, but our Egyptian armies just stormed in and seized power? How oppressive
of us.
ZOSER
Perhaps, Princess. But where do you think that beautiful necklace came from?
(He points to her necklace. AMNERIS looks down at it, then removes it, placing it on Zoser's table.)
AMNERIS
Suddenly it's not so beautiful
(RADAMES enters.)
ZOSER
I've been explaining our foreign campaigns to Amneris.
RADAMES
Really?
ZOSER
Yes. Because she wanted to know what's been preoccupying you of late.
AMNERIS
Radames, I feel like we haven't had a moment along since you returned from Nubia.
I miss you. Can't we spend this afternoon together?
RADAMES
Of course. Of course, we can. But first, I'd like to have a word with my father.
(He takes a scroll from the table and hands it to AMNERIS.)
Here, you can read this while you wait.
AMNERIS
"The Campaign at Kadesh."
RADAMES
It will give us something to talk about.
AMNERIS
I didn't realize we were at a loss for topics. But then there's a lot I haven't realized
(AMNERIS exits.)
RADAMES
That was clever of you.
ZOSER
I can't have you neglecting the girl. Not after all the trouble I've gone to.
RADAMES
You arranged a marriage.
ZOSER
There have been other arrangements as well, son. Things I've done on your behalf.
RADAMES
I haven't asked you to do anything for me!
ZOSER
No you're right, you haven't because you've been too busy whiling away the hours with that slave girl.
RADAMES
Oh, your spies are good.
ZOSER
Radames, you can have your little diversion, just wait until after you've wed.
RADAMES
Like you did?
ZOSER
Your mother never had any complaints.
RADAMES
She never had any choice.
ZOSER
Don't you realize that whore could cost you the throne?
RADAMES
I don't care about the throne, father. Because I'm not like you. And I never will be.
Aida Broadway Lyrics
Written in the Stars - (from Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' Aida)
Choral (SAB). (from Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' Aida). By Elton John and LeAnn Rimes. By Elton John and Tim Rice. Arranged by Mac Huff. Pop Choral Series. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.8201102).
Broadway bound, this stirring pop ballad is from Walt Disney Theatrical Productions' Aida, as recorded by composer Elton John and teen singing star LeAnn Rimes. Available: SATB, SAB, 2-Part, ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 4:10.
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