Alone+in+the+Universe

HORTON I've been guarding this clover For over a week, Getting laughed at For thinking a dust speck can speak. Well, let them all laugh I'll try not to mind, For I have found something That they'll never find!

There are secrets on a leaf, In the water, in the air, Hidden planets, tiny worlds, All invisible! Not a person seems to know. Not a person seems to care. There is no one who believes a thing I say...

Well, I'm fairly certain At one time or other, Great thinkers all feel this way!

I'm alone in the universe. So alone in the universe. I've found magic but they don't see it

They all call me a lunatic. Ok, call me a lunatic. If I stand on my own, so be it.

'Cause I have wings. Yes, I can fly Around the moon And far beyond the sky And one day soon I know there you'll be One small voice in the universe One true friend in the universe Who believes in me...

JOJO HORTON I'm alone in the universe. So alone in the universe. My own planets and stars Are glowing. Alone in the universe No one notices anything. Not one person is listening. They don't have any way of knowing. Nobody knows that I have wings I have wings. Yes, I can fly I can fly Around the moon And far Beyond the sky Beyond the sky

BOTH Well someday soon You will hear my plea

HORTON One small voice in the universe

JOJO One true friend in the universe

BOTH Please believe in me ...

HORTON (softly, to his clover) Hello...hello?

JOJO (startled) Hello?

HORTON (startled as well) Who's there?

JOJO It's me, Jojo. The Mayor's son.

HORTON I'm Horton. The Elephant

JOJO Are you real, or are you a very large think?

HORTON Oh, I'm real, all right. I would state that in ink.

JOJO In my thinks, I imagine a lot of strange things And I go to strange places, as if I had wings! I love a good think!

HORTON Well, for me that goes double.

JOJO Sometimes my thinks are what get me in trouble.

HORTON When you think, do you dream?

JOJO In bright colors!

HORTON Me too. And I go to strange places Like Solla Sollew!

JOJO When you think, do you think You could fly to the stars?

HORTON Little friend, no one else Could have thinks such as ours!

(HORTON and JOJO imagine they are flying through the starry universe.)

HORTON JOJO Yes, I have wings. I have wings And I can fly I can fly ... Around the moon And far beyond the sky Beyond the sky ... You called my name And you set me free- One small voice in the universe

JOJO One true friend in the universe

BOTH Who believes in me.

HORTON Goodnight Jojo.

JOJO Goodnight Horton. See you in Solla Sollew!

(HORTON exits and JOJO goes to sleep. Suddenly, THE CAT pops up behind JOJO's bed and shakes him awake.)

CAT Wake up! The scene's over! There's more to be heard. There goes our hero. Who enters?

JOJO The bird!