Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Book by Craig Lucas
02) The Beauty Is
Italian Translation by Judith Blazer
04) Passeggiata
05) Dividing Day
06) Say It Somehow
08) Let's Walk
09) Love to Me
10) Fable
11) The Light in the Piazza (performance edition)
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01) Statues and Stories [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:25
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MARGARET
On a central square
in a city of the sun,
rose a palace.
It was high and handsome
gleaming like the crown
of a king.CLARA
Where would that be? Where is that?MARGARET
In the tower
a warning bell would ringCLARA
What kind of warning?MARGARET
for a fire,
or a river overflowing.CLARA
Oh.MARGARET
Firenze.On a central square,
the beginning of a kingdom republic.CLARA
Was there a king?
Was there a queen?MARGARET
There were princes, painters,
noblemen of logic and art.CLARA
Firenze!MARGARET
Leonardo,CLARA
Leonardo!MARGARET
Michelangelo,
the start.CLARA
That's a completely naked statue!MARGARET
'T was a dawning day
unfurlingCLARA
from the heart!The painting of the world we know.
TOGETHER
The world we know.On a central square,
MARGARET
in a city made of statues and stories,TOGETHER
It ignited there,
like a beacon coming out of the dark.MARGARET
You can feel it.CLARA
You can feel it.MARGARET
You can followCLARA
You can follow...MARGARET
the sparkCLARA
We're on vacation.MARGARET
From an age to an age.CLARA
From an age to an age.MARGARET
In Firenze,CLARA
In Firenze,MARGARET
In Firenze,CLARA
In FirenzeMARGARET (CLARA)
The spark, (The painting of)
The world. (the world.)TOGETHER
It started then and there
And here we are.
It's a new old world to me.
It's a new old world
and we are fin'lly here!
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02) The Beauty Is [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:50
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CLARA
These are very popular in Italy!
It's the land of naked marble boys!
Something we don't see a lot in Winston Salem.
That's the land of corduroys.I'm just a someone in an old museum,
far away from home as someone can go,
and the beauty is
I still meet people I know.
Hello.This is wanting something.
This is reaching for it.
This is wishing that moment would arrive.
This is taking chances.
This is almost touching.
What the beauty is...I don't understand a word they're saying.
I'm as diff'rent here as diff'rent can be,
but the beauty is
I still meet people like me.Ev'ryone's a mother here in Italy.
Ev'ryone's a father or a son.
I think if I had a child I would take such care of her.
Then I wouldn't feel like one.I've hardly met a single soul
but I'm not alone.
I feel known!This is wanting something.
This is praying for it.
This is holding breath
and keeping fingers crossed.
This is counting blessings.
This is wond'ring when
I'll see that boy again.I've got a feeling he's just a someone too.
And the beauty is
when you realize,
when you realize
someone may be looking
for a someone like you.
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03) Il Mondo Era Vuoto [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:52
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FABRIZIO
Il mondo era vuoto.
Le ombre lo riempivan.
La luce non pariva mai.
Clara, la luce nella piazza.
Clara, mia luce, mio cor!
Ora che sono sveglio all'ombra non vo tornar.No sapevo di sentirmi solo, privo del senzo della vita.
Era cosi!
Clara!
Clara!
Clara, mia luce, mio cor!
L'essenza che mi mancava sei tu.
La tua luce m'inonda.Ma lei non puo amarmi!
Non cosi!
Oh Clara!
Non amera un ragazzino!
Non puo amare'un ragazzino!
Dio!
Papa!
Clara!
Clara!
Clara, mia luce, mio cor!
L'essenza che mi mancava sei tu.
Sei tu Clara!
Clara!
Clara, mia luce, mio cor!
L'essenza che mi mancava sei tu.
Sei tu Clara!
Clara!
Clara, mia luce, mio cor!
Solo nel buio
Non ero vivo!
O dio datemi mia Clara!
Ma ora la sua luce
M'i nonda!
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04) Passeggiata [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 1:32
FILE SIZE: 8.04
FABRIZIO
Come with me.
Walk with me,
walking in my city
Una passeggiata
you and I.
See the faces
from the daytime
talking in the evening.
See the churches shining,
see the sky.Now is I am happiness!
Never I am unhappiness.
Now is I am happiness with you!
Come with me,
Walk with me
in the place that I know.
La passeggiata!Ah
Ah
Now is I am happiness with you.
Come with me
in the place that I live from a child,
the place that I know.
La passeggiata!
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05) Dividing Day [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:57
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MARGARET
Dashing as the day we met,
only there is something I don't recognize.
Though I cannot name it yet, I know it.Beautiful is what you are.
Only somehow wearing a frightening disguise.
I can see the winter in your eyes now,
telling me:
"Thank you.
We're done here.
Not much
to say.
We are
together,
but I have had
dividing day."So when... when was this day?
Was it on the church-step?
Suddenly you're out of love?
Does it go creeping slowly?
When was your dividing day?I can see the winter in your eyes now
telling me:
"Mar'gret,
we did it.
You curtsied,
I bowed.
We are
together.
But no more love--
no more love allowed."
When was this dividing day?
Was it on the church-step?
Did it happen right away?
Were you lying next to me
hiding what you couldn't say?
How could I have guessed?
Was your cheek upon my chest,
an ocean away?
When was,
when was,
when was dividing day?
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06) Say It Somehow [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 3:33
FILE SIZE: 16.3 KB
CLARA
Why don't you trace it on my hand?
Or make a song? Do anything!
Say it somehow. I will understand.
I know you. You are good.FABRIZIO
The sound inside you, this I know.
It's like a melody, like there you go, just now!
Say it somehow. Somehow you can show me.TOGETHER
Say it somehow any way you can.
You know me. You are good.
Oh, you are good. You are good to me.
I know the sound of touch me.
I think I hear the sound of warp your arms around me.
Ah
Ah
Shout and dance in rings!CLARA
Or say it silently.FABRIZIO
Tell me things!TOGETHER
Ah, we'll play a game, you trace it on my skin.
Do it any way, but let's begin.
Do it somehow. Somehow you can show me.
I know that you know me.
Ah
AhYou are good to me.
I know the sound of touch me.
I think I hear the sound of wrap your arms around me.
Ah
Ah
Ah
Tell me things!
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
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07) The Light in the Piazza [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 3:01
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CLARA
I don't see a miracle
shining from the sky.
I'm no good at statues and stories. I try.
That's not what I think about.
That's not what I see.
I know what the sunlight can be.
The light...
The light in the piazza.Tiny sweet, and then it grows,
and then it fills the air.
Who knows what you call it.
I don't care!Out of somewhere
I have something I have never had,
and sad is happy.
That's all I see.
The light in the piazza.
The light in the piazza.It's rushing up.
It's pouring out.
It's flying through the air,
all through the air.
Who knows what you call it.
But it's there!
It is there.
All I see is,
all I want is tearing from inside.
I see it!
Now I see it ev'rywhere!
It's ev'rywhere!
It's ev'rything and ev'rywhere!
Fabrizio.The light in the piazza.
My love.
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08) Let's Walk [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:52
FILE SIZE: 10.3 KB
SIGNOR NACCARELLI
I look at him and that was me,
the blindness and the energy.
I want to say:
"Here, come this way."MARGARET
When we are at a certain age
we almost fall on purpose,
fall with all our might,
and then it is alright.But what do I know of the road
to be taken for happiness?SIGNOR NACCARELLI
Let's walk...MARGARET
let's walk...SIGNOR NACCARELLI
let's walk...MARGARET
let's walk...SIGNOR NACCARELLI
let's walk...MARGARET
let's see...TOGETHER
the rest will be.Ah...
Ah...
And after that
we might as well walk.SIGNOR NACCARELLI
Ah...MARGARET (SIGNOR NACCARELLI)
When I was younger I was she, (Ooh...)
the innocence, the fantasy.
But it's okay. (Ooh...)
That goes away.SIGNOR NACCARELLI (MARGARET)
That's how I was, the way they are, (Ah...)
the way they love to worry so
all through the night (Ah...)
when ev'rything's alright.TOGETHER
But what can we say?
They are made of tomorrow and yesterday.Let's walk...
let's walk...
It's true...
let's see...
Let's walk beyond our vanity.No one knows.
We only guess.
Just a leap for happiness,
for happiness, happiness.SIGNOR NACCARELLI
You never know
we might as well walk...MARGARET
We might as well walk,
we might as wellTOGETHER
walk...
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09) Love to Me [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 2:13
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FABRIZIO
The day we meet, the way you lean against the wind
and do not know that you are beautiful,
or that anyone is watching you.
This is what I see.And I notice how you hunger for surprise.
and do not think that you are tall enough,
like you're standing on a mountainside alone.
This is what I see.Oh
Oh
You're not alone!Now I see as I have never seen before,
since that moment in the square
when your hat is carried in the air
just so you can chase it,
just so I can be there.This is how I know.
This is what I see.
This is love to me.
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10) Fable [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 4:12
FILE SIZE: 21.8 KB
MARGARET
You can look in the forest
For a secret field
For a golden arrow
For a prince to appear
For a fable of love
that will last forever.You can look in the ruins
For a wishing well
For a magic apple
For a charioteer
For a fable of love
that will carry youTo a moon on a hill,
to a hidden stream
A lagoon and a red
horizon dream
Silhouette set away
from time forever
To a valley
beyond the setting sun
where waters shine
and horses run
Where there's a man
who looks for you.But while you look
you are changing, turning
you're a well of wishes,
you're a fallen apple.
No!
No!Love's a fake.
Love's a fable.
Just a painting on a ceiling
Just a children's fairy tale.Still you want to look
And look,
and look,
and look,
and look,
and look,
and look,
and look,
and lookFor the eyes on a bridge
in a pouring rain
Not the eyes, but the part
you can't explain
For the arms
you could fall into foreverFor the joy that you thought
You'd never know
For here at last
away you go
To a man who looks for you.If you find in the world
In the wide, wide world
That someone sees
That someone knows you.
Love!
Love!Love if you can,
Oh my Clara.
Love if you can
and be loved.May it last forever...
Clara...
The light in the Piazza.
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11) Light in the Piazza (performance edition) [ MIDI ]
DURATION: 3:12
FILE SIZE: 12.1 KB
CLARA
I don't see a miracle
shining from the sky.
I'm no good at statues and stories. I try.
That's not what I think about.
That's not what I see.
I know what the sunlight can be.
The light...
The light in the piazza.Tiny sweet, and then it grows,
and then it fills the air.
Who knows what you call it.
I don't care!Out of somewhere
I have something I have never had,
and sad is happy.
That's all I see.
The light in the piazza.
The light in the piazza.It's rushing up.
It's pouring out.
It's flying through the air,
all through the air.
Who knows what you call it.
But it's there!
It is there.
All I see is,
all I want is tearing from inside.
I see it!
Now I see it ev'rywhere!
It's ev'rywhere!
It's ev'rything and ev'rywhere!
Fabrizio.The light in the piazza.
My love.
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