# Sand
# Water
# Straw
# Faster!
# Mud, and lift
# Sand, and pull
# Water, and raise up
- # Straw... # - Faster!
# With the sting of the whip
# On my shoulder
# With the salt of my sweat
# On my brow
# Elohim, God on high
# Can you hear your people cry?
# Help us now
# This dark hour
# Deliver us
# Hear our call, deliver us
# Lord of all, remember us
# Here in this burning sand
# Deliver us
# There's a land you promised us
# Deliver us to the Promised Land #
(Men shouting in distance)
# Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach
# AI ti-ra veh al tif-cha-d
# My son I have nothing I can give
# But this chance that you may live
# I pray we'll meet again
# If he will deliver us
(Men) # Hear our prayer, deliver us from despair
# These years of slavery grow too cruel to stand
# Deliver us
# There's a land you promised us
# Deliver us
# Out of bondage
# And deliver us
# To the Promised Land #
(Baby coos)
(Cries)
# Hush now, my baby
# Be still, love, don't cry
# Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
# Sleep and remember
# My last lullaby
# So I'll be with you
# When you dream #
(Yawns)
# River, oh, river
# Flow gently for me
# Such precious cargo you bear
# Do you know somewhere
# He can live free
# River
# Deliver him there #
(Roars)
(Gasps)
(Coos)
# Brother, you're safe now
# And safe may you stay
# For I have a prayer just for you
# Grow, baby brother
# Come back some day
# Come and deliver us too #
Mummy!
Come, Rameses. We will show Pharaoh your new baby brother...
Moses.
# Deliver us
# Send a shepherd to shepherd us
# And deliver us
# To the Promised Land
# Deliver us
# To the Promised Land
(Moses' mother) # Deliver us #
(Fast hoofbeats approaching)
Faster, you beasts! You run like mules!
Hey, Rameses, how'd you like your face carved on a wall?.
Some day, yes.
How about now?
Agh! You almost killed me!
Come on. Where's your sense of fun?
Oh, it's fun you want?
(Horses whinny)
Whoa!
Moses?
Whoa! (Laughs)
(All scream)
Moses, admit it. You've always looked up to me.
Yes, but it's not much of a view!
Yah! Whoo!
(Horses whinny)
(Rameses) Second born, second place!
(Moses) Not for long! Yah!
(Solemn chanting)
Whoa!
Jump!
(Both yell)
(Rumbling)
(Whooping)
Whoo!
(Rameses) Do you think we'll get into trouble for this?
(Moses) No, not a chance!
Why do the gods torment me
with such reckless, destructive, blasphemous sons?
- Father, hear what I... - Be still! Pharaoh speaks.
I seek to build an empire,
and your only thought is to amuse yourselves by tearing it down.
Have I taught you nothing?
You mustn't be so hard on yourself, Your Majesty.
It's not your fault your sons learned nothing.
- They learned blasphemy. - True.
Father, the fault is mine.
I goaded Rameses on, and so I am responsible.
Hmm. "Responsible".
Do you know the meaning of that word, Rameses?
I understand, Father.
And do you understand the task for which your birth has destined you?
The ancient traditions.
When I pass into the next world,
then you will be the morning and evening star.
One damaged temple does not destroy our tradition.
But one weak link can break the chain of a mighty dynasty!
(Sighs)
You have my leave to go.
Father.
Father?
You know it was really my fault.
Must you be so hard on him?
Moses, you will never have to carry a burden
Iike the crown I will pass to Rameses.
He must not allow himself to be led astray.
Not even by you, my son.
All he cares about is... is your approval.
I know he will live up to your expectations.
He only needs the opportunity.
Maybe. Maybe so.
Go now. I shalI see you both tonight.
(Whistles)
- Well, that went well. - (Rameses) Just go away.
Could have been worse.
"The weak link in the chain." That's what he called me.
(Sighs)
Well, you are rather pathetic.
Irresponsible, ignorant.
He practically accused me of bringing down the dynasty!
Yeah, I can see it now. There go the pyramids! (Chuckles)
You can laugh about it.
Statues cracking and toppling over, the Nile drying up.
Single-handedly, you will bring the greatest kingdom on Earth to ruin.
Tell me this, Moses - why is it that every time you start something,
I'm the one who ends up in trouble?
(Splash)
- Oh, man! - Rameses, you're in trouble!
Get down here! I think you owe us an apology.
- Oh, my new thing! - I am so upset!
You might as well.
(Man) We're gonna tell the Pharaoh!
Oh, look at me! I'm drenched!
I figured it out. You know what your problem is, Rameses?
- What? - You care too much.
And you don't care at all.
Then I suppose you care a lot more than I do...
that we're late for the banquet, for example.
(Rameses, panting) I'm done for! Father will kill me.
Don't worry. Nobody will even notice us coming in.
(Crowd cheers)
"Nobody will even notice"?!
(Laughs and sighs)
Ah, the young princes.
Rameses, you were just named Prince Regent.
You are now responsible for overseeing all the temples.
I suggest you get over there...
and thank your father.
Apparently, Moses, someone thought he...
"just needed the opportunity."
My lord Pharaoh.
I propose that the high priests offer tribute to their new regent.
(Pharaoh) An excellent idea. Hotep! Huy!
- Huy. - Hmm?
- The Midian girl. - That's a good idea!
Go get her.
By the power of Ra,
we present for your delectation and delight
an exotic apparition stolen from a faraway land.
(Crowd gasps)
(Angry grunt)
(Gasps)
We offer you this delicate desert flower.
(Screams and crowd chuckles)
(Grunts)
Let us inspect this...desert flower.
More like a desert cobra!
Not much of a snake charmer, are you?
That's why I...give her to you.
- No, that's generous, but... - I won't be given to anyone.
Especially an arrogant, pampered palace brat!
Are you going to let her talk to you like that?
You will show the proper respect for a prince of Egypt.
But I am showing you all the respect you deserve - none!
No! Wait!
- Be still. - Untie this rope!
- Set me free! - Be still.
- Let go! - As you wish.
Aah! Ohh!
(Crowd laughs)
(Man) You there!
Have her dried off...and sent to Prince Moses' chambers.
If it pleases you, Father, my first act as regent...
is to appoint Moses...
as royal chief...
architect.
(Cheering)
(Sighs)
Well... (Clears throat) Right.
(Muffled protesting)
(Muffled whining)
(Camel groaning)
Shh! Come on.
Guards!
(Both) Prince Moses!
Erm...
There's a-a man tied up in my room.
- Well, look into it! - (Both) Right away, sir.
(Midian Girl) Please, I need water. I have a long journey ahead of me.
- May God protect you. - Thank you.
Hut-hut.
(Clattering)
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I...
Oh, please forgive me. I...
I didn't expect to see...you...
here, of all places, at-at-at our door...
- ..mmm, at last! - (Chuckles) At last?
I told you, Aaron. I knew he would return when he was ready.
- Miriam... - I knew you cared about our freedom.
Freedom? Why would I care about that?
Because you're... Well, you're our brother.
- What? - Be...
(Sighs) They never told you?
Who never told me what?
But you're here. You must know.
- Be careful, slave! - Oh, my good prince.
Um, she's exhausted from the day's work.
Ah, not that it was too much. We quite enjoyed it.
But she's confused, and knows not to whom she speaks.
I know to whom I speak, Aaron. I know who you are.
- You are not a prince of Egypt. - Miriam!
- What? - Your Highness, pay her no heed.
Come, Miriam.
May I discuss something with you?
Moses, you must believe! You were born of my mother, Yocheved.
- Stop it. - You are our brother!
Now you go too far. You shall be punished.
No! Please, uh, Your Highness.
She's ill. She's very ill. We beg your forgiveness.
- Miriam, let us go. - No, Aaron.
Our mother set you adrift in a basket to save your life!
Save my life? From who?
Ask the man that you call "Father".
- How dare you? - God saved you to be our deliverer.
- Enough of this. - Moses, you are the deliverer.
I said enough!
You will regret this night.
# Hush now, my baby
# Be still, love, don't cry
# Sleep as you're rocked
# By the stream
# Sleep and remember
# My last lullaby
# So I'll be with you
# When you dream #
(Gasps)
(Man) Did you see him? It's Moses!
# Gleaming in the moonlight
# Cool and clean and all I've ever known
# All I ever wanted
# Sweet perfumes of incense
# And graceful rooms of alabaster stone
# All I ever wanted
# This is my home
# With my father, mother, brother
# Oh, so noble, oh, so strong
# Now I am home
# Here among my trappings and belongings
# I belong
# And if anybody doubts it
# They couldn't be more wrong
# I am a sovereign prince of Egypt
# A son of the proud history that's shown
# Etched on every wall
# Surely, this is all I ever wanted
# All I ever wanted
# All I ever
# Wanted #
(Breathes deeply)
(Baby cries)
(# Yocheved hums lullaby)
(Gasps)
(Pharaoh) The Hebrews grew too numerous.
They might have risen against us.
Father, tell me you didn't do this.
Moses...
Sometimes, for the greater good,
sacrifices must be made.
Sacrifices?
Oh, my son.
They were only slaves.
(Miriam) Moses?
Is this where you found me?
Moses, please try to understand.
So... So everything I thought,
everything I am...
is a lie.
No.
You are our son, and we love you.
Why did you choose me?
We didn't, Moses.
The gods did.
# This is your home, my son
# Here the river brought you
# And it's here the river meant
# To be your home
# Now you know the truth, love
# Now forget and be content
# When the gods send you a blessing
# You don't ask why it was sent #
(Sighs)
Last night, the gods granted me a vision.
I'm not merely going to restore this temple, I will make it more grand,
more splendid than any other monument in Egypt.
(Slaves groan)
(Sighs)
Moses! Look...
Fate has turned our little mishap into a great opportunity.
- (Guard) Get up, old man! - Father will be so pleased...
Put your back into it!
Faster!
(Rameses) This is just the beginning.
A gateway will open to a city of limestone,
more dazzling than the sun.
And here, a statue of Hapi...
Hurry!
- ..two great column halls. - (Miriam) Stop it!
- Somebody stop this! - There's nothing we can do.
- Stop it. Stop! Stop it!
- (Whip cracks) - Leave that man alone!
Moses!
Out of my way. Out of my way. Move!
Who did this?
(Man) Up there! It's him! Up there!
(All gasp)
Moses!
Moses, what's going on? Moses!
Moses!
- Moses! - Let me go!
- Wait! - You saw. I just killed a man.
We can take care of that.
I will make it so it never happened.
Nothing you can say can change what I've done.
I am Egypt, the morning and the evening star.
If I say day is night, it will be written,
and you will be what I say you are.
I say you are innocent.
What you say does not matter. You don't understand.
- I can't stay here any longer. - Moses!
No! All I've ever known to be true is a lie.
I'm not who you think I am.
What are you talking about?
Go ask the man I once called "Father".
(Sighs)
Moses?
Please.
Goodbye, brother.
Moses!
Aagh!
(Wind howls)
- Aaah! - (Camel Snorts)
(Sloshing)
(Coughs) Hey, wait!
Please.
(Sheep bleating)
(Bleating continues)
Oh!
(Girl screams)
Let our sheep drink!
Leave us alone! Get away!
(Children yelling and screaming)
Stop it!
My father's the High Priest of Midian. You're in big trouble!
(Moses) Hey, you.
Aren't these your camels?
- Hut-hut! - No, no! No, no!
- Wait! - Wait, stop!
(Groans weakly)
Whoa!
(Splash)
(All grunt)
What are you girls doing?
Trying to get the funny man out of the well.
- That's one I've never heard before. - (Moses yells)
Oh, my! Oh, uh, don't worry down there!
Uh, we'll get you out. Hold on!
You?
Huh? (Chuckles nervously)
Ohh!
(Splash)
Mm-hmm.
That's why Papa says she'll never get married.
You don't have to do this. Ladies, please, I'm really...I'm quite...
No, not there, please. That tickles!
Ladies, you've cleaned every inch of me.
- Whoa! I was wrong. - (Children laugh)
Let me through, let me through. I want to see him.
Ah! You are most welcome.
You should not be a stranger in this land.
You have been sent as a blessing.
And tonight, you shall be my honoured guest! (Laughs)
(Chuckles) My father, Jethro. High Priest of Midian.
(Chattering)
(Giggling)
Psst! Sit with me.
Um, all right.
Psst! Not yet.
- Oh, sorry. - (Jethro) My children,
let us give thanks for this bountiful food.
And let us also give thanks
for the presence of this brave, young man whom we honour here tonight.
(Applause)
Please, sir, I wish you wouldn't.
I have done nothing in my life worth honouring.
First, you rescue Tzipporah from Egypt,
then you defend my daughters from brigands.
You think that is nothing?
It seems you do not know what is worthy of honour.
# A single thread in a tapestry
# Though its colour brightly shine
# Can never see its purpose
# In a pattern of the grand design
# And the stone that sits on the very top
# Of the mountain's mighty face
# Does it think it's more important
# Than the stones that form the base?
# So how can you see what your life is worth
# Or where your value lies
# You can never see through the eyes of man
# You must look at your life
# Look at your life through heaven's eyes
# Lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai-lai... #
Dance with me!
No, I don't know how.
# Lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai-lai Lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai-lai... #
# A lake of gold in the desert sand is less than a cool, fresh spring
# And to one lost sheep a shepherd boy is greater than the richest king
# If a man lose everything he owns
# Has he truly lost his worth
# Or is it the beginning
# Of a new and brighter birth
# So how do you measure the worth of a man
# In wealth or strength or size
# In how much he gained or how much he gave
# The answer will come
to him who tries
# To look at his life through heaven's eyes
# And that's why we share all we have with you
# Though there's little to be found
# When all you've got is nothing
# There's a lot to go around
# No life can escape being blown about
# By the winds of change and chance
# Though you never know all the steps... #
- Dance with me! - No...
# You must learn to join the dance
(Crowd) # La-la-la, lee-lai-lai-lai
# Lai-lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai-lai
# Lai-lai-lai, lee-lai-lai lai-lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai
(Jethro) # Lai-lai-lai-lai, lee-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai-lai
# Lai-lai-lai-lai, lee-lai-lai lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai
# Lai-lai-lai-lai, lee-lai-lai lai-lai-lai-lai, lai-lai-lai
# Lai-lai-lai-lai, lee-lai-lai lai-lai-lai-lai-lai
# So how do you judge what a man is worth
# By what he builds or buys?
# You can never see with your eyes on Earth
# Look through heaven's eyes
# Look at your life
# Look at your life through heaven's
# Eyes #
Mmm.
I love you.
(Bleating)
(lnhales deeply)
Ahh!
Bleats
(Sighs)
(Bleats)
It's too early for this.
(Sighs)
(Bleating)
(Gasps)
(Whispering voice) 'Moses...'
'Moses...'
'Moses.'
Here I am.
'Take the sandals from your feet,
'for the place on which you stand is holy ground.'
Who are you?
(Echoing) 'I am that I am.'
I don't understand.
'I am the god of your ancestors,
'Abraham, lsaac and Jacob.'
(Miriam's voice) 'You were born of my mother. You are our brother.'
What do you want with me?
'I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt...
'and have heard their cry.'
(Moses' voice) 'Stop it! Leave that man alone!'
'So I have come down to deliver them out of slavery...
'and bring them to a good land.
'A land flowing with milk and honey.
'And so, unto Pharaoh,
'I shall send...
'you.'
Me? Who am I to lead these people?
They'll never believe me. They won't even listen.
'I shall teach you what to say.'
(Moses' voice) Let my people go!
But I was their enemy.
I was the Prince of Egypt,
the son of the man who slaughtered their children.
You've chosen the wrong messenger. How can I even speak to these people?
'Who made man's mouth?
'Who made the deaf, the mute, the seeing or the blind?
'Did not I? Now go!'
(Panting)
'Oh, Moses,
'I shall be with you when you go to the king of Egypt.
'But Pharaoh will not listen.
'So I will stretch out my hand...
'and smite Egypt...
'with all my wonders.
'Take the staff in your hand, Moses.
'With it,
'you shall do my wonders.
'I shall be with you, Moses.
'Moses.
'Moses.'
(Bleats)
But, Moses,
you are just one man.
Tzipporah,
please.
(Sighs)
(Laughter outside)
Look at your family.
They are free.
They have a future.
They have hopes and dreams
and the promise of a life with dignity.
That is what I want for my people.
And that is why I must do the task
that God has given me.
I'm coming with you.
(Pipes and drums playing)
(Music stops)
Rameses.
Moses? Is it really...?
Moses! Where have you been?
- Rameses! - I took you for dead!
(Both laugh)
Look at you!
Pharaoh!
Well, look at you. What on earth are you dressed as?
Oh, Rameses, it's so good to see you!
(Hotep) Excuse me, Your Majesty.
We must remind you this man committed a serious crime against the gods.
We are loathe to bring it up.
The law clearly states the punishment...
- Death! - We hesitate to say it.
Be still. Pharaoh speaks.
I am the morning and the evening star.
(Moses) Rameses...
It shall be as I say.
I pardon forever all crimes of which he stands accused,
and wilI have it known that he is...
our brother Moses,
the Prince of Egypt.
(Crowd gasps)
Rameses...
in my heart, you are my brother,
but things cannot be as they were.
I see no reason why not.
You know I am a Hebrew, and the god of the Hebrews came to me.
What?
He commands that you let his people go.
(Murmuring)
Commands?
Behold...the power of God.
(Gasps of amazement)
(Hisses)
Well, uh, impressive.
Hmm.
Very well, Moses. I'll play along.
(Chuckles) Hotep. Huy.
Give this snake charmer our answer.
(Chuckling)
(Rumbling)
(Both) By the power of Ra.
Mut.
Nut.
Khnum. Ptah.
Nephthys. Nekhbet.
Sobek. Sekhmet.
Sokar. Selket.
Reshpu. Wadjet.
Anubis. Anukis.
Seshmu. Meshkent.
Hemsut. Tefnut.
Heket. Mafdet.
Ra, Mut, Nut, Ptah.
Hemsut, Tefnut, Sokar, Selket. Seshmu, Reshpu, Sobek, Wadjet.
Heket, Mafdet, Nephthys, Nekhbet, Ra!
# So you think you've got friends
# In high places
# With the power to put us on the run
# Well, forgive us these smiles
# On our faces
# You'll know what power is when we are done
(Both) Son.
# You're playing with the big boys now
# Playing with the big boys now... #
Oh, that's pretty!
- # Every spell and gesture - # Tells you who's the best
(Both) # You're playing with the big boys now
# You're playing with the big boys now
(Chanting)
- # Stop this foolish mission - # Watch a true magician
(Both) # Give an exhibition how
# Pick up your silly twig, boy
# You're playing with the big boys now
(Laughs)
(Priests) # By the power of Ra, Mut, Nut
# Khnum, Ptah
# Sobek, Sekhmet, Sokar, Selket
# Anubis, Anukis, Hemsut Tefnut, Meshkent, Mafdet
# You're playing with the big boys now
# By the might of Horus you will kneel before us
# Kneel to our splendorous power
- # You put up a front - # You put up a fight
- # Just to show we feel no spite - # You can be our acolyte
- # But first, boy it's time to bow - # (Priests) Kowtow
# Or it's your own grave you'll dig, boy, you're playing with the big boys
# Playing with the big boys, playing with the big boys
# Playing with the big boys now! #
- (Crowd cheers) - They love it!
(Shouting and cheering continues)
(Chuckling) All right, Moses. I know you.
What's this really about?
Rameses, look.
What do you see?
(Rameses) A greater Egypt than that of my father.
That is not what I see.
Moses, I cannot change what you see.
I have to maintain the ancient traditions.
I bear the weight of my father's crown.
Do you still not understand what Seti was?
He was a great leader.
His hands bore the blood of thousands of children.
Slaves.
My people.
And I can no longer hide in the desert while they suffer...
at your hands.
So...
you have returned...
only to free them.
(Moses) I'm sorry.
Yes.
I had hoped...
I do not know this God.
- Neither will I let your people go. - Rameses, please, you must listen...
I will not be the weak link!
Tell your people, as of today...
their workload has been doubled... thanks to your God.
Or is it thanks...to you?