Tim Rice - Lament - Original Cast Recording/1979 lyrics
Artist: Tim Rice
album: Evita (Highlights)
The choice was mine, and mine completely
I could have any prize that I desired
I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire
Or else, or else I could choose time
Remember I was very young then
And a year was forever and a day
So what use could fifty, sixty, seventy be?
I saw the lights, and I was on my way
And how I lived, how they shone
But how soon the lights were gone
Oh, my daughter! Oh, my son!
Understand what I have done
Eyes, hair, face, image
All must be preserved
Still life displayed forever
No less than she deserved.
Money was raised to buld a tomb,
A monument to Evita.
Only the pedestal was completed,
And Evita's body disappeared
For seventeen years.
I could have any prize that I desired
I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire
Or else, or else I could choose time
Remember I was very young then
And a year was forever and a day
So what use could fifty, sixty, seventy be?
I saw the lights, and I was on my way
And how I lived, how they shone
But how soon the lights were gone
Oh, my daughter! Oh, my son!
Understand what I have done
Eyes, hair, face, image
All must be preserved
Still life displayed forever
No less than she deserved.
Money was raised to buld a tomb,
A monument to Evita.
Only the pedestal was completed,
And Evita's body disappeared
For seventeen years.
Other albums by the artist
Jesus Christ Superstar (Original Broadway Cast: 1971)
1971 · compilation
Evita
1979 · compilation
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Pillars
2015 · EP
Songs of Cricket
2011 · album
I Don't Know How To Love Him
1970 · single
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