(::CLARA::)
I'm so happy,
I'm afraid I'll die
Here in your arms
What would you do
If I died
Like this -
Right now,
Here in your arms?
That we ever should have met
Is a miracle
(::GIORGIO::)
No, inevitable -
(::CLARA::)
Then inevitable, yes,
But I confess
It was the look --
(::GIORGIO::)
The look?
(::CLARA::)
The sadness in your eyes
That day
When we glanced
At each other in the park
(::GIORGIO::)
We were both unhappy
(::CLARA::)
Unhappiness can be seductive
(::GIORGIO::)
You pitied me...
(::BOTH::)
How quickly pity leads to love
(::CLARA::)
All this happiness
Merely from a glance
In the park.
So much happiness
So much love --
(::GIORGIO::)
I thought I knew what love was
(::CLARA::)
I wish we might have met so much sooner
I could have given you --
(::GIORGIO::)
I thought I knew what love was
(::CLARA::)
-- My youth
(::GIORGIO::)
I thought I knew how much I could feel
(::CLARA::)
All the time we lost...
(::GIORGIO::)
I didn't know what love was.
(::CLARA::)
I've never known what love was.
(::GIORGIO::)
But now --
(::CLARA::)
And now --
(::BOTH::)
-- I do.
It's what I feel with you.
The happiness I feel with you.
(::CLARA::)
So much happiness --
(::GIORGIO::)
You are so beautiful...
(::CLARA::)
-- Happiness by chance in a park.
(::GIORGIO::)
Not by chance,
By necessity --
(::CLARA::)
Surely, this is happiness -
(::GIORGIO::)
- by the sadness that we saw in each other.
(::CLARA::)
- no one else has ever felt before!
(::BOTH::)
Just another love story,
That's what they would claim.
Another simple love story -
Aren't all of them the same?
(::CLARA::)
No, but this is more,
we feel more!
(::BOTH::)
This is so much more!
(--Smiling at each other--)
Like every other love story.
Some say happiness
comes and goes.
then this happiness
is a kind of happiness
No one really knows.
(::GIORGIO::)
I thought I knew what love was.
(::CLARA::)
I'd only heard what love was.
(::GIORGIO::)
I thought it was no more than a name for yearning.
(::CLARA::)
I thought it was what kindness became.
(::GIORGIO::)
I'm learning -
(::CLARA::)
I thought where there was love there was shame.
(::GIORGIO::)
- that with you -
(::CLARA::)
But with you -
(::BOTH::)
- there's just happiness.
(::CLARA::)
Endless happiness ...
(::spoken::) What?
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) Not now ...
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) Tell me ... please.
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) I received my orders from headquarters.
I've been transferred to the Fourth Brigade.
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) When?
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) I leave in five days. Clara, don't look so sad.
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) You're the one that makes me happy.
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) We'll make the most of the next four days.
I'll steal as much time as I can. Then after I leave,
we'll write to each other ever day.
We'll make love with our words.
You'll be with me ever day, Clara.
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) I must go. I'm expected.
(::GIORGIO::)
God, you are so beautiful.
I love to see you in the light,
Clear and beautiful, memorize
Every inch,
every part of you
to take with me.
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) Giorgio...
(::GIORGIO::)
Your feet so soft,
As if they'd never touched the ground.
(::CLARA::)
(::spoken::) I must go ...
(::GIORGIO::)
Your skin so white, so pure, so delicate.
Your smell so sweet, your breathe so warm.
I will summon you in my mind,
I'm painting you indelibly on my mind.
(::CLARA::)
Let me go ...
(::GIORGIO::)
We must fill every moment.
(::CLARA::)
All this happiness ended by a word in the dark.
(::GIORGIO::)
Oh my love, oh my darling ...
(::CLARA::)
So much happiness wasn't meant to last.
(::GIORGIO::)
I am here,
I am with you
I am yours.
(::CLARA::)
I never knew what love was.
(::GIORGIO::)
Your skin,
your silken hair ...
(::CLARA::)
I always thought I didn't deserve it.
(::GIORGIO::)
Your breasts, your lips ...
(::CLARA::)
I didn't know what love was.
(::GIORGIO::)
I want you every minute of my life ...
(::CLARA::)
I don't know how I'll live when you're gone!
(::GIORGIO::)
I will always be here.
(::CLARA::)
I don't know how I'll live ...
Giorgio ...
Don't leave me ...
(::COLONEL::)
(::spoken::) Thank you Lieutenant.
(::DOCTOR::)
(::spoken::) How was "Rigoletto"?
(::TORASSO::)
(::spoken::) Terrible. These touring companies get no better.
(::LOMBARDI::)
(::spoken::) Nor do you.
(::TORASSO::)
(::spoken::) I sing to lighten the weight of your cooking.
(::BARRI::)
(::(--spoken--) (--examining his plate--)::) Sergeant, what is this?
(::LOMBARDI::)
(::spoken::) It's veal.
(::BARRI::)
(::spoken::) Again? We had veal four days ago.
And from the looks of it, it was this veal.
(::LOMBARDI::)
(::spoken::) Lieutenant Barri, if I hear -
(::RIZZOLLI::)
(::spoken::) Colonel, I've heard a rumor that the King is
about to sign a treaty with the French.
(::DOCTOR::)
(::spoken::) Really?
(::COLONEL::)
(::spoken::) I've heard no such rumor, Major.
(::DOCTOR::)
(::spoken::) Where did you come by this information?
(::RIZZOLLI::)
(::spoken::) In town.
(::COLONEL::)
(::spoken::) You can't believe everything you hear in a whorehouse.
(::RIZZOLLI::)
(::spoken::) That is where Garibaldi got much of his information, sir.
(::DOCTOR::)
(::spoken::) Ah, so that's why you go there!
(::COLONEL::)
(::spoken::) Ah, Captain Bachetti. Welcome.
We wondered when you were going to arrive.
May I introduce Doctor Tambourri, Major Rizzolli ...
(::TORASSO::)
(::spoken::) Lieutenant Torasso.
(::BARRI::)
(::spoken::) Lieutenant Barri.
(::LOMBARDI::)
(::spoken::) Sergeant LOMBARDI
(::BARRI::)
(::spoken::) Our cook.
(::COLONEL::)
(::spoken::) Come. Come and join us.
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) Could you post this one for me?
(::LOMBARDI::)
(::spoken::) You'll have to excuse our rather limited menu,
Captain.
It's difficult to grow vegetables in this mountain soil.
(::DOCTOR::)
(::spoken::) We're a bit isolated here, Captain.
Not only from anything green and edible,
but also from life and ideas.
(::RIZZOLLI::)
(::spoken::) I just add vinegar to everything
(::TORASSO::)
(::spoken::) Captain Bachetti, the COLONEL has been telling
us of your triumphs pinning down the Russian infantry.
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) I'm not sure that my actions worried your attention.
(::TORASSO::)
(::spoken::) Come, come. Didn't you rescue a wounded man
in the midst of fire and then carry him on your horse to camp?
(::GIORGIO::)
(::spoken::) Only to our battalion.
(::BARRI::)
(::spoken::) Say you brought him back to camp!
Why settle for being half a hero when full-fledged
is just a white lie away?
