Weill: Lady In The Dark - 1. One Life To Live-Anne Sofie von Otter/NDR-Sinfonieorchester/John Eliot Gardiner

[ti:Weill: Lady in the Dark - 1. One Life to Live] [ar:Anne Sofie von Otter] [al:Weill: Speak Low] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Weill: Lady In The Dark - 1. One Life To Live - Anne Sofie von Otter/NDR-Sinfonieorchester/John Eliot Gardiner [00:12.13]There are many minds in circulation [00:14.66] [00:15.68]Believing in reincarnation [00:17.77] [00:18.36]In me you see one who doesn't agree [00:21.34] [00:22.75]Challenging possible affronts [00:24.88] [00:25.69]I believe i'll only live once [00:28.03] [00:28.60]And i want to make the most of it [00:31.78]If there's a party i want to be the host of it [00:34.42] [00:34.94]If there's a haunted house i want to be the ghost of it [00:38.31]If i'm in town i want to be the toast of it [00:43.70] [00:44.94]I say to me every morning [00:47.50] [00:48.97]You've only one life to live [00:51.95] [00:53.09]So why be done in [00:54.45] [00:55.10]Let's see the sun in [00:56.42] [00:57.07]And gloom can jump in the river [00:59.74] [01:01.27]No use to beat on the doldrums [01:03.80] [01:05.09]Let's be imaginative each day is numbered [01:10.42] [01:10.96]No good when slumbered [01:12.28] [01:12.97]With only one life to live [01:15.13] [01:15.72]Why let the goblins upset you [01:18.77] [01:19.32]One smile and see how they run [01:22.15] [01:22.98]And what does worrying get you [01:25.89] [01:26.84]Nothing the thing is to have fun [01:30.14] [01:30.96]All this may sound kind of hackneyed [01:33.47] [01:34.56]But it's the best i can give [01:37.23] [01:38.07]Soon comes december [01:39.28] [01:39.90]So please remember [01:41.16] [01:41.75]You've only one life to live [01:44.49]Just one life to live [01:47.82] [01:50.95]She says to her every morning [01:53.38] [01:54.52]She's only one life to live [01:57.14] [01:58.07]So why be done in [01:59.21] [01:59.97]Let's let the sun in [02:00.86] [02:01.62]And gloom can jump in the river [02:04.73] [02:05.38]What you collect at the grindstone [02:07.49] [02:08.80]Becomes a millstone in time [02:11.44] [02:12.55]This is my thesis [02:13.75] [02:14.31]Why go to pieces [02:16.37]Step one while you're in your prime [02:18.92]You may say that i'm an escapist [02:21.42] [02:22.29]But i would rather by far be that [02:26.61]Than be a red tapist [02:28.88] [02:29.48]Lead me speed me straight to the bar [02:32.68] [02:33.52]Just laugh at old man repression [02:35.87] [02:37.00]And send him into oblivion [02:39.41] [02:40.74]Then you're the winner [02:41.75] [02:42.43]I'm off to dinner [02:43.46] [02:44.34]I've only one life to live [02:46.56]Just one life to live