Home Again
The night is cool.
The wind is high.
A wave of light
Breaks through the sky.
I watch the light
And wonder when
This wind will sweep
Me home again.

I would be warm
If I were there
In golden fields
And easy air.
I close my eyes
And now and then
My weary heart
Moves home again.

Let my heart fly!
Help me break free!
Sweet night, fill me with light!
Bring me home again!

I will hold on.
I will get through.
I will not die
Away from you.
I don't know how,
I don't know when,
But I will see
My home again.

Hold on til then-
Oh, wait for me!
I will be free
And home again...

Into the Fire
David walked into the valey
With a stone clutched in his hand.
He was only a boy, but he knew
Someone must take a stand.

There will always be a valley,
Always mountains one must scale.
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail!

Into valleys, into waters,
Into jungles, into hell!
Let us ride, let us ride home
Again with a story to tell!

Into darkness, into danger,
Into storms that rip the night!
Don't give in, don't give upt,
But give thanks for the glorious fight!

You can tremble, you can fear it,
But keep your fighting spirit
Alive, boys!
Let the shiver of it sting you!
Fling into battle!  Spring to
Your feet, boys!
Never hold back your step for a moment!
Never doubt that your courage will grow!
Hold your head even higher
And into the fire we go!

Are there mountains that surround us?
Are there walls that block the way?
Knock them down, strip the back, boys,
And forward, and into the fray!

Into terror, into valor,
Charge ahead-no, never turn!
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!

Someone has to face the valley!
Rush in we have to rally
And win, boys!
When the world is saying not to,
By God you know you've got to
March on, boys!
Never hold back your step for a moment!
Never doubt that your courage will grow!
Hold your head even higher
And into the fire we go!

Let the lightning strike!
Let the flash of it shock you!
Choke your fears away-
Pull as tight as a wire.
Let the fever spike!
Let the force of it rock you!
We will have our day,
Sailing into the fire!
 

Someone has to face the valley!
Rush in we have to rally
And win, boys!
When the world is saying not to,
By God you know you've got to
March on, boys!
Never hold back your step for a moment!
Never doubt that your courage will grow!
Hold your head even higher
And into the fire we go!
Into fire!
Onward, ho!!!

They Seek Him Here
They seek him here.
They seek hime there.
Those Frenchies seek hime everywhere.
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demmed elusive Pimpernel.

He meddles with the Frenchie revolution,
Popping in and out each week,
Spoiling ev'ry lovely execution-
La, what cheek!

They seek him here.
They seek hime there.
Those Frenchies seek hime everywhere.
If there is a phantom in heaven or hell,
'Tis the Scarlet Pimpernel!

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Company:  This country's topsy-turvy
                 With its latest parlour game.
                 We talk about this Pimpernel
                 From night to morn.
Women:    We dress ourselves in scarlet
                 As a tribute to his name.
Men:         You'd think that good Sir Galahand
                 Had been re-born.
Man 1:      But the jackanapes is always-
                 Runnin' around in some disguise-
Woman 1: It's unfortunate to note
                 Curiosity just grows and grows.

Women:    Is vulgarian or sleek?
Men:         Authoritarian or meek?
Man 1:      I hear he's steely as you please.
Woman I: I hear he's really Japanese.
Men:         He may be shrewd.
Women:    He may be lewd.
Company:  Ah, well, it's hard to tell.
                 Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

Man 1:        Lud love me, but I'm tired
                  Of the subject draggin' on.
Man 2:        Here, here!  The fella's
                  Just a man like you or me.
Woman 2:  These stories of bravery
                  Will only make me yawn.
Woman 1:  Precisely so.  The Pimpernel
                  Does not move me.
Women:     But the impudence to keep himself
                  A secret from us all!
                  And the arrogance to make us guess!
                  No, I do not care to know,
                  His identity nor his address.

Woman 1:  But does he wear a rakish hat?
Woman 3:  Oh, I can't bear it if he's fat.
Woman 4:  Perhaps he swaggers on a heath.
Woman 1:  With sev'ral daggers in his teeth.
Men:          Oh, don't'cha know
                  He's Romeo
                  To ev'ry mad'moiselle-
Man 1:       This blasted Scarlet Pimpernel!

Woman 2:  I see him as a pirate!
Woman 3:  No-a poet!
Woman 4:  No-a prince!
Woman 1:  A gypsy mopping sweat upon his brow.
Men:          Might it be this gypsy of yours
                  Stands before you now?

Man 2:       It could be him!
Man 3:       It you could be you!
Man 1:       Odd's fish, it could be me!
                  This scallawag could be most any sod.
Woman 1:  Bite your tongue!  He's dashing and young!
Women:     The Pimpernel's a god!

Women:     And he'll find me...
                  And he'll wake me...
                  And he'll take me
Woman 1:  Down in the hay with him.
Women:     I'm his!
Men:          But lud knows who he is!
Women:     A hero or a monk?
Men:          A Nero or a drunk?
Company:  Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?

Man 1:       I say he's weird!
Man 2:       A lunatic!
Man 3:       No doubt a beard!
Man 4:       A nervous tic!
Woman 2:  Ten tender toes!
Woman 3:  Two languid lips!
Woman 4:  A Roman nose!
Woman 1:  And sev'ral whips!
Women:     A lovely lad!
Men:          A cursed cad!
Women:     Oh, he's a saint!
Men:          He ain't!
Women:     This plucky non-pareil!
Men:          This lucky, bloody swell!
Comapny:  Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?!

When I Look at You
When I look at you,
What I always see
Is the face of someone else
Who once belonged to me.
Still I can hear him laugh,
And even though that melody plays on,
He's gone.

When I look at you,
He is standing there.
I can almost breathe him in
Like summer in the air.
Why do you smile his smile?
That heaven I'd forgotten eases through
In you.

If you could look at me once more
With all the love you felt before-
If you and I could dance into the past
And find that love we knew,
I'd never take my eyes away from you!

When I look at you,
He is touching me.
I would reach for him,
But who can hold a memory?
And love isn't everything.
That moonlight on the bed will melt away!
Some day!

But you were once that someone
Who I followed like a star!
Then suddenly you changed
And now I don't know who you are!
Or could it be
That I never really knew you from the start?
Did I create a dream?
Was he a fantasy?
Even a memory is paradise for all the fools like me!
Now remembering is all that I can do,
Because I miss him so...
When I look at you.

Marguerite
A scent of roses in her hair,
A silver laugh that plays the air,
A wave of heat, and Marguerite is near you.

We fell like stars.  We're falling still.
We share the dark.  We always will.
Who else but you could lead me to heaven?

That was written in the wind
And it's useless to fight.
Will you be my fallen angel tonight?

Margurite, I thought you knew-
I understand the dark of you.
Give into me...it's time that we were dancing.

The scent of roses fills your hair.
Your silver laughter chills the air.
But oh the heat when Marguerite draws near.

And no one has touched me.
My soul's my own.
Marguerite, you, too,
Walk the night alone.
Come hear me, come near me.
God only knows
No one moves my heart-
But you...come close...

And everyplace is bittersweet
When every face is Marguerite!

I breathe the roses in your hair.
I feel your heat.  I touch the air.
You frighten me...or could it be...I love you?

The moon begins to climb the sky.
The wind will rise, and so will I
To catch the star that's know as Marguerite.

Madame Guillotine
I know the gutter
And I know the stink of the street.
200 years I have pressed
Through this festering heat.
All you beauties who towered above me,
You who gave me the smack of your rod-
Now I give you the gutter,
I give you the judgement of God!

Vengeance victorious!
These are the glorious days!
Women of Paris,
Come gather your bloody bouquets!
Now gaze on our goddess of justice
With her shimmering, glimmering blade.
As she kisses these traitors,
She sings them a last serenade!

Sing!  Swing! Savor the sting
As she severs you-Madame Guillotine!
Slice!  Come, Paradise!
You'll be smitten with Madame Guillotine!

The world may be ugly,
But each man must do what he must.
Give in pretty dear-
I n a year you will be pretty dust.
Now come let our lady possess you
In her breath-taking, hair-raizing bed.
She will tingle your spine
As she captures your heart and your head!

Sing!  Swing!  Savor the sting
As she severs you-Madame Guillotine!
Slice!  Come, Paradise!
Our Delilah will shave you razor clean!

God, when did man lose his reason?
Save me, my God, if you're there!
God, can you not feel the terror
Like a fire in the air?!

Flash!  Slash!  Glisten and gash!
She will ravish you!  Madame Guillotine!
Split!  Madame just bit!
Give her more to bite!  She's a hungry queen!
Sing!  Savor the sting
As she severs you-Madame Guillotine!
Slice!  Come, Paradise!
Hail her majesty: Madame Guillotine!

The Riddle
See the moon slink down in the sky, darling.
Ev'ry dream is a lie, darling.
Life is cold and the game is old.

Just see how dreaming repays you-
You turn and someone betrays you.
Betray him first and the game's reversed!

For we all are caught in the middles
Of one long dangerous riddle:
Can I trust you?  Should you trust me, too?

And we're all alone in this hell.
Ane we all have secrets to sell.
And there comes a day when we sell our souls away.

Here's the one sweet lesson of history:
Ev'ry soul is a mystery.
Faces change.  What you knew grows strange.

And we all have so many faces.
The real self often erases,
With all those lies dancing in our eyes!

And we all are caught in the middle
Of one long dangerous riddle:
Can I trust you?  Should you trust me, too?

Can I run to you?
Are you true to me?
I'll do unto you
As you do to me!
And we slowly learn
Someone has to burn-
Better your than me!

Oh, ev'ry Judas once loved a Jesus!
But oh betrayal will seize us!
And only fools follow golden rules!

We all are caught in the middle
Of one long dangerous riddle
Of who trusts who...
Maybe I'll trust you...
But can you trust me?
Wait and see!

Now When the Rain Falls
Now when the rain falls, it's heavy and gray.
It tumbles and pitches through space.
I can remember when the rainwas soft,
When you kissed the rain from my face.

Now when the wind blows, I run from its touch.
With you, wind was silk on my skin.
People in love walk inside the wind,
Where nothing can hurt you-it holds you too close-
But now I'm outside, looking in.

One day all my world circled about you.
Now when I move without you,
Nothing on earth is the same!

Do you remember the sweep of the rain,
The sound of it strumming the sky?
People in love walk inside that song,
But now when I listen, the melody's changed.
The rain only whispers "goodbye..."

I don't want to cry when I think of you,
But now when the rain falls, I do...

The Creation of Man
Percy:     Peacocks!
Prince:    Sink me!
Percy:     Think ye, Sir,
               How the feathered males love to flaunt
                    those tails!
               Stallions!
Prince:     Zounds, Sir!
Percy:      Hounds, Sir!  Stags!
               Of the goosie and the gander, Sir,
               Which gender is the grander, Sir?
               To render total candor, Sir: The splendor is
                    the male's.

Percy:     Be an example to your sex.
              Give your boot a dapper strap.
Prince:    And it's smarte if your garter has some snap.
Percy:     Cravats should be flonced about our necks.
               Though I do not mean to scrap,
               Any eunuch knows his tunich has to flap!
               Now stripe the shirt!  And pipe the skirt!

Storybook
Listen to me.  I have beautiful dreams I can spin you,
Dreams to linger within you.
Close your eyes and we'll ride my carousel.
I'll sing you stories of lovers whose love used to fill me,
And the lovers who will be.
For, you see, love is one thing I do well.
Come, let's believe love can be just as sweet as it seems.
Let's live on dreams.

In my dreams, such beautiful lovers have found me!
Storybook lovers surround me!
Nothing is real, but I'm flying,
Sighing: Where, where, where is my storybook ending?
Why does my golden pretending
Leave me with nothing to hold...but my dreams.

Oh, is it only in dreams that we find our ideal love?
Are there lovers with real love?
If you know how to feel love, show me how.
Oh, but my prince, if you can't be as sweet as you seem,
I'd rather dream!

In my dreams, such beautiful lovers have found me!
Storybook lovers surround me!
Nothing is real, but I'm flying,
Crying: Where, where, where is my storybook ending?
Why does my golden pretending
Leave me with nothing to hold...but my dreams.

Come and wake me!  Come be the love I can hold now!
Storybook love leaves me cold, now!
Show me the way to stop dreaming!
There is only one perfect storybook ending!
That is the end of pretending!
That is the moment I say: Love me now...

Et sur ma manage, l'amour toujours est chantant.
Pour mes reves, c'est le commencement,
Et je cherche ma fin joyeuse.
Mais la fin de l'histoire ne viens pas tres doucement,
Pour l'histoire, c'est pour faire semblant.
J'embrasse rien que mes reves-seulement reves...