WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Music by
Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
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, or wonder what befell,
The 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?
Is this
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, no anyplace to hide
You are all I'll 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 a stretch of mortal time?
Is this
God's experiment?
In which we have no say?
In which we're given paradise,
But only for a day.
© 1999 Wonderland Music Company, Inc./Happenstance Ltd./Evadon Ltd.