Music and Lyrics
The music is by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics are the work of Richard Stilgoe. The song is in E flat major in most productions, with the exception of Broadway, where it was in F major.
The English language lyrics always start with;
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- It's time to choose between the two of them
- I'd better make a start
- Someone help me make up my heart
- Tell me how to make up my heart
The German version being far from a translation;
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- Weiß nicht, für wen ich mich entscheiden soll (I don't know on whom I should decide)
- Mit einem muß ich gehn (I have to go with one of them)
- Dies Gefühl kann keiner verstehn (This is a feeling no one can understand)
- Ich kann mich selbst nicht mehr verstehn (I can't understand it myself)
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