The Next Ten Minutes Songtext / Lyric

JAMIE

No, that one's Jerry Seinfeld.

That one's John Lennon there.

No, the Dakota –

The San Remo is up a few blocks.

Have you been inside the Museum?

We should go.

Meet the dinosaurs.



Cathy.






Will you share your life with me

For the next ten minutes?

For the next ten minutes:

We can handle that.

We could watch the waves,

We could watch the sky,

Or just sit and wait

As the time ticks by,

And if we make it 'til then,

Can I ask you again

For another ten?



And if you in turn agree

To the next ten minutes,

And the next ten minutes,

'Til the morning comes,

Then just holding you

Might compel me to

Ask you for more.

There are so many lives I want to share with you –

I will never be complete until I do.



CATHERINE

I am not always on time.

Please don't expect that from me.

I will be late,

But if you can just wait,

I will make it eventually.



Not like it's in my control,

Not like I'm proud of the fact,

But anything other than being exact-

-Ly on time, I can do.



I don't know why people run.

I don't know why things fall through.

I don't know how anybody survives in this life

Without someone like you.

I could protect and preserve,

I could say no and goodbye,

But why, Jamie, why?



I want to be your wife.

I want to bear your child.

I want to die

Knowing I

Had a long, full life in your arms.

That I can do,

Forever, with you.



JAMIE

Will you share your life with me

For the next ten lifetimes?

For a million summers



BOTH

Til the world explodes,

'Til there's no one left

Who has ever known us apart!



CATHERINE

Forever

Forever, Jamie…



JAMIE

There are so many dreams I need to see

With you

I will never be complete –

I will never change the world

Until I do.



I do.



CATHERINE

There are so many years I need to be

With you…

I will never be alive...



I do.



I do.



BOTH

I do…



CATHERINE

Is that one John Lennon?

That's the San Remo.

Isn't that the Museum?

Can we go see the dinosaurs?