Original Broadway Cast - Dance Of The Robe lyrics

t's knowing what they want of me That scares me It's knowing having followed her Must lead It's knowing that each person there Compares me to those in my past Whom I now succeed But how can whatever I do for them now Be enough, be enough Aida, Aida, all we ask of you Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage To ask more, would be selfish But nothing less will do Aida, Aida Your robes should golden Your robes should be perfect Instead of this ragged concoction of thread But may you be moved by it's desperate beauty To give us new life, for we'd rather be dead Than live in the squaller and chain of the slave To the dance, to the dance Aida, Aida, all we ask of you Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage To ask more, would be selfish But nothing less will do Aida, Aida (Dance break) Aida, Aida, Aida, Aida, Aida I know expectations are wild And almost beyond my fulfillment But they wont hear a word of a doubt Or sign of weakness My nigh, on impossible duty is clear But if I can rekindle our ancestors dreams It's enough, it's enough, it's enough, it's enough