Music by Claude-Michel Scho:nberg

Original lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil



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DAK:

It's your prince this war destroyed first,

Then he came to destroy our world,

And I've found you,

So I've found you.



ALDREA:

In a wind that's blowing too fast,

In an air that won't let us last,

I will hold you,

I will hold you.



DAK: You know what waits for you like this, right?

ALDREA: I want to stay with you, come what might.

DAK: If love exists even now,

I can see, somehow,



A hope

That it will be diff'rent someday,

A crazy hope...

ALDREA: A useless hope.

BOTH: A hope

That says we and our love just may

Help make a better world someway,

So, don't resign,

Keep up the fight,

So this will be the last time we were hurt.



DAK:

Our world wasn't always like this,

I still remember joy and peace,

I will tell you...

ALDREA: If it were true!



DAK:

It was, and it will be, you must know!

I don't think we'll live to see it, though.

BOTH: But I'm sure our children will,

For I can feel, still,



A hope

That it will be diff'rent someday,

A crazy hope,

A useless hope,

A hope

That says we and our love just may

Help make a better world someway

So, don't resign,

Keep up the fight,

So this will be the last time we were hurt.



ALDREA: Wars were all I've ever shown.

DAK: Wars that end the pain we've known.

BOTH: They were not fought in vain,

They helped it go on,



Our hope --

-- That it will be better someday,

So, don't resign,

Keep up the fight,

So this will be the last time we were hurt!