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1. Apparition - 5:42
2. Aria
for Italy - 0:49
3. With
Father - 1:48
4. Reins
of Tuscan - 5:49
5. Reproach - 1:11
6. Mona
Lisa - 7:11
7. Il
Divino - 3:22
8. Inundation
8. Apprentice - 6:56
9. First
Commission - 3:47
10. Mother
of God - 1:06
11. This
Time, This Way - 6:05
12. Inventions - 5:13
13. Shaping
the Invisible - 4:54
14. Introduction
to Francois I - 1:20
15. Heart
of France - 5:57
16. Sacrament - 1:11
17. End
of a World - 2:12
Apparition
(Instrumental)
Aria for Italy
(Instrumental)
With Father
Leonardo: A pointed bell tower paints the sky
The great dome waits, impatient am I
Ser Piero: The countryside that was your home
could never teach you the things of Rome
Leonardo: The lure of Florence calling me
Leonardo & Ser Piero: A crucial moment we both shall see.....
Leonardo: With an end of childhood facing me
Father traveled near the Arno, lush today
He paused, but did not see
I wish these trips with father
could last all day
Whether in the pouring rain or summer sun,
Here in Vinci I can not stay
But as I recall, he will not claim in me
a son, with birthright true
My questions end;
With father, was my birth much more....
Leonardo & Ser Piero: ...than just a sin?
Reins of Tuscan
Lorenzo: No bastard children run this city of gold
We've held the reins of power for generations told
I am "Lorenzo The Magnificent" Medici
Our law does not allow for your nobility
I must insist all doors of consequence close
No son of Caterina or any peasant should know
Professions and fame found in Tuscany
The halls of wisdom we walk in universities
Chorus: Look at this renaissance, you'll see
Big time dynasties
Taking advantage, taking tax
With brute strength to enforce their acts
Lorenzo & Caterina: Our families torn -
What can we do with Leonardo?
Lorenzo & Ser Piero: Surely there could be a scandal here
Why not give Caterina a new life on her own?
With a husband we'll pay
on `deception day'
We should seek intervention from above
Chorus: Amen.
Amen.
Lorenzo & Ser Piero: Will God forgive us......
Chorus: .....Lorenzo?
Lorenzo: You might try science, literature, or the arts
A patronage to live might be a start
But now the guild of magistrates and notaries
have chosen not to include the youngest DaVinci
If Leonardo had a richer blood line
I'd ask him over
serve up my finest wine
The middle class have no place in this society
In our cathedrals, the law, or even industry
Chorus: Look at this renaissance, you'll see
big time dynasties
Taking advantage, taking tax
with brute strength to enforce their acts
Leonardo: You say a loser I am destined to be
Your firstborn, Leonardo of Vinci!
Chorus: Look at this renaissance, you'll see
big time dynasties
taking advantage, taking tax
with brute strength to enforce their acts
Leonardo: Look at this renaissance, you'll see
.......Tuscan policies.
Lorenzo & Ser Piero: Our families torn -
What have we done to Leonardo?
Surely there could be repentance here
Why not give Caterina forgiveness in our hearts?
Lorenzo, Ser Piero & Caterina: But the day is
too late and the damage done
Leonardo, we'll keep you in our prayers
Chorus: Amen.
Amen.
Lorenzo & Ser Piero: Will God forgive us....
Chorus, Ser Piero & Caterina: ....Lorenzo?
Reproach
(Instrumental)
Mona Lisa
Leonardo: She takes things serious
She always has
She makes me look inside myself
like I never have
She seems to laugh at me
She seems to stare
Her presence mocking me
But behind her mask she cares...
She knows the child in me
She knows the man
She treats my weakness
like a power in her hands
Somehow-
She knows humanity
She understands
The essence of this life
is a prize she must demand
Her pain in this portrait makes
the fleeting smile she takes
become so real
She's still got time for me
Even though I'm not a noble one
She can see in my soul
I can't bring her back
I can't see her anymore
Chorus: Sinner and saint
The Mona Lisa
Which was the best with Mona Lisa?
Melzi: Bright as the sun
See her mourning for no one
Leonardo: And she was my Italy
in this fifteenth century
Melzi: Beauty inviting reaction
Seduction, a sign of doom
Desolate, grandiose
Her black veil smiling through it all
Verrocchio: Will you ever finish her in time?
Chorus: Why can't we see the Mona Lisa?
Melzi: Did you meet her in Milan?
A 'patron' of your work?
Chorus: We want to see the Mona Lisa ...
Oh Leonardo, won't you show us?
Stop holding out-
frustrating us, Leonardo
Leonardo: Stop, she's mine
I said she's mine
Of course I was her 'only one'
Now that she's dead and gone
Stop your vile inquiries,
Disrespecting me
I said stop right there
`I had to be her only one'
But now I'm finding out
She lived a lie
Deceit was rampant long before she died
I wish I'd known this then
She never cared
This truth is shocking me
I've become aware
She saw my suffering
She knew it well
My grief would comfort her
She'd just say that all was well
And now her words make sense to me
I'm sad to say
Caterina: `Your road to hell is paved....
good intentions led the way.'
Melzi, Verocchio, Ser Piero, Caterina:
Wake up, Leonardo 'cause it's over now
And she's gone for good
Nothing you can say about it now
Nothing you can do.
Chorus: Leonardo.
Melzi, Verrocchio, Ser Piero, Caterina:
Look up here, Leonardo
because all is well
So get over it
Nothing you can say about it now
Nothing you can do
Chorus: Who told you life was fair?
Did you believe her then?
Melzi, Verrocchio, Ser Piero, Caterina:
Wake up here, Leonardo
'cause it's over now
And she's gone for good
Nothing you can say about it now
Nothing you can do
Chorus: Who told you life was fair?
Did you believe her then
Now that it's done
Let it go, let it end
Leonardo: Wake up, everybody
because I'm ok
Melzi: So let's drop it right here
Leonardo: there's nothing I need to say
Melzi: ....about it now
Leonardo: There's nothing I want to do
Couldn't care less
Couldn't care less
I could not care less
couldn't care, I said
I could not care less....that's all.'
Il Divino
(Instrumental)
Inundation
(Instrumental)
Apprentice
Students: We're here to learn
from the aged master.
An education..... experience.
To see the universe in a way
To "feel the universe"
A new apprentice is arriving today
We don't want the boy from Vinci
to be here showing us,
telling us.....
Leonardo: "What you see, I can already see"
Chorus: Leonardo - Notebooks full of design
Verrocchio: Masterpiece and invention !
Chorus: never finished in time
Melzi: One day this absolute man......
Chorus: from his circle of mirrors will give....
Melzi: His own gift to the ages -
Melzi & Verrocchio: Leonardo....
Students: Our renaissance is a marriage -
art and science
A science of art
Will DaVinci learn will `his' universe?
...in a way to paint this universe?
Verrocchio: Goldsmith, artist, engineer
Sculpture, mathematics, optics and mechanics
Salai: Philosophy....
Melzi: A genius of the anatomy
Chorus: Leonardo - Canvas covered with light
Verrocchio: Painting Christ with precision
Chorus: John The Baptist divine!
Salai: Jealous, the teacher admits....
Chorus: that his protege surpassed him
and must ........
Verrocchio, Melzi, & Salai: stand alone
as a master -
Verrocchio: Leonardo.......
Leonardo: I should leave for Milan now....
I've had enough here
I can't take this
I've been accused of crimes
"I'm not sacred"
Your honor, give me names
of the accusers in my desperate hour
Tell me, where are they now?
I want names. I want names.
Court: "They're anonymous"
Leonardo: I want names!
Court: "But they're anonymous"
Leonardo: I've got to clear my name
My name, now !!!
On your decision I base all fear
I've been arrested, now my fate rests here
How long must I wait for an answer?
With my impatience
I can't take this
Was my defense a case of just politics?
I stand acquitted, but should be `committed'
in this desperate hour
I'd like to thank you for absolutely nothing
Excuse me for being rude
But my time has come, I'm gone
I'm overdue for that trip to Milan now....
Chorus: Leonardo - Notebooks full of design
Verrocchio: Masterpiece and invention!
Chorus: never finished in time
Salai: One day this absolute man....
Chorus: from his circle of mirrors will give.....
Melzi: his own gift to the ages....
Chorus: Leonardo -
Canvas covered with light
Verrocchio: Painting Christ with precision
Chorus: John The Baptist divine!
Salai: Jealous, this teacher admits....
Chorus: that his protege surpassed him and must.....
Verrocchio, Salai, & Melzi: stand alone as a master......
Caterina: Leonardo!
First Commission
Calco: Portrait of a mystery
She holds her pose for all to see
Deep within there was no sin
A gift to last for centuries
Caterina: She wore no crown of jewels
to give a touch or say a word
It's the pain she knew
that made her human
Calco: Now thirty years
have come and gone
He has this work
to call his own
Caterina: In dreams, nothing flows faster than the years
Calco: But Mary speaks... and calls him home
Caterina: "How little time it takes
to understand our fellow man...
Calco: How little time it takes
to be a human"
Calco & Caterina: I understand
Now I can see her clearly.......
Calco: No call to arms
will sound today
These great empires
will praise her sight
A wisdom finds
this place and time
My Il Divino's
gift.... `divine'.
Caterina: She wore no crown of jewels
to give a touch or say a word
It's the pain she knew
that made her human
Calco: I understand.
"How little time it takes
to understand our fellow man...
Caterina: How little time it takes
to be a human"
Calco & Caterina: How little time
it takes when we forgive
we learn to live
It's the love that it takes
Calco: to be a human....
Caterina: It's the love that makes us.
Mother of God
(Instrumental)
This Time, This Way
Leonardo: Calling out to you
I know you're listening
I've spent the last year in Milan
I haven't heard from you
Did my letters make it there?
I need to ask you, is something wrong?
Mona Lisa: My friend, I will say this good
and loud, "everything's all right"
I can't wait till I get back there
If I could, I would leave tonight
Leonardo: This time I'm afraid to say it
This time there won't be words
This time, this day
I want our love a `different way'
Have you ever felt that way before?
This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
that you've always known this day
would come....
This time, this day
I want our love a `different way'
Have you ever felt that way before?
Mona Lisa: It's what you hope to learn
But you'll never find the soul
`The rule and limits of everything'
You've reached the threshold
of our human experience-
Divinity has drawn a veil
My friend, I will say this good and loud
`everything's all right'
I can't wait till I get back home
If I could I would leave tonight
Are you listening? Think I'll leave tonight.
Duet: This time, this way
You know the answer, so you say
We have always known this day would come
Let's just admit it now....
This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before?
This time, this way
You know the answer so you say
Have you ever felt this way before?
This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before?
This time, this way
You know the answer so you say
Have you ever felt this way before?
This time, this day
I'd like to be there when you say
Have you ever felt this way before
This time, this way.......
Inventions
Calco: Weapons of war, Cities and states
Feeding the renaissance, a deadly fate
Where is the man
kings and lords have called?
He makes inventions he makes them all
Weapons of war they just waste time
They give us jobs and they kill us fine
Don't take this wrong-
DaVinci hates the war.
His innovations
could bring us so much more....
Sforza: My Leonardo,
I've heard that we disagree
This angers me
Have you forgotten
Who I really am?
Leonardo: Now you sound like the Medici.
Sforza: Let me make something
perfectly clear
`Il Divino'....
Sforza & Calco: If you value your life
You might want to hear
what I'm saying-
Sforza: I'm not playing games here
Leonardo
Sforza & Calco: This may be your
best chance
......It may be your only one
Leonardo: What can I say?
I'll do it this time.
I'll do what you want one more time.
Hear what I say
This is the last time
Inventions of war will be mine.
What can I say?
I'll do it this time.
I'll do it for you one more time-
one more time.........
What can I say?
I'll do it this time.
I'll do what you want one more time.
Hear what I say
This is the last time
Inventions of war will be mine.
Verrocchio: Weapons of war
In the future I see
will kill us all with humanity
Power or peace? The fight never ends
making mistakes and making amends
Calco: Weapons of war, wasting our time
They make us money, and they kill us fine
Tell me what score, will be settled then?
'cause if you're dead
know one cares if you win
Do you hear me? !!!!!
Melzi: Will, do you, Leonardo?
Sforza: Don't preach to me
I've heard all this talk before
Just between the two of us
You may be right
Now there's nothing I can do
here to help him out
He must stand alone...
......my `absolute man'.
Leonardo: What can I say?
I'll do it this time.
I'll do what you want
one more time.
Hear what I say
This is the last time
I'll do it for you one more time
....one more time
What can I say?
I'll do it this time.
I'll do what you want
one more time.
Hear what I say
This is the last time
Inventions of war will be mine......
One last time!
Shaping the Invisible
Leonardo: I come before you now
uttering simple phrases alone
but no one is listening
Hear what I'm saying
This song is so much more
than just a reason to pass the time
or to entertain, pardon me but it's not a game
blasphemous it's a shame
'cause what we have here is a miracle
A gift from a hand that we can not see
By the way, your reaction here was predictable
because you don't know the invisible
Compared with art you see
These fleeting moments of sound are gone
Yes, gone forever
You won't remember the work for you I made
This aria I play today
condemned by your silence
A silence louder than the earth
so deafening that it hurts, now for the record:
You've witnessed something that's a miracle
You've heard Leonardo shape the invisible
Somehow for the time I feel all is possible
But I know it's temporary,
this fragile bond that we've shared
Because what we have here is a miracle
A gift from a hand that we can not see
By the way, your reaction here was predictable
because you don't know the invisible
I am shaping the invisible
What you've witnessed here is a miracle
You've seen Leonardo shape the invisible
Somehow for the time I feel all is possible
But I know it's temporary, this fragile bond
So hear this now:
'Cause I refuse to remain a negative stat,
just a casualty
There's an order to the chaos
There's a reason, even when
I have so much to say here
'cause it's a part of me
I'm shaping the invisible
with the tools of the trade
like a fool on parade
It's over, it's over now,
it is over, over-now that it's over
I want to make a last ditch effort
to persuade you that I haven't wasted time
Still reeling from your token judgments
condescending, ending
We're all pretending hard
to be the `only one'
But you can't be the only one......
Does your highness realize
I'm a little too good at the game
for you to patronize?
Know you're not the only one that matters now.....
Introduction to
Francois I
(Instrumental)
Heart of France
Francois I: The master speaks above the crowd
He made his mark upon the proud
Salai: Will France prevail upon the crown
to let him stay among us now?
Melzi: Imagine all we'll learn from this
`disciple of experience'
Chorus: Grant us my lord, approval at last
Let us embrace him, our Leonardo....
Francois I & Melzi: I have ambitious
plans for him
He will help me design the royal residence
while we're conversing on everything
that he learned
How he tried all of his years
Then, `let his well-filled day bring sleep'
Melzi & Salai: I can't watch this happen here
in the heart of France
Please end his suffering
and grant him peace at the end
for the heart of France
Then, `let his well-filled day bring sleep'
Francois I: In the heart of France!
Leonardo: Francois, come close
My time is drawing near
My eternity hangs in the balance
I've got to confess here
I will soon know
the blue of our heavens,
the origins of the earth
Leonardo & Melzi: Would there
still be time with religion on this
death bed for my last will, last rites?
Chorus: Here in the heart of France.....
Francois I & Melzi: Fear not!
I will stay here to the end
in the heart of France
All I can do now
is pray for a place of peace
for your immortal soul
Submit now, just release
You'll open this earthly veil....
and you will be on the other side
But in spirit you will always remain
deep in the heart of France.
Francois I, Melzi, & Salai: Leonardo,
deep in the heart of France.
Leonardo!
Deep in the heart,
Deep in the heart of France
Deep in the heart of France.
Deep in the heart of France.
Chorus: Deep in the heart of France.
Leonardo: Dear God,
I repent
I confess
I'm a child unto thee
Through thy grace
bring this son home.... ..
(Leonardo takes his last breath)
Melzi: `Leonardo'!
(a shouting whisper in desperation,
recognizing Leonardo is dead)
Sacrament
(Instrumental)
End of a World
Chorus & Entire Cast (Leonardo's own
words sung in both English & Italian):
`Amore sol la mi fa remirare,
la solmi fa sollecita'
(translation: `Only love makes me
remember, it alone stirs my heart.')
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