Matt_g asked me this question not too long ago, my answer comes from the PM I sent back to him:
Well, the Act 1 Finale of 'Sweeney Todd' ends with an outstanding song called 'A Little Priest.' Sweeney has just murdered his first victim and Mrs. Lovett trys to tell him her idea, without actually telling him. (Her idea is to use the meat from the body to cook in her pies, because she runs a pie shop and 'business needs a lift, debts to be erased, think of it as thrift, as a gift, if you get my drift') So, Sweeney understands and they sing a song about the pies and the different occupations and how they would taste. The song is full of great double meanings
Anyway the songs begins like this:
Todd (spoken): What is that?
Lovvett (sung): It's priest, have a little priest
Todd: Is it really good?...
Lovett: Sir, its too good at least...Then again they don't commit sins of the flesh...so its pretty fresh
Todd: Awful lot of fat...
Lovett: Only where he sat...
Todd: Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
Lovett: No, you see the trouble with poet is, how do you know it's deceased? Try the Priest
Later on in the song there is this lyric:
Lovett: Beadle isn't bad 'till you smell it, but notice how well it's been greased....Stick To Priest
And my name comes from that lyric....anyway, that was too long...sorry
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The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.