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Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Daniel Everidge, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
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“Rewrite the Stars” was the third promotional song to be released before The Greatest Showman premiered. It is the eighth song overall on the soundtrack.
The song is an aerial duet between two of the characters: Philip Carlyle, a rich, white man, and Anne Wheeler, a poor, African-American girl. The...
[Verse 1: Zac Efron]
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
I know you want me
So don't keep sayin' our hands are tied
You claim it's not in the cards
And fate is pulling you miles away and out of reach from me
But you're here in my heart
So who can stop me if I decide that you're my destiny?
[Chorus: Zac Efron]
What if we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine?
Nothing could keep us apart
You'd be the one I was meant to find
It's up to you and it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
So why don't we rewrite the stars?
Maybe the world could be ours tonight
[Verse 2: Zendaya]
You think it's easy?
You think I don't want to run to you?
But there are mountains
And there are doors that we can't walk through
I know you're wonderin' why
Because we're able to be just you and me within these walls
But when we go outside
You're gonna wake up and see that it was hopeless after all
[Chorus: Zendaya]
No one can rewrite the stars
How can you say you'll be mine?
Everything keeps us apart
And I'm not the one you were meant to find
It's not up to you, it's not up to me
When everyone tells us what we can be
How can we rewrite the stars?
Say that the world can be ours tonight
[Bridge: Both, Zendaya, Zac Efron]
All I want is to fly with you
All I want is to fall with you
So just give me all of you
It feels impossible
It's not impossible
Is it impossible?
Say that it's possible
[Chorus: Both, Zac Efron]
How do we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine
Nothing can keep us apart
'Cause you are the one I was meant to find
It's up to you and it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
Why don't we rewrite the stars?
Changin' the world to be ours
[Outro: Zendaya]
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
But I can't have you
We're bound to break and my hands are tied
Rewrite the Stars was written by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul.
Rewrite the Stars was produced by Greg Wells & Joseph Trapanese & Justin Paul & Alex Lacamoire.
Zac Efron & Zendaya released Rewrite the Stars on Fri Nov 17 2017.
They do, but their character names are used here in the lyric transcription.
Apart from its appearance in the movie, there has been no music video released for the song.
Zendaya has said:
Every word reflects what these characters (Phillip Carlyle and Anne Wheeler) are going through, what they’re feeling.
During the recording of the first HSM film, Efron’s voice did not have the range to hit the high notes for the role. Since that, his voice has not only matured, but has developed the strength and some additional range.
Sometimes multiple vocalists sing separate lines within the same verse and we use different formatting to distinguish this. The standard layout for Genius lyrics is for the first vocalist(s) to have no text formatting, the next have their lines in italics, and anything above this is in bold.
This song was released on November 17, 2017. In the events of the movie, the song takes place after Carlyle’s parents insult him for being around an African-American woman because he is a white man. Anne flees to the circus’s ring, and they sing this song together as Philip tries to persuade her tha...
The film The Greatest Showman is loosely based on the events of the life of P. T. Barnum. In real life, he promoted hoaxes for money. However, the movie paints him as a good, more likable businessman.