Album: Light in the Piazza Soundtrack

Octet

Priest:
Et quatenus masculinum et feminam sese mutuo complent

Clara:
Et quatenum masculinus

Priest:
No. Et quatenus masculinum.

Clara:
Et quatenus masculinum

Priest:
Si! Bene.
Ecco.

Clara/Priest:
Et quatenus masculinum
Et femininam sese mutuo complent
Unitas duorum

Signora:
You can almost hear what everyone's feeling

Signor/Franca:
The shock of winter
Or coming on of spring
New spring

Franca:
Suspended summer nights
The inner flights
That only fall can bring

Signor/Signora/Franca:
I am suddenly alive
I would sail across the world
For just the color of your eyes

Fabrizio/Franca/Singor/Singora:
You appear, appear to me
Unam carnem
Vir et mulier
Simul creati, creati
Voliti sunt a deo ut alliis pro alio

Clara/Priest:
Aliis pro alio

Priest:
Alliis, alliis!

Clara:
Olly olly oxen free!

Margaret:
The reappearing
Every now and then

Priest:
Che ha detto?

Clara:
Sorry

Clara/Priest:
Os ex ossibus meis
Et caro de carne mea

Fabrizio/Franca/Signor/Signora/Margaret/Clara:
And then
The diving underneath
The diving down
And surfacing again

Signora/Franca:
I am suddenly alone

Signor/Signora/Franca:
Hmm...

Clara/Priest:
Vitam humanam

Signora/Signor/Margaret/Fabrizio/Franca/Giuseppe:
I would sail across the world
To know the harbor of your arms

Clara/Priest:
Non est bonum esse hominem solum

All:
You appear
Appear to me

Clara:
Mulier quam deus excosta efformat
De viro sublata quamque
Ipse ad virum adduxit
Admirationis ex parte viri provocat clamorem
Amoris et communionis exclamationem
Hey!

(Franca kisses Fabrizio on the lips provocatively, to infuriate Giuseppe. Clara sees)

Clara:
You stop!
You stop right now!
You move! You move away from him!
Oh, I see you stealing

Margaret:
Darling, you

Clara:
You! You're a theif!
You're a rotten theif!
You want to steal him away from me!

Margaret:
Franca's merely

Clara:
You stand over there!

Margaret:
He's her brother

Clara:
He is mine! He'll always be mine!

Margaret:
Clara, you mustn't speak to Franca that way, she's family now!

Clara:
No!
I will!
She can't!
He's mine!
You're not in charge of me!
Why? Because I say so!

Margaret:
Please don't

Clara:
No!
You saw!
And I know you saw
Her kiss him like he kisses me!
Go ahead and stare!
Jesus this is so unfair!

Fabrizio:
She's joking

Clara:
Joking? I'm not joking!
You love me
You love me
Why were you just sitting
Sitting there!

Now. Here is your husband
Here is your wife
You should be standing side by side
Don't you have a house?
Where are your babies?
There's a way to behave
There's a nice way to behave
It's what nice people do and that's how it should be
That's how people meet and fall in love and how it should be
Forever
You go near him one more time
You're dead!

All:
Ah...
Ah...
Ah...

The shock of winter
The coming on of spring
That melting air
The sun gone red
An empty bed
A scent, a sound, a gesture triggering
I am suddenly alive
I am suddenly alone
Knowing I will be alone till I can be alone with you
That is what you do
You appear, you appear