A Search for Answers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nightingale the Rose"><U><B><IMG SRC="0abad700.jpg" border=0 width="173" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nightingale the Rose"><U><B><IMG SRC="1122f300.png" border=0 width="47" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>OME</B></FONT><B>   </B>|   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Songs"><U><B>Back to Songs</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just A Simple Rose"><U>Just A Simple Rose</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dream Away"><U>Dream Away</U></A>  |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Do They Know?"><U>What Do They Know?</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pick Mine!"><U>Pick Mine!</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Long to Be the Song"><U>I Long to Be the Song</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fly Away"><U>Fly Away</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Of The Rose?"><U>What Of The Rose?</U></A>  |  <B>A Search for Answers</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>A Search for Answers</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <embed src="HTMLobj-208/A_Search_for_Answers.mp3" autostart="false" width="145" height="70">  </B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="#about_the_recording" TITLE="A Search for Answers"><U><I>About the Recording</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <U><IMG SRC="0f47ac80.jpg" border=0 width="122" height="200" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">THE LITTLE GREEN LIZARD</U></div> <div> WE RACK OUR BRAINS FOR REASONS.  </div> <div> WE WANT TO FIND A CAUSE.</div> <div> WHY SQUANDER OUR LIVES</div> <div> WITH "WHY" AFTER "WHY"?</div> <div> WHY ARE WE HERE?  BECAUSE.</div> <div> <I>The lights come up in the girl's house.  The Girl is again seated at the vanity table, looking at herself in the mirror.  She is humming to herself in delight.  The Little Green Lizard hears her and turns to look.  </I></div> <div> <U>THE LITTLE GREEN LIZARD</U></div> <div> Well, at least<I> somebody's </I>happy.</div> <bR> <div> <U>THE GIRL</U></div> <div> HE'LL PICK ME UP AT NINE</div> <div> TO TAKE ME TO THE DANCE.</div> <div> THE NIGHT WILL BE DIVINE,</div> <div> THE MOONLIGHT PURE ROMANCE.</div> <bR> <div> WE'LL ENTER AND MY GOWN</div> <div> WILL SHIMMER ON THE AIR.</div> <div> THE JEALOUS GIRLS WILL FROWN.</div> <div> THE BOYS WILL STOP AND STARE.</div> <div> <U>THE LITTLE GREEN LIZARD</U></div> <div> She knows what she wants, I'll give her that.  What of the other half of our love interest?  The student will become a professor of epistemology.  His books will be so unreadable and his manner so rude that he will become known as one of the great minds of the age.  He will live to ninety and never think of the nightingale again.</div> <bR> <div> THE GOOD AND LOVING SUFFER.  </div> <div> THE CRUEL AND SELFISH THRIVE.  </div> <div> WHY TORTURE OURSELVES?</div> <div> TO LIVE IS TO LIVE.  </div> <div> THAT'S ALL WE ARE: ALIVE. </div> <div> <U>THE GIRL</U></div> <div> OH!  WHAT A NIGHT</div> <div> TONIGHT WILL BE!</div> <div> OH!  WHAT TONIGHT</div> <div> WILL BRING TO ME!</div> <div> A NIGHT FOR SIGHS</div> <div> OF PURE DELIGHT,</div> <div> A NIGHT OF ECSTASY!</div> <bR> <div> WE'LL SWIRL AND THEN WE'LL SWAY</div> <div> AND WHEN IT GROWS TOO HOT,</div> <div> WE'LL STOP AND STEAL AWAY</div> <div> TO FIND A QUIET SPOT.</div> <bR> <div> WHEN NIGHT HAS RUN ITS COURSE--</div> <div> THE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE-- </div> <div> HE'LL ASK, HIS VOICE GONE HOARSE, </div> <div> IF I WILL BE HIS WIFE.</div> <div> <U>THE LITTLE GREEN LIZARD</U></div> <div> In case you're wondering, she <I>will </I>marry the chamberlain's son.  They will grow fat and content and raise a houseful of unattractive, dull, and unremarkably happy children.  I suppose there's a moral to this story.  If there's one thing I've learned about humans it's that you love looking for meaning in the unlikeliest of places.  Well, I'd like to stay but I have flies to catch.  No happy endings for them, either.  So you'll have to sort out the moral yourselves. </div> <bR> <div> THE WORLD IS FULL OF QUESTIONS.</div> <div> OUR ENDS ARE FRAUGHT WITH DOUBT.</div> <div> WHY WORRY OURSELVES</div> <div> TO DEATH ABOUT DEATH?</div> <div> JUST WAIT: WE WILL FIND OUT.</div> <div> <I>The Little Green Lizard exits.  The Girl swirls around the stage as though dancing with an imaginary partner.  The lights go slowly down on her and the dead Nightingale.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Music ©2007 Aaron Alon (ASCAP).  All rights reserved.</div> <div> Lyrics ©2007 Joe Barnes.  All rights reserved.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U> <A NAME="about_the_recording"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></U></B><B><U>About the Recording</U></B></div> <div> This is a studio recording with Angela Mortellaro singing the Girl, Jamie Geiger singing the Little Green Lizard, and the composer at the piano.  Read more about the studio recording <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Studio Recording"><U>here</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>About the Photograph</U></B></div> <div> This is a photograph of Jonathan Colunga, who played the part of The Little Green Lizard in the original Black Box production.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>