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Memory

**Lines in italics sung by Jemima. Those in bold italics sung simultaneously by both Grizabella and Jemima. Lines in brackets taken from the original London cast recording and have since been cut.**

End of Act One -

Silence (Midnight), not a sound from the pavement

Has the moon lost her memory,

She is smiling alone

In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet

And the wind begins to moan.

Every street lamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning

Someone mutters and the street lamp gutters, and soon it will be morning.

Memory. All alone in the moonlight

I can smile at the old days

I was beautiful then.

I remember the time I knew what happiness was,

Let the memory live again.

After "Mr. Mistoffelees" -

Daylight. See the dew on a sunflower

And a rose that is fading, roses wither away

Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn

I am waiting for the day.

Reprise/End of Act Two -

(Moonlight; turn your face to the moonlight,

Let your memory lead you,

Open up, enter in,

If you find there the meaning of what happiness is

Then a new life will begin.)

Memory. Turn your face to the moonlight,

Let your memory lead you,

Open up, enter in,

If you find there the meaning of what happiness is

Then a new life will begin.

Memory. All alone in the moonlight.

I can smile at the old days

I was beautiful then.

I remember the time I knew what happiness was,

Let the memory live again.

Burnt out ends of smoky days, the stale cold smell of morning

A street lamp dies, another night is over, another day is dawning.

Daylight. I must wait for the sunrise

I must think of a new life

And I mustn't give in.

When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too

And the new day will begin.

Sunlight through the trees in summer

Endless masquerading

Like a flower as the dawn is breaking

The memory is fading

Touch me, it's so easy to leave me

All alone with my memory

Of my days in the sun.

If you touch me you'll understand what happiness is

Look, a new day has begun.


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