Marry Me A Little

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 4:47pm

One of Sondheim's finest:

Marry me a little,
Love me just enough.
Cry, but not too often,
Play, but not too rough.
Keep a tender distance
so we'll both be free.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!
Marry me a little,
Do it with a will.
Make a few demands
I'm able to fulfill.
Want me more than others,
Not exclusively.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!
I'm ready now!

You can be my best friend,
I can be your right arm.
We'll go through a fight or two--
No harm, no harm.
We'll look not too deep,
We'll go not too far.
We won't have to give up a thing,
We'll stay who we are.
Right?
Okay, then.
I'm ready!
I'm ready now!

Someone--
Marry me a little,
Love me just enough.
Warm and sweet and easy,
Just the simple stuff.
Keep a tender distance
So we'll both be free.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!

Marry me a little,
Body, heart, and soul.
Passionate as hell
But always in control.
Want me first and foremost,
Keep me company.
That's the way it ought to be.
I'm ready!
I'm ready now!

Oh, how gently we'll talk,
Oh, how softly we'll tread.
All the stings,
The ugly things
We'll keep unsaid.
We'll build a cocoon
Of love and respect.
You promise whatever you like,
I'll never collect.
Right?
Okay, then.
I'm ready.
I'm ready now.
Someone--

I'm ready!

[BT]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 4:50pm

Pardon me, is everybody here?
Because if everybody's
Here I want to thank you all for coming to the wedding. I'd ap-
Preciate your going even more, I mean, you must have lots of
Better things to do. And not a word of it to Paul. Remember
Paul? You know, the man I'm gonna marry, but I'm not because I
Wouldn't ruin anyone as wonderful as he is--


Thank you all
For the gifts and the flowers.
Thank you all,
Now it's back to the showers.
Don't tell Paul,
But I'm not getting married today.


Bless this day, tragedy of life,
Husband joined to wife.
The heart sinks down and feels dead
This dreadful day.


Listen everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for--a
Wedding, what's a wedding? It's a prehistoric ritual where
Everybody promises fidelity forever, which is
Maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard, and which is
Followed by a honeymoon, where suddenly he'll realize he's
Saddled with a nut and wanna kill me and he should.


Thanks a bunch,
But I'm not getting married.
Go have lunch,
'Cause I'm not getting married.
You've been grand,
But I'm not getting married.
Don't just stand there,
I'm not getting married.
And don't tell Paul
But I'm not getting married today!


Go! Can't you go?
Why is nobody listening?
Goodbye! Go and cry
At another person's wake.
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.


Listen everybody, I'm afraid you didn't hear, or do you
Want to see a crazy lady fall apart in front of you? It
Isn't only Paul who may be ruining his life, you know, we'll
Both of us be losing our identities--I telephoned my
Analyst about it but he said to see him Monday, and by
Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson, with the other garbage.


I'm not well,
So I'm not getting married.
You've been swell,
But I'm not getting married.
Clear the hall
'Cause I'm not getting married.
Thank you all
But I'm not getting married.
And don't tell Paul,
But I'm not getting married today!


Bless this bride, totally insane,
Slipping down the drain,
And bless this day in our hearts
As it starts to rain.


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.


Look, I didn't want to have to tell you,
But I may be coming down with hepatitis
And I think I'm gonna faint,
So if you wanna see me faint,
I'll do it happily,
But wouldn't it be funnier
To go and watch a funeral?
So thank you for the
Twenty-seven dinner plates and
Thirty-seven butter knives and
Forty-seven paperweights and
Fifty-seven candleholders


One more thing I'm not getting married.
Softly said But I'm not getting married
With this ring See, I'm not getting married
I thee wed Still, I'm not getting married.


Let us pray,
That I'm not
Getting married today!

[feinstein9]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 5:54pm

someone to need you too much
someone to know you too well
somone to pull you up short
and put you through hell
and give you support
for being alive

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 6:00pm

Have an eggroll Mr. Goldstone!