Limelight

 Charlie Chaplin - Spring Song (Limelight)

Terry: 

What is there to fight for?

Calvero: 

Ah, you see, you admit it. 

What is there to fight for? Everything. 

Life itself, isn't that enough, to be lived, suffered, enjoyed. 

What is there to fight for? 

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. 

Besides, you have your art, your dancing.

Terry: 

I can't dance without legs.

Calvero: 

I know a man without arms who can play a scherzo on a violin and does it all with his toes. 

The Trouble is you won't fight. 

You've given in, continually dwelling on Sickness and Death. 

But there's something just as inevitable as Death, and that's Life. Life, life, life. 

Think of all the power that's in The Universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. 

That's the same power within you if you only have Courage and The Will to use it.

Spring is here

Birds are calling

Skunks are crawling

Wagging their tails for love.

Spring is here

Whales are churning

Worms are squirming

Wagging their tails for love.

What is this thing

Of which I sing

That makes us all bewitched?

What is this thing

That comes in spring

That gives us all the itch?

Oh, it’s love, it’s love, it’s love love love love love

Love love love love love love love (etc. etc.)

“I believe that Faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without Faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. 

I believe that Faith is an extension of The Mind. It is The Key that negates The Impossible. 

To deny Faith is to refute oneself and The Spirit That Generates All Our Creative Forces. My Faith is in The Unknown, in all that we do not understand by Reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in The Realm of The Unknown there is An Infinite Power for Good."

Charlie Chaplin,

My Autobiography, p. 291

[as Terry dances, Calvero prays behind the stage] 

“Whoever you are, whatever it is, keep it going. Keep it going until...”

[sees someone staring at him] 

I've lost a button... one of those cheap outfits.....