Flashback Lyrics – Original Broadway Cast of Passion
Singer: Original Broadway Cast of Passion
Title: Flashback
Captain, i cannot thank you enough. your kindness to my cousin has meant a great deal
You have no reason to thank me
Any attention that is paid to her means so much. signora fosca has always had a shortage of friends
My dearest giorgio. i am writing you even though the doctor has forbidden it. what a joy to have someone to whom i can tell my feelings. to share my past. colonel
I was a young man when my parents died, and fosca’s mother and father welcomed me into their house whenever i was on leave
As a child
As a child
She was lonely
I was happy
Hеr parents doted on her
My parеnts doted on me
Beautiful
So sensitive
So beautiful
Careful
Of course
Fosca
To them, she was
A girl as beautiful as you are has to
And so
Be careful
I thought
That i was beautiful
And then she (i) reached the age
Where being beautiful
Becomes the most important thing
A woman can be
An unattractive man
As long as you’re a man
You still have opportunities
Can still have opportunities
Beautiful…
Whereas, if you’re a woman
You either are a daughter or a wife
A woman is a flower
You marry
You’re seventeen
Or you’re a daughter all your life
Now is the hour…
I’d met this nice young man
I’d seen this nice young man
He’d introduced himself
Passing by
At my club
Just below my window
So
Fosca〉
One day
One evening i invited him
He tipped his hat to me
Home
Fosca
I must admit that i was flattered
This is my aunt theresa and my uncle bruno
A count?
From where, if i may ask?
Austria
Austria…
What a beautiful place
Fosca, we have a visitor!
Imagine my surprise
I’d like you to meet a new friend, count ludovic
He was even more handsome up close
I was amazed to see the count take such an interest in my cousin
If i had known you were here, signorina-
“if he had known,” of course he knew
I would have brought you many flowers
If i had known…
You do like flowers?
Yes
I should have known
I’ve seen you at your window
Won’t you stay for dinner?
Do, yes
I’ve watched you every day since i arrived
I had my suspicion
I had no suspicion
I chose not to see
The way you move
The way you gaze at the sky
For love had made me blind
How could i be so blind?
Or what i took for love
Within a month, he had asked for her hand
Signora fosca has been married?
Yes
Austria, count ludovic of austria
I sensed in him a danger
Deception, even violence
I must admit, to some degree
That it excited me
Austria, count ludovic of austria
Once they were married, once he’d received my uncle’s sizable dowry, he traveled a great deal, was unavailable to fosca
He gambled away the dowry. i was forced to go to my parents to borrow from what little savings they had left
Then, one day, as she was coming from market…
Excuse me. you’re the wife of a count ludovic?
Yes
You fool
The man’s a fraud, a fake
The trips he said he had to take abroad
He took them so he could be with me
He calls himself a count, but he’s not
He’s never had a title in his life!
He doesn’t have a title
But he does have a wife
And a child in dalmatia
No, you must be mistaken
Oh, yes
He only wants to bleed you
Until the day he doesn’t need you
I warn you he’ll abandon you
As he abandoned her and me
And countless others, i’ve no doubt
I’m telling you, the man was born without a heart
You fool…
I confronted him with this information, and he made no attempt to deny it
Ah well, at last you know the truth, signorina
But you, as well, must face the truth
I’ve no desire to deceive you anymore
We made a bargain, did we not?
And we got what we bargained for
You gave me your money, i gave you my looks
And my charm and my arm
I would say that more than balances the books
Now it’s done
Where’s the harm?
If women sell their looks
Why can’t a man, if he can?
Besides, the money wasn’t even yours
It belonged to those ridiculous old bores
Your parents
Forgive me, my dear, but though you are no beauty
I fear you are not quite the victim you appear
Well, let us part by mutual consent and be content
And so, good luck and goodbye
I must go
Oh, and yes, we haven’t paid the rent
Since july
Just so you know…
I returned home to find my parents impoverished and in poor health
Fosca’s health failed
A woman’s like a flower
She began to suffer her first convulsions. my aunt and uncle nursed her as best they could
A flower’s only purpose is to please
I spent months looking for the man
Beauty is power
By then, of course, he’d vanished
Longing, a disease
To this day, i dream of finding him and realizing my revenge
My father died not long thereafter
How could i be so blind?
I couldn’t face the world
It took her many months to leave her bed
It took me months to leave my bed
When her mother died, she had nothing, really. no one
And so, i went to stay with my cousin, who in some way felt responsible for my circumstances
Why could i not admit the truth?
How could i not have seen through the veneer?
I told myself
“as long as she seems happy, why interfere?”
Or was i just relieved to know
That somebody would want her for a wife?
In war, you know the enemy
Not always so in life
The enemy was love
Selfishness, really, but love
All of us blinded by love
That makes everything seem possible
You have to pay a consequence
For things that you’ve denied
This is the thorn in my side
As long as you’re a man
You’re what the world will make of you
Whereas, if you’re a woman
You’re only what it sees
A woman is a flower whose purpose is to please
Beauty is power, longing, a disease
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