OUR LITTLE WORLD
Narrator
As for Rapunzel, the Witch was careful not to lose this beauty to the outside world, and so shut her within a doorless tower that lay deep within the forest.
Rapunzel
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Witch
Children are a blessing —
Rapunzel
Ahhh…
Witch
If you know where they are.
Rapunze
Ahhh…
Witch
Nothing’s so distressing, though
Rapunzel as when they keep you guessing, so
Be sure you don’t leave any jars ajar.
Make a little world.
Our little world
is big enough for me–
perfect.
Our little world
is all it needs to be–
perfect!
Our little world
is perfect!
Rapunzel (overlapping)
Our little world
Is big enough for me–
Our little world
Is all it needs to be
Brushing my hair
Only my mother
And me and my hair
Our little world
Is perfect;
If she didn’t drool.
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah–
Witch (simultaneously with above)
Rapunzel. Rapunzel. Let down your hair to me! Rapunzel…Rapunzel!
Witch
Look at her complexion,
still untouched by the sun.
Children need protection
just the way they need affection;
or they wonder and they wander
and they run from your little world.
Our little world–
perfect!
Our little world
is everything
a world ought to be–
perfect!
Perfect!
Tending her hair.
Stroking her hair
looking at her hair
something we can share,
hair–
Our little world
is perfect
nothing to change her;
each day
like the other
Nothing to divert her,
to disconcert her;
nothing
that can possibly
hurt her…
Our little world
is perfect
Rapunzel (overlapping)
Our little world
is all I have to see…
Our little world
is everything
a world ought to be
Washing my hair
drying my hair
unraveling my hair
winding and binding
and minding my hair–
Our little world
is perfect;
or at least so she claims.
If she only cut her nails
didn’t have those pointy teeth
tiny eyes…
Otherwise
our little world
is perfect
and world enough
for me–
Witch
Our little world–
braiding her hair…
If what was growing
was only her hair
and not her;
that I’d prefer.
Nevertheless.
Our little world
is perfect.
Rapunzel (overlapping)
Growing my hair
what do I care
what they are doing
out there?
Our little world
is perfect.