Listening to this album has actually markedly improved my opinion of the show; when I saw it I thought it was simply delightful, now I'm realizing how brilliant these lyrics really are on closer study...
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.