"Twin Soliloquies" is a song featured in the 1958 film South Pacific with music composed by Richard Rodgers and lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. In the song, Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) and Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) consider the romantic possibilities of their new relationship during an otherwise platonic conversation.
Lyrics[]
Nellie:
Wonder how I'd feel,
Living on a hillside,
Looking on an ocean,
Beautiful and still.
Emile:
This is what I need,
This is what I've longed for,
Someone young and smiling
Climbing up my hill!
Nellie:
We are not alike;
Probably I'd bore him.
He's a cultured Frenchman—
I'm a little hick.
Emile:
Younger men than I,
Officers and doctors,
Probably pursue her—
She could have her pick.
Nettie:
Wonder why I feel
Jittery and jumpy!
I am like a schoolgirl,
Waiting for a dance.
Emile:
Can I ask her now?
I am like a schoolboy!
What will be her answer?
Do I have a chance?
Nellie:
This is how it feels
Living on a hillside…
Emile:
This is what I need,
This is what I've longed for,
Someone young and smiling
Here upon my hill!
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