A lot from Assassins, but in particular: "But traitors just get jeers and boos not visits to their graves While Lincoln who got mixed reviews Because of you, John, now gets only raves."
When a person's personality is personable, He shouldn't oughta sit like a lump. It's harder than a matador coercin' a bull To try to get you off-a your rump.
- You Could Drive A Person Crazy, Company
The hands on the clock turn, But don't sing a nocturne Just yet...
- Night Waltz, A Little Night Music
You'll just leave him a clue. For example: A shoe. And then see what he'll do. Now it's he and not you who is stuck with a shoe In a stew In the goo And you've learned something too. Something you never knew On the steps of the palace!
just so much better then Being Alive “Someone to need you too much Someone to read you too well Someone to bleed you of all The things you don’t want to tell- That’s happily ever after, Ever, ever, ever after In hell.” (Happily Ever After)
"It started out like a song, we started quiet and slow with no surprise, Then one morning I woke to realize we have a good thing going. It's not that nothing went wrong, some angry moment of course, but just a few, And only moments no more because we knew we had a good thing going." Good Thing Going is one of the most beautiful songs ever written
"It's the fragment, not the day. It's the pebble, not the stream. It's the ripple, not the sea That is happening. Not the building but the beam, Not the garden but the stone, Only cups of tea And history And someone in a tree." someone in a tree is the best song ever!
Ok, so my production of Company opens tonight, so I'm on a Company kick...bear with me. Here are a few I love..
One more thing, Softly said. With this rign, I the wed.
If you're quick for a kick you could pick up a christening, But please, on my knees, there's a human life at stake!
Or perhaps, i'll collapse, in the apse, right before you all.
Knock-knock! Is anybody there? Knock-knock! It really isn't fair. Knock-knock! I'm workin' all my charms. Knock-knock! A zombie's in my arms. All that sweet affection! What is wrong? Where's the loose connection? How long, O Lord, how long?
Exclusive you! Elusive you! Will any person ever get the juice of you?
"Go, can't you go, Look you know I adore you all But why watch me die Like Eliza on the ice Look perhaps I'll collapse In the apse right before you all So take back the cake Burn the shoes and boil the rice"
There are so many other good ones - but one more I love:
"A weekend in the country we should try it" "How I wish we'd been asked" "A weekend in the country, peace and quiet" "We'll go masked" "A weekend in the country" "Uninvited? They'll consider it odd" "A weekend in country, I'm delighted!" "Oh my God." "And the shooting should be pleasant, if the weather's not too rough Happy birthday, it's your present" "but..." "You haven't been getting out nearly enough"
The whole darn lyrics in Assassins, Sweeney, and Company.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Has anyone else ever used the word "schlepper" in a song?
(I agree that this lyric is brilliant: "The lord's my employer, and now he's my lawyer." But, then again, so many are. How can you pick a "favorite"???)
"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"
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"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"
"You're sorry-grateful, Regretful-happy. Why look for answers When none occur? You'll always be what you always were, Which has nothing to do with, all to do with her."
Hey fella, feel like you're a failure, baliff on your tail, your wife run off for good?
Hey fella, feel misunderstood? Come 'ere and kill a president
- Assassins
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)