ARCHIBALD:
Last night I dreamed I walked through the maze to Lily's garden
And saw Lily and Mary standing there. Mary standing right there
In Lily's garden. I turned away...I couldn't watch...I was afraid
NEVILLE:
Why won't he say what he wants?
Why must he speak in dreams?
Why can't he see what he wants?
To disappear, it seems
He should send this haunted girl far away
Leave the house and lands to me
ARCHIBALD:
I watched them walk around the garden
She stood tall, grown strong and bold
Then they turned and asked my pardon
I couldn't speak, my heart grown cold
NEVILLE:
Why can't he see what he wants?
He wants the past undone
Why can't he know what he wants?
He's losing battles won
To have ever loved her
Never known how complete a loss can be
If she could disappear, he'd start again
And live like other men, he could be happy then
If she'd disappear, he could be free
Cut off from pain and loss
A bit like me
ROSE:
You can't marry this Archibald! He's a gloomy
Miserable cripple who hides himself away in
That horrible house! He can't believe you love
Him and neither can I
LILY:
No one is asking for your approval, Rose
ROSE:
Lily, if you don't care what happens to you, think
About your children. Do you want your children to
Be crippled as well?
LILY:
I will marry him
NEVILLE: ROSE:
I can arrange what he wants, Don't do this
He's left it all to me. Don't wed him
Now he can have what he wants, Don't bed him
Unfetted he will be, Don't do this
Set him free to wander Set him free
Through the world
Let him go
His lonely ways
ARCHIBALD: LILY:
Then I longed to join them Now that
Know the peace they feel I love him
Their journey done. I will live
Then I woke once more For him
Without them, Live just to love him
Knew I must wander on and on
ROSE
I I won't forgive you
Go Won't see you live there
Life to Lily, I swear
Find! I'll never see you
NEVILLE:
Just to disappear
Is to be free
LILY:
Do what you will, then
I'll never leave him
NEVILLE:
Cut off from
Pain-cut off from
Pain
I'll help him disappear
He'll start again
ROSE
Cut off from pain
Cut off from pain
Now you must leave him! LILY:
Yes, you must leave him! How can I leave him
I'll never leave him, Nor e'er deceive him
Yes, you must leave him! Rose
Lily, promise! I promised
Yes, you must leave him, Never leave him
You must believe
You must believe
NEVILLE:
Disappear
LILY: ROSE
I will wed and bear him children. Lily, think about the children
He will love me, love the children. Lily, think about the children
There's A Man (Transition)
There's a man who no one sees
There's a man who lives alone
There's a heart that beats in silence for
The life he's never known
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