Where In The World and How Could I Ever Know Performed by Joey LaPlant, Jessie Bittner and Lucy Zeng, from the musical The Secret Garden composed by Lucy Simon.
One of the most touching and heart breaking Broadway songs. In this song, Lily's ghost, a woman who passed away years ago, sings to her still-living husband about her love for him and why she still feels guilty for having left him alone. As he is a hunchback, the fact that a woman as beautiful and charming as Lily could love him was unbelievable; when she died, he lost everything, including his confidence in himself.
Lyrics:
Now I see you in the window
Of a carriage, then a train.
Still my mind will not accept that
In your grave you must remain.
I hear your voice then turn and
See a stranger's form and face.
Must I wander on tormented
Place to place to place to place!
Where can I go that you won't find me?
Why can't I find a place to hide?
Why do you want to chase me, haunt me?
Every step you're there beside me.
Where in the world, tell
me, where in the world
Can I live without your love?
Where on the earth, tell
me where on the earth
Can I stay now that you are gone?
Why did I have to meet you, love you?
Why can't I rid you from my mind?
Why did you have to want me?
Won't you let me put my life behind me?
How in the world, tell
me how in the world
Can I live without your love?
Why on the earth, tell
me, why on the earth
Should I stay now that you are gone?
Now that you are...
[spoken]
Lily, is that you?
LILY:
How could I know I would
have to leave you?
How could I know I would hurt you so?
You were the one I was born to love
Oh, how could I ever know?
How could I ever know?
How can I say to go on without me?
How, when I know you still need me so?
How can I say not to dream about me?
How could I ever know?
How could I ever know?
Forgive me, can you forgive me?
And hold me in your heart
And find some new way to love me
Now that we're apart?
How could I know I would never hold you?
Never again in this world
But oh, sure as you breathe
I am there inside you
How could I ever know?
How could I ever know?
How can I hope to go on without you?
How can I know where you'd have me go?
How can I bear not to dream about you?
Oh, how can I let you go?
How could I ever know?
All I need
is there in the garden
All I would ask
is care
for the child of
our love
Come, go with me, safe I will keep you
Where you would lead me, there I would
There I would, there we would,
there we will go
Oh! How, how could I know?
Tell me how could I know?
Never to know you would ever leave me
How
could we ever know?
How could we know?
How could I ever know?