Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi - Phil Willmott

The stars are calling out our name
It’s Liverpool’s time again
At last the world is waking.
Shout the news across the sky
Tonight it’s you and I
Who’ll choose the road we’re taking.
For tonight
If we dream
The world will dream along with us.
We waited long enough, now is the right time.
If we fail then we fail but at least we chose to fight
Don’t waste tonight’s
Once in a lifetime.
BACK ON THE ROOF JO AS YOUNG ALICE BUSTLES BACK TO THOMPSON.
JO AS YOUNG ALICE: Right, just what the bloody hell do you think you’re
playing at, mister? Our whole street looked up to you. The first one of us to
get out, the first one of us to go to university. When you won that
scholarship it was like it was for all of us. How dare you throw all that away
–
THOMPSON: Shut up.
JO AS YOUNG ALICE: (FURIOUS) You what?
THOMPSON: Sorry, I mean just be quiet, just for a minute. Listen.
MUSIC OUT THEN BRING IN PULSE, BUILD
JO AS YOUNG ALICE: I can’t hear anything.
THOMPSON: No? I don’t believe that. We’re high above Liverpool in the
moonlight on a perfect clear midnight. Do you really want to waste this
moment fighting? The city’s spread out before us like gems on a bed of black
velvet, so beautiful it takes your breath away and in the silence -
GENTLY AT FIRST
The stars are calling out our name
It’s Liverpool’s time again
At last the world is waking.
Shout the news across the sky
Tonight it’s you and I
Who’ll choose the road we’re taking.
For tonight
If we dream
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