| ELABORATE LIVES Radames: We all lead such elaborate lives wild ambitions in our sights How an affair of the heart survives days apart and hurried nights Seems quite unbelievable to me I don't want to live like that seems quite unbelievable to me I don't want to love like that I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser,free We all live in extravagant times playing games we can't all win Unintened emotional crimes Take some out, take others in I'm so tired of all were going through I don't want to live like that I'm so tired of all were going through I don't want to love like that I jsut want to be with you Now and forever ,peaceful,true This may not be the moment to tell you face to face But I could wait forever for the perfect time and place Aida & Radames: We all lead such elaborate lives We don't know whose words are true Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives Hard to know who's loving who Aida: Too many choices tear us apart I don't want to live like that Radames: Too many choices tear us apart I don't want to love like that I just want to touch your heart May this confession Radames and Aida: be the start The GODS LOVE NUBIA: Take me in my dreams recurring Cheerful as a childhood dance Into one more taste of freedom One more longing backward glance In the sway of somber music I shall never, never understand Let me slip into the sweeter Chorus of that other land The gods love Nubia, the beautiful, the golden The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed ... |
