Album: West Side Story

Somewhere



A GIRL:
There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us.
Time together and time to spare,
Time to look, time to care
Some day!
Somewhere
We'll find a new way of living,
Will find there's a way of forgiving
Somewhere...
There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're halfway there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow...
Some day...
Somewhere...

PROCESSION AND NIGHTMARE
(The lovers hold out their hands to each other,
the others follow suit - Jets to Sharks;

Sharks to Jets and form a sort of procession.)

ALL:
There's a place for us...

(Suddenly there is a dead stop. The figures of Riff
and Bernardo slowly walk on. The dream becomes a
nightmare: as the city returns, there are brief
reenactments of the knife fight, of the deaths Maria
and Tony are once again separated from each other by the
violent warring of the two sides. Maria tries to reach
Bernardo, Tony tries to stop Riff; the lovers try to
reach each other but cannot. Chaotic confusion and
blackness out of which they find themselves back in the
bedroom, clinging to each other desperately.)

TONY:
Hold my hand and we're halfway there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there

TONY and MARIA:
Somehow...
Some day...
Somewhere!
(They sink back together on the bed.)