The Accompanist - Musical Theatre Piano Karaoke | ONE SECOND AND A MILLION MILES from THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY - Piano Accompaniment [Karaoke] @TheAccompanist | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
ONE SECOND AND A MILLION MILES from The Bridges of Madison County.
Piano accompaniment in A Major.
Karaoke lyrics onscreen (or turn on CC/Subtitles)

As this is quite complex, with an a capella section at the front for the Robert character as this version is matched to the tempo of the original cast recording featuring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, I have made a chordal accompanient to keep in tempo of the original.

There is a bell note (for two counts of four) then the vocal lead starts (I've left a little guide for the start of it). If you prefer to do the section a capella as designed you can pause after the bell note (or just jump) to the Main Song chapter which hits as the song normal does where the music kicks in. (I hope this makes sense). Also you can mute the video whilst it plays for the first section as the lyrics will come up at the correct times so you may be able to keep in place that way.

Bell note : 0:00
A capella section : 0:06 (with basic accompaniment)
Main Song : 1:08

The song was written by Jason Robert Brown and the musical The Bridges of Madison County features a book from Marsha Norman.

I've tried to match tempos and the key is the same as the original cast recording (which you can listen to here youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vi6j-EuAE).

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Lyrics :
[ROBERT]
For the first time in my life
I am not outside the moment
With a camera in between me and the world
I think I know

For the first time in my life
I am somehow part of something
You surround me, you connect me
And I think I can't let go

For the first time in my life
You have opened up a channel
There is nothing to contain us
We are joined, and we are free
For the first time in my life
I am risking something precious
I am asking you, Francesca:
Come with me

I can't tell you I know what the future will be
Who knows anything?
I just look at those eyes; you've got so much to see
Let me show you. There's
Crowds and camels and hillsides to climb
All I know is, in all of the time
From man's first breath
To God's last warning

You and I are just one second
Spinning by in one split-second
You and I have just one second
And a million miles to go

I don't need to be rich, I don't need something new

[FRANCESCA]
I don't want to go back to a world without this

[ROBERT]
All I need, all I've needed my whole life was you

[FRANCESCA]
If I left this behind…

[ROBERT]
Please just look at me:
You were born with a wanderer's soul
This is how you begin to be whole
The stars keep burning
Worlds keep turning

[ROBERT and FRANCESCA]
And you and I are just one second
Spinning by in just one second
You and I have just one second

[ROBERT]
And a million miles to go
[FRANCESCA]
Found and lost
Torn in half
Before and after you

[ROBERT]
Come with me

[FRANCESCA]
Open heart
Open door
Before and after you

[ROBERT]
Come with me

[FRANCESCA]
How do I go?
Tell me
How do I go?
How do I go with you?
How do I pack a bag
Close a door
Turn a key
Walk away?
Look at where I am
And who I am
And tell me
Is there something I don't know?
How do I go?
How can I go
With you?

[ROBERT]
I can't tell you I know what the answer will be
It's impossible
But this thing, this is bigger than what we can see
This is destiny
We are tied, we are locked, we are bound;
This will not be reversed or unwound
Whatever fate the stars are weaving
We're not breaking
I'm not leaving
And you and I are just one second
Spinning by in just one second
You and I have just one second…

[FRANCESCA]
And a million miles to go

[ROBERT]
All my life I have been falling…

[FRANCESCA]
All my life I have been falling…

[ROBERT]
All my life I have been falling into…

[FRANCESCA]
All my life I have been falling…

[ROBERT]
You and I

[ROBERT & FRANCESCA]
Have just one second

[ROBERT]
And a million miles to go

[FRANCESCA]
Come with me
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British pianist and arranger Tim J. Spencer has created, in The Accompanist, a collection of Piano Accompaniments of Musical Theatre and Popular Music songs.

These Broadway and West End accompaniments have been specifically performed to match the tempos of the original (cast) recordings where possible. These karaoke style tracks have been created to give the audition performer the sound of what is likely within an audition environment where often we are not faced with a full orchestra but simply a pianist. Therefore the songs can sound very different to the fully orchestrated version.

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