Special: Aida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_XHTzc6lag

This musical made me cry. I sobbed so hard I had to leave the auditorium and wait in the bathroom until the pain subsided.

Why?

It reminded me of Katie, and of me.
Me:
Aida:
It's knowing what they want of me that scares me
It's knowing having followed that I must lead
It's knowing that each person there compares me
To those in my past whom I now succeed
But how can whatever I do for them now
Be enough
Be enough

Nubians:
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!

Nehebka:
You robe should be golden, your robe should be perfect
Instead of this ragged concoction of thread
But may you be moved by its desperate beauty
To give us new life for we'd rather be dead
Then live in the squalor and shame of the slave
To the dance!
To the dance!

Nubians:
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you

All we ask is a lifetime of
Service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish
But nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!

Nubians:
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!

Aida:
I know expectations are wild and almost
Beyond my fulfillment but they won't hear
A word of a doubt or see signs of weakness
My nigh on impossible duty is clear
If I can rekindle my ancestors' dreams
It's enough
It's enough

Aida: It's enough

Nubians: Aida!

Nubians:
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!

Aida: It's enough
Nubians: Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah,ah

And of course, Katie:
Mereb:
There is a time
there is a place
When love should conquer all
The rest of life is pushed aside
as truth and reason fall
But only if that selfishness
can lead to something good
I thought I knew you princess
But I never understood
I don't know you
I don't know you


Mereb dies for Aida. Aida goes after the handsome Egyptian Captain.




I wouldn't. Really, I even have a Captain. R could have escaped into the handsome countryside, Mereb too; and I would have died there.


Die for love, always, Mereb.