Take Me to the World

Lyrics

[ELLA, spoken] Do you wanna hear me do my sums? [CHARLES, spoken] Mmm hmm [ELLA, spoken] Two times one is two [CHARLES] Pure as larks singing a cappella [ELLA, spoken] Two times two is four Two times three is— is six! Two times four is eight [CHARLES] Let my poem be your umbrella [ELLA, spoken] Two times five is ten Two times six is twelve Two times— seven is— Please, I've got to concentrate Do you want to hear my sums or don't you? [CHARLES, spoken] Mmm hmm [ELLA, spoken] When you touch me I can't think of anything but you I love it when you touch me Washington, Adams, Jefferson [CHARLES] Très naive, yes, but multi-bella [ELLA, spoken] Madison, Monroe Adams, Jackson, Van Buren Harrison, Tyler, Polk— Charlеs, we— we can't go on like this [CHARLES, spoken] Why not? You'rе happy, aren't you? [ELLA, spoken] I want to hear a bird [CHARLES, spoken] Okay, I'll play you one [ELLA, spoken] I want to see it—on a twig, with leaves [ELLA] Let me see the world With clouds Take me to the world Out where I can push Through crowds— Take me to the world A world that smiles With streets instead of aisles Where I can walk for miles With you Take me to the world That's real Show me how it's done Teach me how to laugh To feel Move me to the sun Just hold my hand Whenever we arrive Take me to a world Where I can be alive [CHARLES, spoken] The world is better here I know, I've seen them both [ELLA] Let me see the world That smiles [CHARLES, spoken] A poet doesn't count for much out there [ELLA] Take me to the world [CHARLES, spoken] We'd be cold and hungry in the winter [ELLA] Somewhere I can walk For miles [CHARLES, spoken] A dark, shabby room with cracked plaster, threadbare prints [ELLA] Take me to the world [CHARLES, spoken] You couldn't get a job, I couldn't hold one [ELLA] With all around [CHARLES, spoken] We'd begin to hate each other [ELLA] Things growing in the ground [CHARLES, spoken] We'd have fights, you'd cry [ELLA] Where birds that make a sound Are birds [CHARLES, spoken] I couldn't bear it if you cried [ELLA] Let me see the world That's real [CHARLES] I have seen the world— [ELLA] Show me how it's done [CHARLES] —And it's mean and ugly [ELLA] Teach me how to laugh To feel [CHARLES] We could laugh together here [ELLA] Move me to the sun [CHARLES] Stay here with me [ELLA] Just hold— [CHARLES] Stay here [ELLA] —My hand— [CHARLES] I love you, Ella [ELLA] —Whenever we arrive [CHARLES] But we're happy here! [ELLA] Let it be a world— [CHARLES] Stay with me [ELLA] —With you Any other world— [CHARLES] Stay with me [ELLA] —Will do Take me to a world Where I can be alive (spoken) Oh Charles, what kind of life is this? [CHARLES, spoken] I make the decisions If I say we stay, we stay [ELLA, spoken] We'll become just like the people here Cold, spindly things that move at night Sometimes I think it's happening to us already [CHARLES, spoken] I'm older and wiser I know what's best [ELLA, spoken] Oh Charles, if you love me at all— [CHARLES, spoken] I love you more than poetry We're getting out tonight There's the ball tonight, that makes it perfect I'll read my ode, it's the first thing on the program And then while everybody's dancing, out we'll go Oh Ella, I'll give you everything [CHARLES] Do you want the world? Well then You shall have the world Ask me for the world Again You shall have the world! A world of skies That's bursting with surprise To open up your eyes For joy [CHARLES & ELLA] We shall see the world Come true We shall have the world I won't be afraid With you— We shall have the world You'll hold my hand And know you're not alone [CHARLES] You shall have the world To keep Such a lovely world You'll weep We shall have the world Forever For our own!