Elaborate Lives
 
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Performed by Adam Pascal and Heather Headley
 
 
Radames
We all lead such elaborate lives
Wild ambitions in our sights
How an affair of the heart survives
Days apart and hurried nights
Seems quite unbelievable to me
I don't want to live like that
Seems quite unbelievable to me
I don't want to love like that
I just want our time to be
Slower and gentler, wiser, free
  
We all live in extravagant times
Playing games we can't all win
Unintended emotional crimes
Take some out, take others in
I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to live like that
I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to love like that
I just want to be with you
Now and forever, peaceful, true
  
This may not be the moment to tell you face to face
But I could wait forever for the perfect time and place
  
Aida & Radames
We all live such elaborate lives
We don't know whose words are true
Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
Hard to know whose loving who

Aida
Too many choices tear us apart
I don't want to live like that

Radames
Too many choices tear us apart
I don't want to love like that
I just want to touch your heart
May this confession

Aida & Radames
Be the start