Lyrics: Ocean’s 10 (Ocean’s 11)

This duet song for Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan was added in the 2019 Cosmos Troupe production of Ocean’s 11, and appears midway through Act 1. 

I have not yet seen this production yet, but I have translated the lyrics to accompany the upcoming script release, in order to make my translation apply to as many versions as possible. I may edit the translation once I have seen the actual performance.

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Lyrics: JACKPOT (Ocean’s 11)

English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka original musical based on the American film series.

Line attributions are from memory and may be slightly inaccurate.

Ensemble:
Hey! Once more!
Oh~ nobody can stop us
Hey! Once more!
No matter what, we don’t care what else goes on
Once more! Once more!

If we win once we’ll try once more
Even if we lose we’ll try once more
We don’t know when to stop
We don’t even notice the time passing

Even if they say it’s 100,000 to 1
We still want to try our luck
If things go my way
Maybe I’ll be the one to win!

Once more! Once more!
Once more! Jackpot!

Money’s not the only thing
We can catch love here as well
If things go my way
Maybe I’ll be able to win back her heart!

Jackpot! Jackpot!
Jackpot! Jackpot!

Terry (Tess):
Even if the end
Of the world were to come (Adam and Eve…)
I will live on! (Where were they going…)

Ensemble:
Jackpot! Jackpot!
Jackpot! Jackpot!

Danny:
Even if I’m fighting alongside my friends
I can only trust in my own destiny
Even if the losses pile up, all I can do
Is believe in my own destiny

Ensemble:
Jackpot! Jackpot!
I’m still aiming for it
Jackpot! Jackpot!
All or nothing!
Jackpot!
I won’t give up
Jackpot!
Until I win
Once more! Jackpot!
We’re going to win!
Jackpot! Once more! Jackpot! Once more!
Jackpot! Once more! Jackpot! Once more!

Lyrics: The Man who Sells Dreams (Ocean’s 11)

English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka original musical based on the American film series.

Terry Benedict:
My old man loved gambling
He ruined himself in the casinos
After he wasted all our savings
Me and my mother were thrown out of our house
In the shadow of the casino’s gaudy illuminations
A woman and child were weeping

But once I considered things
I realized the casino wasn’t at fault–it was only fair
People came to try to purchase their dreams
Therefore if I was the one selling dreams
I could make sure I’d never lose again

I started out as a doorboy
Spying on how the big hotels were run
Then I bought an old, abandoned casino
Once I rebuilt it it was a huge success!

After that I resold it for a profit
My life had finally really begun

Therefore
If it’s to get my hands on what I want
I’ll use any method–who cares if it’s legal?
But what I have for sale
Is the dream of human desire
Money–Money–Money!

If you have money you can buy land
If you have money you can but love
If you have money you can buy youth
If you have money you can buy anything!

There’s no-one who can stop me
I’m not like my old man
“I’m not a failure!”
By selling dreams I can win it all
Even if they call me inhuman
If I can come out on top I don’t care what it takes!

“I am!”

The man who sells dreams!

Lyrics: How I Was Then (Ocean’s 11)

English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka original musical based on the American film series.

Danny:
Oh, Tess, you’ve got to understand
I couldn’t help falling in love with you
I just wanted to make you happy
I wanted to help with the costs of demos and live shows
I would do anything to make you happy

Tess:
I was still a twenty-year-old student
When I first met you
I would sing while I worked
At a little Manhattan club
I would mimic grownup love
In the songs I performed
Then a stylish man turned up
He would come every night and flirt with me
One night during a storm the club closed early
He waited for me and shielded me from the wind
And escorted me to my apartment
I was tricked into thinking he wanted to protect me
So I offered him tea out of gratitude
And that was the start of the whole mistake
But regretting it now won’t take me back
I want you to give me my youth back
Give me back my pure self from back then

Danny:
No matter how many times the police searched for me
I’d never been caught once
They called me the genius swindler:
Danny Ocean
But I ended up falling for a singer in the making
An innocent little college girl
Her milky-white skin was just like an angel’s
And the pimples on her forehead were so cute
I’d never been tied down by a woman
But I waited for her in the storm
And got soaked by the rain walking her home
My chance wasn’t wasted
It was an awkward night of first love
The first time I’d had the happiness of mutual love
Can’t we just start over again from the beginning?
This time we can build up true love
As man and wife

Lyrics: Eden (Ocean’s 11)

English translation of lyrics from the original Takarazuka production based on the American film series.

Tess Ocean:
An eternal paradise created by God
Where humans can be reborn
Your souls can be saved and your bodies refreshed
Eden–where the spring of life overflows
Eden–where the fruit of love grows
Let’s meet there again in love
At the garden where Adam and Eve reunite:
Eden!

Lyrics: Fate City (Ocean’s 11)

English translation of lyrics from the original Takarazuka production based on the films.

Danny Ocean:
Everyone has their dreams
Even if we know our ambitions are fleeting
We’ll bet everything on a single ray of hope
Oh Vegas! Las Vegas!
You can change your destiny at Fate City

Wealth and honor–Family and lovers
Things we lose–Things we gain
Things that remain after we lose everything
Things that vanish just within our grasp
Will it be Heaven or Hell on the other side of the door?
No matter which I’ll take it on like a man!

Fate City–Fate City
I’ll change my destiny!
Fate City–Fate City
Even if I bet my life!

Fate City–Fate City
Oh Vegas! Las Vegas!
Oh Fate City–Fate City

Fate City–Fate City
I’ll change my destiny!
Fate City–Fate City
Even if I bet my life!
Fate City–Fate City
Las Vegas!