Quartet: There's a Man (Transition)

Last night I dreamed I walked through the maze to Lily's garden
 And saw Lily and Mary standing there
 Mary standing right there, in Lily's garden
 I turned away; I couldn't watch them
 I was afraid
 Why won't he say what he wants?
 Why must he speak in dreams?
 Why can't he see what he wants?
 To disappear, it seems!
 He should send this haunted girl far away
 Leave the house and lands to me!
 I watched them walk around the garden
 She stood tall, grown strong and bold
 Then they turned and asked my pardon
 I couldn't speak, my heart grown cold
 Why can't he see what he wants?
 He wants the past undone!
 Why can't he know what he wants?
 He's losing battles won
 To have ever loved her
 Never known how complete a loss can be
 If she could disappear, he'd start again
 And live like other men, he could be happy then
 If she'd disappear, he could be free
 Cut off from pain and loss
 A bit like me
 You can't marry this Archibald!
 He's a gloomy miserable cripple who hides himself away
 In that horrible house!
 He can't believe you love him and neither can I!
 No one is asking for your approval, Rose!
 Lily, think about your children
 Do you want your children to be crippled as well?
 I will marry him!
 I can arrange what he wants (Don't do this!)
 He's left it all to me (Don't wed him!)
 Now he can have what he wants (Don't bed him!)
 Unfettered he will be (Don't do this)
 Set him free to wander (Set him free)
 Through the world
 Let him go
 His lonely way!
 Then I longed to join them
 Know the peace they feel (Now that I love him)
 Their journey done
 Then I woke once more without them (I will live for him)
 Knew I must wander on and on (Live just to love him)
 I go (I won't forgive you!)
 (Won't see you live there!)
 Life to find! (Lily, I swear I'll never see you!)
 Just to disappear (Do what you will, then)
 Is to be free! (I'll never leave him!)
 Cut off from pain (Cut off from pain)
 Cut off from pain (Cut off from pain)
 I'll help him disappear! (Now you must leave him!)
 He'll start again! (Yes, you must leave him)
 And if I go to them (Yes, you must leave him!)
 He could be happy then (Lily, promise!)
 Just to disappear is to be free (Yes, you must leave him)
 You must believe!
 Disappear!
 I will wed and bear him children (Lily, think about the children)
 He will love me, love the children (Lily, think about the children)
 I shan't be gone long
 Perhaps just til the autumn
 And Mary?
 I'll write her a note from Paris
 Now I'll go look in on Colin
 Just see that you don't wake him
 In ten years, have I ever awakened the boy?
 There's a man who no one sees
 There's a man who lives alone
 There's a heart that beats in silence for
 The life he's never known