All I Ever Wanted (version 5)

Norman, shocked after his awkward encounter with Hiram and other Hebrew mice at their encampment, continued to run past all the slaves' quarters and back to the temple, trying hard to catch his breath.

Norman: Gleaming in the moonlight

Norman saw the lit entrance to the temple and immediately ran in, hoping to make it.

Cool and clean and all I've ever known

All I ever wanted

As he ran in, he passed columns of alabaster stone pillars and incense lamps. Norman ran to one of the pillars and embraced it for comfort, and looked upon something else.

Sweet perfumes of incense

Graceful rooms of alabaster stone

All I ever wanted

Norman saw the statues of himself, Adrian, Mousetoria, and Rathoug standing together, remembering all the good times they had since he was found by Mousetoria as a baby.

This is my home

With my father, mother, brother

Oh so noble, oh so strong

He opened the door to his chamber and admired all the lovely trinkets neatly organized around the room. He noticed his dogs, Jock, Trusty, and Toby running up to him in happiness. Norman laughed and hugged them as they licked his face.

Now I am home

Here among my trappings and belongings

I belong

And if anybody doubts it

They couldn't be more wrong

Norman pulled another curtain and saw a curved sword of his own, called a khopesh. He picked it up, raised it in the air and smiled at it. He pointed it at the wall and smiled again, looking at a hieroglyph of both him and Adrian with their parents and another of the boys having a chariot race throughout Egypt.

I am a sovereign prince of Egypt

A son of the proud history that's shown

Etched on ev'ry wall

But Norman, a sad look on his face, began to doubt himself shortly after looking at it. He backed up and lightly bumped into another hieroglyph, but it was on a short pyramid with no pointed top. The top was flat. He sat down on the floor, slowly crossed his arms, and closed his eyes.

Surely this is all I ever wanted

All I ever wanted

All I ever wanted

As Norman went to sleep, he thought, or maybe hoped, what he knew about himself being a prince of Egypt was all true, but he did not suspect something else was going to plague his mind that night.