Next Time / I Wouldn’t Go Back

Lyrics

[MAN 2] She's at your door Are your eyes deceiving you? Your life takes off And there's no retrieving you Then there's the door that shuts As she's leaving you Doors... Last night my dream collapsed around my ears But that's no reason to go 'round in tears I'll start another dream this minute Without her in it And next time, the stars will sing to me Next time, the girl'll cling to me Next time, like perfect lovers we'll bе This time I planned it badly But I'll do bettеr Next time, next time, next time Yet we began in such a perfect way And strings of next times don't make one today What dream is worth the fight to win it If she's not in it? For next time can't be as sweet or as tender Or promise half of the splendor That this time promised to me Next time is self-deception What I want now is this time, this time [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1, MAN 2 & MAN 3] This time [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 3] The stars will sing to me This time my love will cling to me [MAN 2] This time [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1, MAN 2 & MAN 3] Like perfect lovers we'll be [MAN 2, WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] Next time (Next time) is self-deception [MAN 2] What I want now is this time And somehow [MAN 2, WOMAN 1, MAN 1, WOMAN 2 & MAN 3] I'll have (I'll have) (I'll have) (I'll have) Next time (Next time) (Next time) (Next time) [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] Now! Every day another door [WOMAN 2 & MAN 2, MAN 1, WOMAN 1] Every day another (Every day another) Every day another (Every day another) Every day another [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] Every day [WOMAN 1, MAN 1 & MAN 2, WOMAN 2] Another door (Well) [WOMAN 2] Whaddaya know? Well, whaddaya know? In front of me now Is an open door I'm moving ahead Not sure of the way And yet there's a light That I'm heading for Now if someone had said to me a year ago That I would take the trip I'm taking now I would have said, "You're crazy, I am better off right here" But here I am amazed to find That I can turn and walk right through that door And what is more I wouldn't go back I wouldn't go back As strange as I feel I simply couldn't go back I'll never go back where I was before [MAN 2] Well, whaddaya know? [WOMAN 1] Well, whaddaya know? [MAN 1] Well, whaddaya know? [WOMAN 2] Well, whaddaya know? [MAN 2] The person I was [WOMAN 1] I've hidden myself [MAN 2] Is a stranger now [WOMAN 1] In some real safe places [MAN 1] Don't know what's ahead [WOMAN 2] Don't know where I am [MAN 1] Or where I must go [WOMAN 2] But now for a change [MAN 1] But when the time comes [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] I'm here [MAN 1] I'll get through somehow [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] Facing empty spaces [MAN 1 & MAN 2, WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] Now if someone had said to me A year ago (If someone said a year ago) That I might never have a love At all (That I might never have a love) I would have said, "You're crazy" (At all) [WOMAN 1] I'd have burst right into tears [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] But here I am prepared to face The person here in me I never knew And say, "It's true" And I wouldn't go back I wouldn't go back As scared as I am I simply couldn't go back Whatever I held onto once is through Well [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] Whaddaya know? [MAN 1 & MAN 2] Well, whaddaya know? [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] Well, whaddaya know? [MAN 1 & MAN 2] Well, whaddaya know? [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] The universe shakes [MAN 1 & MAN 2] The firmament spins [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] The ground is above [MAN 1 & MAN 2] The sky is below [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] I'm feeling the barriers crumble and fall [MAN 1 & MAN 2] I'm not even sure where I'm headed at all [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] I'm hurling ahead And I'm hitting a pace And I'm flying through time And I'm out into space If someone told me even just a week ago That I would feel the way I feel right now [MAN 1 & MAN 2] I would have said, "Impossible" [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2] "Not in a million years" [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] But here I am amazed to find I'd turn my back on all I was before And close the door And I wouldn't go back I wouldn't go back For once and for all I know I couldn't go back I'll never go back Ever go back Not to where I was before Next time like perfect lovers we'll be [MAN 2] Next time [MAN 1] Next time [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] Next time (But this time) [WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2, MAN 1, MAN 2] The man will sing to me (This time) (Somehow) The man will cling to me (Somehow) [MAN 2] I'll have [WOMAN 1] He'll have [MAN 1] I'll have [WOMAN 2] I'll have [MAN 2] Next time [WOMAN 1] Next time [MAN 1] Next time [WOMAN 2] Next time [WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1 & MAN 2] Now!