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scene viii "my legs, my skin, how strange, how beautiful ..." - olga neuwirth lyrics

[orlando]
my legs, my skin, how strange, how beautiful…
oh, if i could write about this!

[narrator]
it is a strange fact, but a true one
that up to this moment, she had scarcely given her s*x a thought
so orlando’s start as a woman was the complicated kind
and not to be summed up at a trice

[orlando]
these skirts are plaguey things to have around one’s heels
well, and then there is the hairdresser, that will take an hour…
must i really be chaste year in year out?

[narrator]
a sailor on the mast nearly falls to his death at the sight of her anklеs

[orlando & angel]
you have to be careful
a pox on thеm!
that’s the last oath i shall ever be able to swear

[narrator]
she shall never be able to tell a man he lies in his t**th
or be able to sit among peers
or lead an army, or wear seventy*two different medals on her breast
all she will be able to do, once she sets foot on english soil
is to pour tea, and ask her lords how they like it: “do you take sugar?”
as all orlando’s loves have been women
now, through the culpable laggardry of the human frame
to adapt itself to convention, she utters:
[orlando]
if womanhood means conventionality
slavery and deceit, means denying my love
fettering my limbs, pursing my lips and restraining my tongue
that i would rather turn around with this ship and go back
immediately
oh thank heavens i don’t have to ride a warhorse anymore…

[narrator]
yes. better to leave the rule and discipline of the world to others;
better to be quit of martial ambition
the love of power, and all the other manly desires
if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures
known to the human spirit
which are, contemplation, solitude and love

[orlando]
praise god that i’m a woman!

[captain]
ma’am, the cliffs of england

[orlando]
home…

[chorus]
she lets tears flow
adieu!
[orlando & angel]
to set foot on english soil now as a woman?
for there is no doubt

[narrator[
what will happen?

- olga neuwirth lyrics

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