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ODESSA;

Indeed, it's unfair

The way we are chained to what is expected from us

MARIA;

Either deprived from our lust or not giving enough

Oh those fools

LILLIAN;

"The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another."

MARIA & ODESSA;

Why is it so that we can't be ourselves in here?

Remember to smile and nod

Sit and stay and try to please - "Good girl"

The key, the one we are thinking of...

Why is it so that we can't be ourselves in here?

Remember to smile and nod

Thinking of that key, and each confirming...

We are making the prison real

MARIA;

Often labelled, told what to do

Expectations forced upon you

Play according to someone else's rules on their tune

ODESSA & MARIA;

Either friend or foe in a duel

Maybe saint, perhaps a sinner too

Nymph washed up ashore

Or simply a Madonna or a whore

ODESSA, MARIA & CHOIR

We are what we choose to be

Or what we were assigned to be

Eventually what we agree

We are what we choose to be

We're neither nor Madonna or whore,

Your room decor,

Yet always excluded from your party

LILLIAN & CHOIR;

Anything but free

It is dangerous

Indeed, if we try to make it independently

Alternatively

Running out from there, do you see?

Out there, without fear as ourselves, simply as "me"