Lament Lyrics - Evita (new Broadway Cast Recording) (2 Cds) - The New Broadway Cast Recording

EVA: 

The choice was mine and mine completely 

I could have any prize that I desired 

I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire 

Or else, or else I could choose time 

Remember I was very young 

And a year was a forever and a day 

So what use could fifty, sixty, seventy be 

I saw the lights and I was on my way 

And how I lived, how I shone 

But how soon the lights were gone 

The choice was mine and no one else's 

I could have the millions at my feet 

Give my life to people I might never meet 

Or else to children of my own 

Remember I was very young then 

Thought I needed the numbers on my side 

Thought the more that loved me, the more loved I'd be 

But such things cannot be multiplied 

Oh my daughter, oh my son 

Understand what I have done 

EMBALMERS: 

Eyes, hair, face, image 

All must be preserved 

Still life displayed forever 

No less than she deserved 

CHE (spoken): 

Money was raised and a tomb was built 

A monument to Evita 

Only the pedestal was completed 

And Evita's body disappeared for seventeen years