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Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)

by Stephen Flaherty

[GLEB]
And underhanded girl
An act of desperation
And to my consternation
I let you go

(spoken)
Well not this time
Paris is no place for a good and loyal Russian

[ANYA, spoken]
We are both good and loyal Russians

[GLEB, spoken]
I've come to take you home

[ANYA, spoken]
My home is here now

[GLEB, spoken]
Stop playing this game, Anya!
I beg you

[ANYA, spoken]
We both know it's not a game Gleb

[GLEB, spoken]
If you really are Anastasia
Do you think history wants you to have lived?

[ANYA, spoken]
Yes!
Why don't you?

[GLEB, spoken]
The Romanovs were given everything
And they gave back nothing
Until the Russian people rose up and destroyed them

[ANYA, spoken]
All but one
Finish it
I am my father's daughter

[GLEB, spoken]
And I am my father's son!
(gun clicks)
Finish it I must

(sung)
My father shook his head and told me not to ask
My mother said he died of shame

[ANYA, spoken]
In me you see them
Look at their faces in mine
Here their screams
Imagine their terrors
See their blood

[GLEB]
But I believe he did proud and vital task
And in my father's name

[ANYA, spoken]
Do it
Do it and I will be with my parents and my brother and sisters
In that cellar in Yekaterinburg all over again

[GLEB]
The children
Their voices
A man makes painful choices
He does what's necessary, Anya

For Russia, my beauty
What choice but simple duty
We have a past to bury, Anya

[ENSEMBLE]
And the Neva flows, a new wind blows

[GLEB & ENSEMBLE]
And soon it will be spring
The leaves unfold, the Tsar lies cold

[GLEB]
Be careful what a dream may bring!
A revolution is a simple thing!