All I Ever Wanted (with Queen’s Reprise)

All I Ever Wanted (with Queen’s Reprise)

Amick Byram & Linda Dee Shayne

Moses follows Tzipporah as she escapes from the palace. While following her, he bumps into his sister Miriam and brother Aaron, who recognise Moses even though he does not recognise them. Moses grows angry at their claims that they are related, so a distraught Miriam sings the last lullaby that their mother Yocheved sang to Moses as a baby as she set him adrift on the Nile.

Moses remembers the lullaby and, completely shocked, runs through the Hebrews' lodgings before returning home where he tries to confirm to himself that the palace is where he truly belongs.

At the end of the song, Moses drifts off to sleep and has a nightmare about the events that brought him to the palace. Stylised as Egyptian wall art, Moses watches as Pharoah’s soldiers are seen charging through the Hebrews' lodgings and snatching babies from screaming and pleading mothers. Moses' mother and siblings race to the river to set Moses adrift in a basket, and the nightmare ends as adult Moses finds himself tumbling down with the bodies of slaughtered babies falling around him. Moses' nightmare is confirmed as reality by his father Pharaoh Seti, who refers to the Hebrews as “only slaves”.

The next day Moses’s adoptive mother, Queen Tuya, comforts him and says that it was fate that brought him to her as a baby.