Quartet: There's a Man (Transition)

Last night I dreamed I walked through the maze to Lily's garden And saw Lily and Mary standing there Mary standing right there, in Lily's garden I turned away; I couldn't watch them I was afraid Why won't he say what he wants? Why must he speak in dreams? Why can't he see what he wants? To disappear, it seems! He should send this haunted girl far away Leave the house and lands to me! I watched them walk around the garden She stood tall, grown strong and bold Then they turned and asked my pardon I couldn't speak, my heart grown cold Why can't he see what he wants? He wants the past undone! Why can't he know what he wants? He's losing battles won To have ever loved her Never known how complete a loss can be If she could disappear, he'd start again And live like other men, he could be happy then If she'd disappear, he could be free Cut off from pain and loss A bit like me You can't marry this Archibald! He's a gloomy miserable cripple who hides himself away In that horrible house! He can't believe you love him and neither can I! No one is asking for your approval, Rose! Lily, think about your children Do you want your children to be crippled as well? I will marry him! I can arrange what he wants (Don't do this!) He's left it all to me (Don't wed him!) Now he can have what he wants (Don't bed him!) Unfettered he will be (Don't do this) Set him free to wander (Set him free) Through the world Let him go His lonely way! Then I longed to join them Know the peace they feel (Now that I love him) Their journey done Then I woke once more without them (I will live for him) Knew I must wander on and on (Live just to love him) I go (I won't forgive you!) (Won't see you live there!) Life to find! (Lily, I swear I'll never see you!) Just to disappear (Do what you will, then) Is to be free! (I'll never leave him!) Cut off from pain (Cut off from pain) Cut off from pain (Cut off from pain) I'll help him disappear! (Now you must leave him!) He'll start again! (Yes, you must leave him) And if I go to them (Yes, you must leave him!) He could be happy then (Lily, promise!) Just to disappear is to be free (Yes, you must leave him) You must believe! Disappear! I will wed and bear him children (Lily, think about the children) He will love me, love the children (Lily, think about the children) I shan't be gone long Perhaps just til the autumn And Mary? I'll write her a note from Paris Now I'll go look in on Colin Just see that you don't wake him In ten years, have I ever awakened the boy? There's a man who no one sees There's a man who lives alone There's a heart that beats in silence for The life he's never known