WRITTEN IN THE STARS
By: Elton John and Leann Rimes
Written by: Elton John and Tim Rice
 
(MALE)I am here to tell you, 
We can never meet again.
Simple really, Isn't it?
A word or two and then,
A lifetime of not knowing
Where or how, or why or when.
You think of me, or speak of me,
Or wonder what befell,
The someone you once loved so long ago, so well.
 
(FEMALE)Never wonder what I'll feel
As living shuffles by.
You don't have to ask me, and I need not reply.
Ev'ry moment of my life, from now until I die,
I will think, or dream of you,
And fail to understand,
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand.
 
(BOTH)Is it written in the stars?
Are we paying for some crime?
Is that all that we are good for?
Just a stretch of mortal time?
Is this God's experiment?
In which we have no say?
In which we're given paradise,
But only for a day?
 
(MALE)Nothing can be altered,
Oh, there is nothing to decide.
No escape, no change of heart,
Nor anyplace to hide.
(FEMALE)You are all I'l ever want,
But this I am denied.
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts,
I wish I never learned
What it is to be in love, and have that love returned.
 
(BOTH)Is it written in the starts?
Are we paying for some crime?
Is that all that we are good for?
Just a stretch of mortal time?
Is this God's experiment?
In which we have no say?
In which we live in paradise, 
But only for a day?