Next Ten Minutes Lyrics

Next Ten Minutes

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. 

HE takes a ring out of his jeans pocket. 

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?


CATHERINE appears, wearing her wedding gown. 

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. 

JAMIE slides the ring on to CATHERINE's finger.


CATHERINE 
I'm 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 being anything other than being exactly 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. 

THEY are standing at the altar
together. 

JAMIE CATHERINE 
Will you share your life with me Forever.

For the next ten lifetimes? Forever, Jamie... 
For a million summers. 


BOTH 
'Til the world explodes 
'Til there's no one left 
Who
has ever known us apart! 

JAMIE 
There are so many dreams I need to
see with you… 

CATHERINE 
There are so many years I need to be
with you… 

JAMIE 
I will never be complete 

CATHERINE

I will never be alive- 

JAMIE 
I will never change the world

Until I do. 

CATHERINE 
I do.

JAMIE 
I do.


CATHERINE 
I do. 

BOTH 
I do… 

CATHERINE, in
a boat on the lake in Central Park. 

CATHERINE 
Is that one John
Lennon? 
That's the San Remo. 
Isn't that the Museum? 
Can we go see
the dinosaurs?