Special Time of Day

(The square.)

[ISABELLE]
He sets me free from two to three
My special time of day

That's when I do the groceries
And while the time away

That's when I get to smell the air
The cigarettes, the camembert
My husband says, "It's dangerous out there!"

But still, I'm free from two to three
My special time of day
The market traders flirt with me
Occasionally, they'll say
"Your husband is a jealous brute
To keep you under lock and key"
I smile and buy my bread and fruit contentedly
Quitе happy with my fantasy

That Passepartout is near at hand
He'll suddеnly appear
And lead me to a magic land
A hundred million miles from here

I'm always free from two to three
My special time of day
I keep my secrets safe with me
And smile and while the time away

(ISABELLE chats with vendors. DUSOLEIL enters. ISABELLE doesn't notice him.)

[DUSOLEIL]
She doesn't know my name
Or know that I'm alive
I watch her every day
She lives at number five

When I was nobody
Why should she look at me?
How could I even dare
To speak her name?

But now that I'm a star
Why worship from afar?
Why not walk up to you
And just proclaim my...

(DUSOLEIL and ISABELLE, singing at the same time:)

[DUSOLEIL]
No
You are too beautiful and fair
I wouldn't speak, I wouldn't dare

I'd just be stammering and staring
As you glide across the square
I wouldn't dare to say a word
You'd never know that you had heard about me
This way, you'll think of me
Okay, tangentially
But still my story on your radio

When you lie down in bed
I'll be inside your head
All right, not literally

[ISABELLE]
And now I dream of you
My Passepartout
...I dream you're lying beside me
And when we kiss
You hold me tight
And every night when I lie down in bed
I think of you instead
Instead of him
The man who's next to me

[DUSOLEIL]
(Now solo)
And when I dare
To say hello to you
Somehow, you'll know...

[ISABELLE]
And so I while the time away
I'll find my love...

[BOTH]
One day