A Trip to the Library - Jane Krakowski.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick
[00:01.267]Ritter：I didn't know what to do or where to go,
[00:04.584]and somehow,
[00:05.760]my feet started walking down the street,
[00:08.346]across the bridge,
[00:09.469]past the Metropol Cinema,
[00:11.011]and do you know where？
[00:12.291]Sipos：Where？
[00:13.466]Ritter：Right into a library.
[00:15.373]Sipos：The library？
[00:16.418]Ritter：Can you imagine？
[00:18.351]Sipos：How did you like it？
[00:19.605]Ritter：Oh,you've never seen such a place.
[00:23.314]So many books！ (hhhhh
[00:26.449]And so much marble.
[00:28.460]And so quiet.
[00:30.289]Ritter：
[00:30.733]And suddenly,all of my confidence,
[00:32.300]dribbled away with a pitiful plop.
[00:36.245]My head was beginning to swim.
[00:37.420]And my forehead was covered with cold perspiration.
[00:41.704]I started to reach for a book.
[00:42.984]And my hand automatically came to a stop.
[00:47.060]I don’t know how long I stood frozen.
[00:48.444]A victim of panic and mortification.
[00:52.258]Oh,how I wanted to flee.
[00:56.960]When a kindly voice,
[00:59.912]a gentle voice,
[01:01.610]whispered,”Pardon me.”
[01:04.614]Sipos：Oh,”Pardon me.”
[01:06.103]Ritter：
[01:06.704]Uh-huh~
[01:08.898]And there was this dear,sweet,clearly respectable,
[01:12.947]thickly-bespectacled man,
[01:15.324]who stood by my side.
[01:16.917]And quietly said to me,
[01:19.216]“Ma’am,don’t mean to intrude,
[01:23.161]but I was just wondering,
[01:25.668]are you need of some help？”
[01:27.889]I said”No..Yes,I am~”
[01:33.453]Oh~
[01:34.158]The next thing I know,
[01:35.987]I’m sipping hot chocolate,
[01:38.181]and telling my troubles to Paul.
[01:41.264]Whose tender brown eyes,
[01:43.249]kept sending compassionate looks.
[01:47.637]A trip to the library.
[01:50.642]Has made a new girl of me.
[01:53.750]For,suddenly,I can see.
[01:56.937]The magic of books！
[02:03.546]I have to admit,in the back of my mind.
[02:05.427]I was praying he wouldn’t get fresh.
[02:08.875]And all of the while,I was wondering.
[02:10.730]Why an illiterate girl should attract him.
[02:14.126]Then,all of a sudden,he said,
[02:15.771]I couldn’t go wrong,with “The Way Of All Flesh.”
[02:19.846]Of course,it’s a novel,but I didn’t know.
[02:21.675]Or I certainly wouldn’t have smacked him.
[02:24.183]Well,he gave me a smile that I couldn’t resist.
[02:30.060]And I knew at once how much I liked this,
[02:35.363]optometrist.
[02:37.479]Sipos：Optometrist？
[02:38.367]Ritter：
[02:39.046]Op-to-me-trist.
[02:41.084]You know what this dear,sweet,
[02:43.487]slightly-bespectacled gentleman said to me next？
[02:47.380]He said he could solve this problem of mine.
[02:51.272]I said,”How~“
[02:53.623]He said,If I’d like,
[02:55.295]he’d willingly read to me,
[02:57.985]some of his favorite things.
[03:00.127]I said,”When~”
[03:03.236]He said,”Now.”
[03:06.449]His novel approach seemed highly suspicious.
[03:10.498]And possibly dangerous,too.
[03:12.744]I told myself,
[03:13.789]”Wait！Think！Dare you go up to his flat？“
[03:19.040]What happens if things go wrong？
[03:21.992]It’s obvious he’s quite strong.
[03:28.575]He read to me all night long.
[03:32.780]Now,how about that？
[03:36.464]It’s hard to believe how truly domestic.
[03:41.087]And happily hopeful I feel.
[03:43.700]I picture my Paul there,reading aloud as I cook.
[03:50.387]As long as he’s there to read,
[03:53.966]there’s quite a good chance,indeed.
[03:57.335]A chance that I’ll never need.
[04:00.653]To open a book.
[04:04.650]Unlike someone else.
[04:08.490]Someone I dimly recall.
[04:12.826]I know he’ll only have eyes for me.
[04:17.162]My optometrist，
[04:19.278]Paul！
[04:21.786]【END】