Written in the Stars

Aida
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 and wonder what befell 
The someone you once loved so long ago so well 

Radames
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?
Or some God's experiment 
In which we have no say?

In which we're given paradise 
But only for a day 

Aida
Marry the Princess Radames, you can help my people this could be our chance to do something important. Don't you see?

Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide 
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide 

Radames
Oh you are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied 
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned 

Radames and Aida
What it is to be in love
And have that love returned 

Aida
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?

Radames and Aida
Or some God's experiment 
In which we have no say?

In which we're given paradise 
But only for a day