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Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler perform 'The Next Ten Minutes' in this official audio release. The song explores a couple's playful negotiation of time and commitment, blending humor and heartfelt emotion as they consider spending their lives together.

Ben Platt & Rachel Zegler - “The Next Ten Minutes” (Official Audio) ♪ (Lyrics):

That one's

John Lennon there.

No, the Dakota.

The San Remo is up a few blocks.

Have you

been inside

the museum?

>> Will you share your

life with me for the next 10 minutes?

For the next 10

minutes?

We can

handle that.

We could watch

the waves.

We could watch the sky.

Or just

sit and wait as the time ticks by.

But if we make it till

then, could I ask you again

for another

10?

>> And

if

you in turn agree to the next 10

minutes and the next 10

minutes till the morning comes, then just holding

you might compel me to ask you for more.

>> There are

so many lives I want

to share with you.

I will never

be complete

I am not always on time.

Please, don't expect that from me.

I will be

late, but if you can just wait, I will make it eventually.

Not like it's in my control.

Not like I'm proud of the fact, but

anything other

than being exactly on time, I can do.

I don't know why people run.

I don't know why things fall through.

I don't know how anybody survives in this life without

someone like

you.

I could protect and preserve.

I could say no and goodbye.

Jamie?

Why?

I want to be >>

>> I want to bear your child.

>> I want

to die knowing I had >>

>> a long,

full life in your arms.

>> That I can't do.

>> Forever >>

>> with you.

>> your life with me forever?

>> next >>

>> lifetimes, Forever.

for a million years, till the world explodes, till there's no one

left

who has ever known us apart?

>> There are

so many dreams I need to share. There are so

many

years I need to

be with you.

>> I will never be complete >>

>> I will never be

alive

I will never

change the world until I do.

That's

the San Remo.

>> Isn't that

the museum?

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