This Is New

Lyrics

[RANDY] With you I used to roam Through the pleasure dome of Kubla Khan I held you tight, my love In the gardens of old Babylon I lost you through the centuries I find you once again And find myself the luckiest of men This is new I was merely existing This is new And I'm living at last Head to toe You've got me so I'm spellbound I don't know If I am heaven- or hell-bound This is new Is it Venus insisting That I'm through With the shadowy past? I am hurled Up to another world Where life is bliss And this is new [ENSEMBLE] Ooh [LIZA] Ah [ENSEMBLE, spoken] Go on [LIZA, spoken] I can't remember any more [ENSEMBLE, spoken] What's worrying you, Liza? [LIZA, spoken] I don't know [ENSEMBLE, spoken] What are you afraid of? You should be happy [ENSEMBLE] Every woman wants to be married And this is the eve of your wedding day What are you thinking of? [LIZA, spoken] How curious! How very curious! Of all the things I could be thinking of at this moment A little school play I acted in as a child keeps running through my mind I was to have been the princess, but I wasn't I don't remember why [ENSEMBLE] We are listening [LIZA, spoken] It was called "The Princess of Pure Delight"