We all lead such elaborate lives wild ambitions in our sights How an affair of the heart survives days apart and hurried nights Seems quite unbelievable to me
I don´t want to live like that seems quite unbelievable to me I don´t want to love like that I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free
We all live in extravagant times playing games we can´t all win Unintended emotional crimes Take some out, take others in
I´m so tired of all were going through I don´t want to live like that I´m so tired of all were going through I don´t want to love like that I just want to be with you Now and forever , peaceful, true This may not be the moment
to tell you face to face But I could wait forever for the perfect time and place
AIDA & RADAMES We all lead such elaborate lives We don´t know whose words are true Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives Hard to know who´s loving who
AIDA Too many choices tear us apart I don´t want to live like that
RADAMES Too many choices tear us apart I don´t want to love like that I just want to touch your heart
May this confession
RADAMES & AIDA Be the start
(They kiss. The lights fade out. When the lights come up they are in each other´s arms.)
RADAMES Are you cold?
AIDA You could have at least kept a blanket.
RADAMES No. I could not. Man enters this world naked, without possessions. I want to
be a new man for you, Aida. Cleansed of my past sins.
(Drums sound from offstage.)
AIDA What is it?
RADAMES My armies have returned. Pharaoh will expect a victory celebration. Go back to the palace. You´ll be safe there. (He gets up and puts his shirt back on. He begins to walk away and then turns back.) Wait, take my amulet. If anyone stops you, show them this and they´ll let you pass.
(He starts to leave again.)
AIDA I love you.
RADAMES I heard that. Say it again. I command you. I command...
(SOLDIER enters.)
SOLDIER Captain!
(AIDA turns her face away from the SOLDIER.)
RADAMES
I heard the drums.
SOLDIER But we have captured the Nubian King!
RADAMES The king? You have taken him alive? Find out which men are responsible for this. I´ll see they receive the highest honors. Tell the others I´m on my way.
SOLDIER Yes, Captain.
RADAMES (He sees AIDA is upset by the news.) Aida, our countries are at war. I can´t change that.
AIDA But he´s my...He´s my king.
(AIDA begins to cry as RADAMES exits.)
ACT ONE Scene Twelve THE NUBIAN SLAVE CAMP
She leaves him. RADAMES realizes what he´s done - and hates himself for it. A crowd of Nubians appear and circle AIDA. The light changes and we are at the Nubian Slave Camp.
NEHEBKA Princess - say it´s not true!
MALE NUBIAN #1 I saw our king dragged through the streets with my own eyes.
FEMALE NUBIAN #1 I heard they´ve already executed him.
MALE NUBIAN #2 And they are carrying his head through the street on the end of a spike.
AIDA No, No!
MEREB Amonasro of Nubia is alive. I saw him taken to the prison.
NEHEBKA But it´s only a matter of time before the Egyptians slaughter him.
MALE NUBIAN #1 I always imagined that your father would march upon Egypt in triumph. But now we have no hope. When the king dies - so does Nubia.
AIDA Nubia will never die! Whether we are enslaved or whether we are far from our native soil, Nubia lives in our hearts. And therefore, it lives.
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