Miss Saigon Musical Lyrics

Room 317

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Room 317 Lyrics

    In a hotel room

    KIM
    good evening, maam

    ELLEN
    don't turn the bed yet

    KIM
    I'm not the maid

    ELLEN
    what do you want then?

    KIM
    they must have written the room number wrong
    I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott
    three-seventeen, oh I'm sorry... unless
    well, you must be, of course, you're John's wife, are you not?

    ELLEN
    oh God, I see
    it had to happen
    you must be Kim
    Chris went to find you
    please come inside
    no one will hurt you
    I'm Chris's wife
    my name is Ellen

    KIM doesn't move

    ELLEN
    in a way, I am glad I am meeting you first
    understand, you were only a name till tonight
    I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were reversed
    please won't you sit down

    KIM
    tell me you are lying

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

    KIM
    he said he'd come to get me

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

    KIM
    please tell me you're not married
    you don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here

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

    KIM
    I feel walls in my heart
    closing in
    I can't breathe
    I can't win

    ELLEN
    as for the child
    you say it's Chris's

    KIM
    oh yes, Madame
    my son is Chris's
    I had a dream for my son to belong
    and not live his life in the streets like a rat

    ELLEN
    we aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load
    Chris and I are totally together on that

    KIM
    then you must take Tam with you

    ELLEN
    take a child from his mother, impossible Kim

    KIM
    you will take Tam with you
    then he'll get what I wanted for him

    ELLEN
    but Kim, your child needs you
    Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own

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

    BOTH
    no!
    can't you see
    it won't work
    it can't be

    KIM
    if you're saying that because you've made him change his mind
    Chris must go away and leave me and his son behind
    if you're saying that because my husband has another wife
    my child has no future, like the dust of life
    he must come tonight to my place
    tell me so to my face

    KIM exits

    ELLEN
    I don't want this
    I didn't come here
    to meet a girl
    who loves my husband
    I came here to help, but what do I do?
    now, after this, what do I