Next Time / I Wouldn't Go Back

Man 2
 She's at your door are your eyes deceiving you?
 Your life takes off and there's not retrieving you
 Then there's the door that shuts as she's leaving you
 Doors
 Last night my dream collapsed around my ears
 But that's no reason to go round in tears
 I'll start another dream this minute, without her in it
 And next time, the stars will sing to me
 Next time, the girl will cling to me
 Next time, like perfect lovers we'll be
 This time, i planned it badly,
 But i'll do better next time
 Next time, next time.
 Yet we began in such a perfect way
 And strings of next times won't make one today
 What dream is worth the fight to win it
 If she's not in it?
 Others
 For next time can't be as sweet or as tenderah. Ah. Ah...
 Or promise half of the splendour
 That this time promised to me
 Next time is self deception
 What i want now is this ah. Ah. Ah...
 This time, this time... This time the stars will sing to me
 This time my love will cling to me
 Next time
 All
 Like perfect lovers we'll be
 Man 2 others
 Next time is self deception ah. Ah. Ah...
 What i want now is this time ah. Ah. Ah...
 And somehow
 I'll have i'll have, i'll have, i'll have
 Next time next time, next time, next time
 All
 Now!!
 Everyday another door!
 Menwomen
 Everyday another
 Everyday another
 Everyday another
 Everyday another
 Everyday another
 Everyday another door
 Woman 2
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 In front of me now is an open door
 I'm moving ahead not sure of the way
 And yet there's a light that i'm heading for
 Now if someone had said to me a year ago
 That i would take the trip i'm taking now
 I would have said, "you're crazy,
 I'll be better off right here"
 But here i am, amazed to find
 That i can turn and walk right through the door
 And what is more
 I wouldn't go back, i wouldn't go back
 As strange as i feel i simply couldn't go back
 I'll never go back where i was before.
 Men women
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 The person i was
 I've hidden myself
 Is a stranger now
 In some real safe places
 Man 1
 Don't know what's ahead
 Woman 1
 Don't know where i am
 Man 2
 Or where i must go
 Woman 2
 But now for a change
 Menwomen
 But when the time comes
 I'm here
 I'll get through somehow
 Facing empty spaces
 Now if someone had said to meif someone said a
 A year agoyear ago
 That i might never have a
 Love at allthat i might never have a love at all
 All
 I would have said "you're crazy"
 I'd have burst right into tears
 But hear i am prepared to face the person here in me i never knew
 And said it's true
 And i wouldn't go back
 I wouldn't go back
 As scared as i am i simply couldn't go back
 Whatever i held onto once is through
 Well
 Womenmen
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 Well, wha'd'ya know?
 The universe shakes
 The firmament spins
 The ground is above
 The sky is below
 I'm feeling the barriers crumble and fall
 I'm not even sure where
 I'm heading at all
 All
 I'm moving ahead and i'm gaining a pace
 And i'm flying through time
 And i'm out into space
 If someone told me even just a week ago
 That i would feel the way i feel right now
 I would have said "impossible, not in a million years!"
 Men
 But here i am amazed to find i've turned my back on all i was before
 All
 And closed the door
 And i wouldn't go back, i wouldn't go back
 For once and for all i know i couldn't go back
 I'll never go back, ever go back
 Not to where i was before.
 Next time, like perfect lovers we'll be
 Men women
 Next time, this time
 The man will sing to me
 Next time
 The man will cling to me
 Somehow
 All
 I'll have,
 I'll have,
 I'll have,
 I'll have
 Next time,
 Next time,
 Next time,
 Next time.
 Now!!