The Greatest Showman

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Ladies and gents, this is the

moment you've waited for.

Been searching in the dark, your sweat

soaking through the floor.

And buried in your bones there's

an ache that you can't ignore.

Taking your breath, stealing your mind.

And all that was real is left behind.

Don't fight it, it's coming

for you, running at ya.

It's only this moment, don't

care what comes after.

Your fever dream, can't

you see it getting closer.

Just surrender 'cause you

feel the feeling taking over.

It's fire, it's freedom,

it's flooding open.

It's a preacher in the pulpit

and you'll find devotion.

There's something breaking at the brick of

every wall it's holding all that you know,

so tell me do you wanna go?

Where it's covered in

all the colored lights.

Where the runaways

are running the night.

Impossible comes true,

it's taking over you.

Oh, this is the greatest show.

We light it up, we won't come down.

And the sun can't stop us now.

Watching it come true,

it's taking over you.

Oh, this is the greatest show.

It's everything you ever want.

It's everything you ever need.

And it's here right in front of you.

This is where you wanna be.

It's everything you ever want.

It's everything you ever need.

And it's here right in front of you.

This is where you wanna be.

It's everything you ever want

It's everything you ever need.

And it's here right in front of you.

This is where you wanna be.

It's everything you ever want.

It's everything you ever need.

And it's here right in front of you.

I understand, yes. Thank you

very much, Mr. Jeffrey. Thank you.

You have the money

by the end of the day.

Let's go.

Phineas, hurry up. We are

gonna miss the train.

Stand up straight.

Wipe that muck off.

Keep up.

Arm extended, elbow out.

Sip, and never slurp.

Begin here, arm extended...

elbow out.

Keep your cup level.

Low your cup.

Shall we do it again?

Arm extended, elbow out.

Gracefully.

Charity, come here.

Your dress. Is this how we

have taught you to behave?

It's my fault, sir.

I made her laugh.

Well, thank you

for your honesty.

Stay away from my daughter.

- How did you get out?

- The window.

Father is sending me

to finishing school.

I don't know what my future will be.

I do.

I close my eyes

and I can see.

The world that's

waiting up for me.

That I call my own.

Through the dark,

through the door

Through where no one's

been before

but it feels like home.

They can say, they can

say it all sounds crazy.

They can say, they can

say I've lost my mind.

I don't care, I don't

care, so call me crazy.

We can live in a world

that we design

'Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors

fill my head.

A million dreams are

keeping me awake.

I think of what

the world could be.

A vision of the one I see.

A million dreams is

all it's gonna take.

A million dreams for the

world we're gonna make.

They can say, they can

say it all sounds crazy.

They can say, they can

say we've lost our minds.

Charity!

I don't care, I don't care

if they call us crazy.

run away to a world

that we designed.

Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.

A million dreams are

keeping me awake.

I think of what

the world could be.

A vision of

the one I see.

A million dreams is

all it's gonna take.

No.

A million dreams for the

world we're gonna make.

Newspapers. Amazing stories

from around the world.

A million dreams are

keeping me awake.

I think of what the

world could be.

A vision of

the one I see.

A million dreams is

all it's gonna take.

A million dreams for the

world we're gonna make.

Come join the

Great American Railroad.

Three meals a day. A roof over your head.

Fair and ample wages.

Come, make your fortune.

See the open plains of America.

Opportunity awaits you sir,

out on the rails.

Sir I, I know I don't

come from much

but I will take care

of your daughter

and I will give her a

life as grand as this one.

Goodbye, mother.

She'll be back.

Sooner or later she will get tired

of your life of having nothing

and she will keep

running back home.

Every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.

A million dreams are

keeping me awake.

I think of what the

world could be.

A vision of the one I see.

A million dreams is all

it's gonna take.

A million dreams for the

world we're gonna make.

However big,

however small.

Let me be part of it all.

Share your dreams with me.

You may be right,

you may be wrong.

But say that

you'll bring me along.

To the world you see.

To the world I close

my eyes to see.

I close my eyes to see

Cause every night I lie in bed.

The brightest colors fill my head.

A million dreams are

keeping me awake.

A million dreams,

a million dreams.

I think of what the world could be.

A vision of what I see.

A million dreams is all

it's gonna take.

A million dreams for the

world we're gonna make.

For the world

we're gonna make.

- Mr. Smith?

- Yeah.

Have a look at this, here?

Yes, yes, I see it.

Thank you, Chalmers,

that will do.

Sir. Phineas Taylor Barnum.

If I may sir,

I believe I have

skills and ideas...

that go well beyond counting

numbers into an adding machine.

I have read about this

German fellow, Lilienthal...

I believe he's developed a glider

that could take a

man in the air, sir.

Isn't that amazing?

I mean,

if you were to apply that to this business,

it would be revolutionary.

Gentlemen. Can I have your attention?

You are all dismissed.

Bankrupt?

I thought the company had

a dozen trading ships.

Yes, at the bottom of

the South China Seas.

A typhoon sank them all.

- Tinker it.

- Oh, you're in for it.

- Hey.

- Oh God. You are home early.

And until further notice.

Oh I didn't think you

were along for that job.

Or any job apparently.

That's what makes our life

together so exciting.

Charity.

- This isn't the life I promised you.

- But I have everything I want.

- What about the magic?

- What do you call those two girls?

Hey, you partners, look who.

Daddy!

- Come here.

- Did you bring a present?

Present, for what?

- For my birthday.

- Your what?

- My birthday.

- It's not your birthday.

Okay, I do have a present.

But not just any present.

Oh no.

The most amazing

birthday present ever.

This extraordinary machine was originally

created by Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years ago.

But the blueprints have

been lost for centuries,

until just last week,

on a stormy night...

when a sunken pirate ship washed

up on the shores of Nantucket.

They found skeletons and treasures...

and the blueprints were recovered

by none other than JW Mercantile.

The blueprints crossed

my desk very briefly...

but I managed to commit

them to memory...

and if I had remembered correctly...

Happy birthday, Caroline.

This is a wishing machine.

You tell it your wishes...

and it keeps them safe

until they come true.

Even if you forget them,

they are always there.

- Can I tell a wish?

- Step right up. Go ahead.

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