[Lyric] Luisas Monologue (Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt)

[LUISA] (spoken)
This morning, a bird woke me up
It was a lark... or a peacock... or something like that
Some strange sort of bird that I'd never heard
And I said, "Hello!"
And it vanished. Flew away!
The very minute that I said "hello"
It was mysterious

So do you know what I did?
I went over to my mirror and I put on my mother's necklace
And the minute the jewels touched my skin, my eyes turned mauve
No, honestly, mauve
And then blue
And then sort of a deep magenta when the sun hit them

I'm sixteen years old, and every day something happens to me
I don't know what to make of it
When I get up in the morning to get dressed
I can tell: something's different
I like to touch my eyelids because they're never quite the same