Room 317 Lyrics - Lea Salonga

1 Kim: Lea Salonga

2 Ellen: Claire Moore

3 (A hotel room)

4 KIM

5 good evening, maam

6 ELLEN

7 don't turn the bed yet

8 KIM

9 I'm not the maid

10 ELLEN

11 what do you want then?

12 KIM

13 they must have written the room number wrong

14 I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott

15 three-seventeen, oh I'm sorry... unless

16 well, you must be, of course, you're John's wife, are you not?

17 ELLEN

18 oh God, I see

19 it had to happen

20 you must be Kim

21 Chris went to find you

22 please come inside

23 no one will hurt you

24 I'm Chris's wife

25 my name is Ellen

26 (KIM doesn't move)

27 ELLEN

28 in a way, I am glad I am meeting you first

29 understand, you were only a name till tonight

30 I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were reversed

31 please won't you sit down

32 KIM

33 tell me you are lying

34 ELLEN

35 we've been married a year, I am sorry, it's true

36 KIM

37 he said he'd come to get me

38 ELLEN

39 he says he tried to reach you, but what could he do?

40 KIM

41 please tell me you're not married

42 you don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here

43 ELLEN

44 you don't know how he needed a new start

45 KIM

46 I feel walls in my heart

47 closing in

48 I can't breathe

49 I can't win

50 ELLEN

51 as for the child

52 you say it's Chris's

53 KIM

54 oh yes, Madame

55 my son is Chris's

56 I had a dream for my son to belong

57 and not live his life in the streets like a rat

58 ELLEN

59 we aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load

60 Chris and I are totally together on that

61 KIM

62 then you must take Tam with you

63 ELLEN

64 take a child from his mother, impossible Kim

65 KIM

66 you will take Tam with you

67 then he'll get what I wanted for him

68 ELLEN

69 but Kim, your child needs you

70 Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own

71 KIM

72 Tam's chance lies with you now, not with me

73 BOTH

74 no!

75 can't you see

76 it won't work

77 it can't be

78 KIM

79 if you're saying that because you've made him change his mind

80 Chris must go away and leave me and his son behind

81 if you're saying that because my husband has another wife

82 my child has no future, like the dust of life

83 he must come tonight to my place

84 tell me so to my face

85 (KIM exits)

86 ELLEN

87 I don't want this

88 I didn't come here

89 to meet a girl

90 who loves my husband

91 I came here to help, but what do I do?

92 now, after this, what do I . . .