Elisabeth
I won't be a prisoner
Your doll of propriety
I won't be a portrait
Of your high society
For no one can decide whom I can be
My life belongs to me
If I wish for freedom
Who'll tell me that can't be done
No army or kingdom
Can win me what must be won
The right to decide whom I can be
My life belongs to me
If you try to tame me
Your care I will shun
I'll flee to the warmth of my spring
If you try to lame me
I'll rise like the sun
And fly like a bird on the wing
You ask for my silence
To do what I know is wrong
I'll shatter your silence
And fill it with this same song
That says what I know must always be:
My life belongs to me
No gossip, no leering
No whispers behind your back
No judgment, no sneering
Just courage to end the act
I'm more than the dupe they make of me
My life belongs to me
If you wish to keep me
Your love's not enough
I can't compromise on my right
And if I must falter
As falter I must
I'll rise like the lark and take flight
I'll be with you always
I'll live and I'll die with you
But I can't be bounded
I cannot belong to you
You may praise me or blame me
Accept me or disdain me
My life belongs to me!
To me!
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Elisabeth: The Musical
FanfictionIn the mysterious underworld, Italian assassin Luigi Lucheni is forced to relive his murder of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, whose tragic life he narrates. Free-spirited Sisi's life is utterly changed when she marries her cousin, Franz Joseph, and...
