When You Believe

NOTE:  IT IS MY INTENTION THAT MY AUDIENCE LISTENS TO THE ORIGINGAL SONG THAT I HAVE POSTED IN THE BELOW THUMBNAIL WHILE READING THE REWORKED LYRICS AND THE STORY I HAVE SCRIPTED FOR THEM WITHIN THIS POST; I WANT YOU TO DO SO BECAUSE THAT WILL HELP CREATE THE MOOD I AM ATTEMPTING TO DEPICT.  PLEASE DO SO, AND ENJOY.

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The setting is after Tom has awoken Justine at dawn, and is calling her attention to the fully-grown wand, and now bidding her to grasp it, despite her reservations...



Tom, standing behind the wide-eyed Justine, smirkily smiling:  Many nights you've prayedWith no proof anyone could hearIn your heart a hopeful songYou barely understood...So now, don't stand afraidJustine, sighing frightfully:  Even so, I fear there's much to dread.Tom, coyly:  Soon, you'll be moving mountains longBefore you know you can...At this, the scene switches to Alice kneeling in her room, praying for her daughter...Alice:  There can be miracles, when you believeThough hope is frail, it's hard to killWho knows what miracles can be achieved?Scene cuts back to the marshes.Tom, still standing behind Justine:  When you believe, somehow you willTom and Justine's mother, together in side-screen:  They will when you believe...Scene resumes with Alice, starting to pace...In this time of fearWhere prayer so often seems in vainHope looks too akin to summer birdsWho have swiftly flown away...At this, we now cut beck to her daughter.Justine, still lost in her worried dithering:  Yet now I'm standing here--At this, the scene has becomes one vast, black stage, with Justine alone in the spotlight.My heart's so filled I can't explain--Seeking faith whilst speaking wordsI never thought I'd say...At this, two spotlight appear beside her, with TOm on her left, her mum on the right.Tom & Alice, in chorus:  There can be miracles, when you believeAlice:  Though hope is frail, it's hard to killTom, rolling his eyes in annoyance:  So hard to kill...Tom and Alice, again in chorus:  Who knows what miracles can be achieved?When you believe, somehow they willTom:  Somehow, you will...Tom & Alice:  You will when you believe!Cut to to Tom & Alice, in side screen:Alice:  Many nights I've prayedTom:  There will be miracles...Alice:  With no proof anyone could hearTom:  When you believeAlice:  In my heart a desperate songTom:  You can work miraclesAlice:  I've barely understood...Tom:  Your dreams achieve...Alice:  Now, I'm so afraidTom:  Doubt can prevailAlice:  Although I don't know what I fearTom:  It's with you still...Alice, showing fatigue:  It's not easy making mountains moveWhen you don't even see their form...At this, Tom glances and smirks at her before turning back to the camera in triumph.At this, the scene turns back to Justine in the bog.Justine, steadying herself in resolve:  Well, they don't (always happen) when you ask(Tom:  Oh)And it's easy to give in to your fears(Alice:  Oh...Ohhhh)Justine, with knitted brow:  But when you're blinded by your painCan't see your way straight through the rainA small but still resilient voice (She wearily sheds a furtive glance Tom's thinly smiling way.)Says aid is very nearAnd with that, the camera cuts to a closeup of her hands plucking the wand from its stem.Tom and Alice in unison, as the air swirls with red, green, and blue pixie dust:  Ohhh...there can be miraclesWhen you believe(Alice, cluctching a her crucifix:  Oh Lord, believe!Tom, swinging his arm over Justine's shoulders:  You will work miracles!Alice:  Though hope is frailIt's waiting still...Who knows what miracles, you can achieve?Alice:  Don't be deceived!Tom:  When you believe, Justine:  Somehow I will (Alice:  Somehow, somehow, somehow!)Tom:  For now you will...Tom, Alice, and Justine combined:  You will when you believe!And with that, Justine turns and starts striding out of the swamp before cutting back to Mrs. Stillborn, now seated, still findgering the cross, and gazing at it, in contemplation.Alice, murmuring to herself:  Just believe...within your heart...Quick cut, and back, from Justine with a determined look on her face.And the sky must part...Another quick cut.The day that you believe...And with that, Alice buries the cross in her palm as she bows her head once more in prayer as the music fades, and the scene shifts one last to Justine, marching towards an uncertain sunrise, with a wand and a limp that forever trails...

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