Featuring: Adam Pascal Heather Headley
Songwriter: Tim Rice Elton John
Producer: Walt Disney Records
[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, spoken]
Marry the princess, Radames. You can help my people, this could be our chance to do something important! Don't you see?
(sung)
Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
[RADAMES]
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
[BOTH]
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
[BOTH]
Or some god's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day
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, spoken]
Marry the princess, Radames. You can help my people, this could be our chance to do something important! Don't you see?
(sung)
Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
[RADAMES]
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
[BOTH]
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
[BOTH]
Or some god's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day
Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- How I Know You (reprise)
- The Past Is Another Land
- Radames’ Letter
- Fortune Favors The Brave
- Every Story Is A Love Story
- My Strongest Suit
- Like Father, Like Son
- Every Story Is A Love Story (Reprise)
- How I Know You
- My Strongest Suit (Reprise)
- Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise)
- Dance of the Robe
- Enchantment Passing Through
- Another Pyramid
- A Step Too Far
- I Know the Truth
- The Gods Love Nubia
- Elaborate Lives
- Written in the Stars (Broadway)
- Easy As Life
- Not Me
- Elaborate Lives (Reprise)
- Your Song
- Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Tiny Dancer
- Bennie and the Jets
- I’m Still Standing
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight (End Title)
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Candle in the Wind
- Daniel
- Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting)
- Crocodile Rock
- I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues
- Candle in the Wind 1997
- Sacrifice
- Levon
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight
- Border Song
- Honky Cat
- The One
- The Bitch is Back
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Electricity (Billy Elliot)