I Have Dreamed

I have dreamed that your arms are lovely
 I have dreamed what a joy you'll be
 I have dreamed every word you'll whisper
 When you're close, close to me
 How you look in the glow of evening
 I have dreamed and enjoyed the view
 In these dreams I've loved you so
 That by now I think I know
 What it's like to be loved by you
 I will love being loved by you
 Just sing
 Just sing
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 I have dreamed and enjoyed the view
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 As the roles changed
 And I grew up
 It was inevitable that I would start singing love songs
 And then came Miss Saigon
 A great love story
 Kim falls passionately in love with Chris
 I had never even been in a relationship
 I didn't know what to do
 So, I asked the women in the cast
 I asked the straight men in the cast
 I asked the gay men in the cast to tell me about love
 And their answer was the same:
 "You just know"
 Not helpful
 Next, I went to my mother:
 "Mom, what is it like to be in love?"
 "Hay, naku! When you're with him
 You touch his face, he touches your face!"
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 So, here I was
 Conservative
 Catholic
 Eighteen years old
 Having to do these intense love scenes
 With an actor ten years older than me
 Finally, we're in tech
 And Nicolas Hytner, our director, stops the rehearsal
 At this point in the day, my leading man and I are on stage
 In bed
 Nic tells me to get out of the bed
 And then he gets into the bed
 And then he starts demonstrating
 It was odd
 But I finally understood
 I learned about love watching Nic Hytner
 Get it on with a straight man on stage at the Drury Lane
 Saigon was life-changing
 In so many ways
 As we were developing the show, we went through
 Countless drafts of so many different songs
 One day, you'd fall in love with one song, and then the next day
 It would be gone
 There were so many beautiful songs
 That never made it to the Broadway production
 Here's one that not many people have heard