Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil - Woman lyrics

[Grania, sung] Woman I am born What does "woman" mean? Must my dreams face scorn Held back and unseen If I long for fire Must it stay unreal? Can I not desire? Am I not to feel? If I ache to taste Am I not to try? If my heart says, "sail" Why should I deny? I have my dreams I have made plans I see horizons wide as a man's Must I be nothing till I'm some man's wife? Look at this face Does it deceive? Do I look made to milk and to weave? I will be damned to Hell if that is my life! (spoken) Blasphemy–I know, forgive me! But I won't take it back! I won't! [TIERNAN, spoken] I understand you! Somehow I never pictured you knitting [GRANIA, sung] I'm almost your age I'm your match in size I'm as sk**ed with swords And equal in most eyes But when you have a dream And you're caught in its grip You can climb aboard a ship You can, you can, for you're a man! You can reach toward that place Where the earth meets the sky Fight a battle, be brave, be true If you can do it, why not I? I'm meant to fly Sail unrestrained Why is man free and woman chained? Is that my epitaph before I die? I should be free Free to be Grace So I can feel the wind on my face! And when life beckons, I should go Face out the storm, not stay below Am I to be just woman? No, not I!