(Elton John/Tim Rice)



I am here to tell you we can never meet again

Simple really, isnt it, a word or two and then

A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when

You think of me, or speak of me, or wonder what befell

The someone you once loved so long ago, so well



Never wonder what Ill feel as living shuffles by

You dont have to ask me and I need not reply

Every moment of my life from now until I die

I will think or dream of you and fail to understand

How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand



Is it written in the stars

Are we paying for some crime

Is that all that we are good for

Just a stretch of mortal time



Is this Gods experiment

In which we have no say

In which were given paradise

But only for a day



Nothing can be altered, oh, there is nothing to decide

No escape, no change of heart, no any place to hide

You are all Ill ever want but this I am denyin

Sometimes in my darkest thoughts I wish I never learned

What it is to be in love and have that love returned



Is it written in the stars

Are we paying for some crime

Is that all that we are good for

Just a stretch of mortal time



Is this Gods experiment [Gods experiment]

In which we have no say [In which we have no say]

In which were given paradise [If only for a day]

But only for a day



[Is it written in the stars]

[Are we paying for some crime]

[Is that all that we are good for]

[Just a stretch of mortal time]



Is this Gods experiment [Gods experiment]

In which we have no say (In which we have no say)

In which were given paradise (Given paradise)

But only for a day