PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): I’m savoring my first and last taste of freedom Before getting married next week to a total stranger...
ERIKA (SPOKEN): At least you’re not an indentured servant.
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): Indentured servant?
ERIKA: If I'd like to have my breakfast hot Madame Carp will make me pay And I have to fetch the eggs myself And the barn's a mile away It's cold and wet and still I get An omlette on my plate But in my head I'm back in bed Snuggled up and sleeping late
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): Really?
ERIKA (SPOKEN): Really, but it’s alright. I mean, I’m used to it. And you?
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): Well...
ERIKA (SPOKEN): Well?
PRINCESS ANNELIESE: If I want some eggs I ring the bell And the maid comes running in And she serves them on a silver tray And she brings a cookie tin And while I eat, she rubs my feet And strolling minstrels play But I'd rather be in my library reading science books all day
ERIKA: I'm just like you
PRINCESS ANNELIESE: You are?
ERIKA: You're just like me There's somewhere else we'd rather be Somewhere that's ours Somewhere that dreams come true Yes, I am a girl like you
You'd never think that it was so But now I've met you and I know It's plain as day, sure as the sky is blue That I am a girl like you
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): So! You’re a singer?
ERIKA (SPOKEN): No, I work at Madame Carp’s penitentiary, uh, I mean Dress Emporium.
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): I love Madame Carp’s Dresses!
ERIKA (SPOKEN): I made the one you’re wearing.
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): You made this? The design looks so complicated!
ERIKA (SPOKEN): Oh, but it isn’t really...
ERIKA: First I choose a fabric from the rack And I pin the pattern down And I stitch it in the front and back And it turns into a gown
PRINCESS ANNELIESE: I wear the gown, without my crown And dance around my room
BOTH: And imagine life without the strife of an unfamiliar groom
PRINCESS ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): But I’d never let my Mother know. I wouldn’t want to disappoint her.
ERIKA (SPOKEN): I completely understand.
PRINCESS ANNELIESE & (ERIKA): I'm just like you (I think that's true) You're just like me (Yes, I can see)
BOTH: We take responsibility
PRINCESS ANNELIESE & (ERIKA): We carry through (We carry through)
BOTH: Do what we need to do Yes, I am a girl like you
ERIKA & (PRINCESS ANNELIESE): I'm just like you (I'm just like you) You're just like me (You're just like me)
BOTH: It's something anyone can see
ERIKA & (PRINCESS ANNELIESE): A heart that beats (A heart that beats)
BOTH: A voice that speaks the truth Yes, I am a girl like you!
SCHEDULE MAN (SPOKEN): Oh! We’re late, late, late! We have 20, maximum 22 minutes, for your royal fitting. And then it’s move, move, move to your speech at the historical society! After that we have to rush, and I mean rush, to the horticultural society for tea. Ugh... Then there's your math lessons, your geography lessons, your science lessons...
ANNELIESE: All my life I've always wanted To have one day just for me Nothing to do and for once nowhere I need to be With no lessons, lords, or lunches Or to-do list in the way No one to say when to eat or read or leave or stay That would be the day
ERIKA: All my life I've always wanted To have one day for myself Not waking up with a pile of work on every shelf With no hems in need of pressing And no sleeves in disarray No wedding gown with a thousand stitches to crochet And no debt to pay
ERIKA (SPOKEN): Huh! Madame Carp!
MADAME CARP (SPOKEN): What do you think I’m running here, a cabaret?
ERIKA (SPOKEN): I would have said a debtor’s prison.
MADAME CARP (SPOKEN): Keep laughing, you’ll be working for me for another 37 years.
ERIKA (SPOKEN): But I already paid off more then half!
MADAME CARP (SPOKEN): But there’s interest isn’t there? Your parents should have thought of that before they borrowed so much.
ERIKA (SPOKEN): They did it to feed me!
MADAME CARP (SPOKEN): Their mistake.
ERIKA: What would it be like to be
PRINCESS ANNELIESE: What would it be like to be
ERIKA: Free
PRINCESS ANNELIESE: Free
Free to try crazy things
ERIKA: Free from endless IOU's
ANNELIESE: Free to fly
ERIKA: Free to sing
ANNELIESE: And marry whom I choose
QUEEN (SPOKEN): I’m so sorry, my darling, but as you know it is vital that you marry King Dominic. It is the only way to take care of our people.
ANNELIESE (SPOKEN): I know, it’s my duty.
QUEEN (SPOKEN): Ah! And look another engagement gift!
ANNELIESE: You would think that I'm so lucky That I have so many things I'm realizing that every present comes with strings
ERIKA: Though I know I have so little My determination's strong People will gather around the world to hear my song
WOMAN: Can I come along?
ANNELIESE: Now I fear I'll never be
ERIKA: Soon I will forever be
BOTH: Free
I close my eyes and feel myself fly a thousand miles away I could take flight but would it be right My conscience tells me stay
ANNELIESE: I'll remain forever royal
ERIKA: I'll repay my parent's debt
BOTH: Duty means doing the things your heart may well regret
ANNELIESE: But I'll never stop believing
ERIKA: She can never stop my schemes
BOTH: There's more to living than gloves and gowns and threads and seams In my dreams I'll be free