Alain Boublil - Room 317 lyrics

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Alain Boublil - Room 317 lyrics

[KIM] Good evening, maam [ELLEN] Don't turn the bed yet [KIM] I'm not the maid [ELLEN] What do you want then? [KIM] They must have written the room number wrong I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott Three-seventeen, oh I'm sorry... unless Well, you must be, of course, you're John's wife, are you not? [ELLEN] Oh God, I see It had to happen You must be Kim Chris went to find you Please come inside No one will hurt you I'm Chris's wife My name is Ellen In a way, I am glad I am meeting you first Understand, you were only a name till tonight I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were reversed Please won't you sit down [KIM] Tell me you are lying [ELLEN] We've been married a year, I am sorry, it's true [KIM] He said he'd come to get me [ELLEN] He says he tried to reach you, but what could he do? [KIM] Please tell me you're not married You don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here [ELLEN] You don't know how he needed a new start [KIM] I feel walls in my heart Closing in I can't breathe I can't win [ELLEN] As for the child You say it's Chris's [KIM] Oh yes, Madame My son is Chris's I had a dream for my son to belong Not live his life in the streets like a rat [ELLEN] We aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load Chris and I are totally together on that [KIM] Then you must take Tam with you [ELLEN] Take a child from his mother, impossible! Kim - [KIM] You will take Tam with you Then he'll get what I wanted for him [ELLEN] But Kim, your child needs you Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own [KIM] Tam's chance lies with you now, not with me [BOTH] No! Can't you see It won't work It can't be [KIM] If you're saying that because you've Made him change his mind Chris must go away and leave Me and his son behind If you're saying that because My husband has another wife My child has no future, like the dust of life He must come tonight to my place Tell me so to my face [ELLEN] I don't want this I didn't come here To meet a girl Who loves my husband I came here to help, but what do I do? Now, after this, what do I -