"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 offa your rump" -You Could Drive a Person Crazy - COMPANY
oh bobbybaby! i thought of this one before i even openned the post. it's one of my favorites!
Have you explored the town? It is remote isn't it? And provincial, don't you think? And everything so brown! The streets, the trees, the rivers even Though there are some lovely gardens. Oh, I could show you gardens!
"Everyone tells tiny lies...what's important really is the SIZE! Only three more tries and we'll have our prize..when the end's in sight you'll realize..when the end is right, it justfies the bean!!"
"Princes wait there in the world it's true...princes yes but wolves and humans too."
So they're not intricate but I love them..and so many more.
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
"Don't take away the baby they shreaked and screamed. But I did and I hid her where she'll never be reached. Your mother cried, your father died and for extra measure, I admit it was a pleasure. I said, sorry I'm still not molified and I laid a little spell on them. Poo..you too son. That your family tree would always be a barren one. (laughter). So there's no more fuss and there's no more scenes..and my garden thrives. You should see my nectarines. But I'm telling you the same I tell kings and queens. Don't ever never ever mess around with my greens. Especially the beans." Whew.
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
Frogs! We're the frogs! The adorable frogs! Not your hoity-toity intellectuals, Not your hippy-dippy homosexuals Just your easy going, simple, Warm hearted, cold blooded Frogs Of the pond And the fronds we never go beyond.
By the sea, in our nest, We could share our kippers With the odd paying guest From the weekend trippers, Have a nice sunny suite For the guest to rest in — Now and then, you could do the guest in — By the sea. Married nice and proper, By the sea — Bring along your chopper
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
"i'll sit on his knee get to know him intimately..." --Forum
pretty much all of "Impossible" from Forum SENEX He's a handsome lad of twenty, I'm thirty-nine . . . It's possible!
HERO Older men know so much more . . .
SENEX in a way, I'm forty-four . . .
HERO Next to him, I'll be a bore . . .
SENEX All right fifty!
HERO Then again, he is my father, I ought to trust, Impossible!
SENEX Then again, with love at my age, Sometimes it's just Impossible!
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
Such lovely Blue Danube-y music How can you be still? -- Do I Hear a Waltz?
And, though not exactly intricate, one of my favorites from the same show:
The shiny stuff is tomatoes The salad lies in a group The curly stuff is potatoes The stuff that moves is soup Anything that is white is sweet Anything that is brown is meat Anything that is gray, don't eat
We'll never make our fortune Just by sittin' on the porch n' Looking wistful, When there are nuggets by the fistful... Gold from BOUNCE
Everyone hates me yes, yes Being the mayoress, yes All of the peasants throw rocks in my presence Which causes me nervous distress, yes Me and My Town from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Gosh I loooooooooove this thread.......thanks so much folks.................you are bringing lots of joy into my household by refreshing us with some amazing Sondheim lyrics...........
Thanks so much.........Please keep em coming!
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
As she sits At the Ritz With her splits of Mumms, She starts to pine For a stein With her village chums. But with a Schlitz In her mitts Down at Fitzroy's bar, She dreams of the Ritz, oh, It's so Schizo.
-"Uptown, Downtown" (cut from FOLLIES, now part of MARRY ME A LITTLE
There's Something About a War A GREAT song. Too bad it was cut. I had to include the whole song 'cause its all hysterical.
I don't know how to say it but There's something about a war Mere words cannot convey it but There's something about a war It's noisy and its crowded And you have to stand in line But there's something about a war That's divine
You march until your bleary but There's something about a war The company is dreary but There's something about a war Your fungernails get broken and the food is often vile Still there's something about a war Makes you smile
The rain may rust your armor Your straps may be too tight But decapitate a farmer and your heart feels light But there's something about a war There's somethinga war There's someting about a war That makes this little old world all right
Oh, its tread, tread tread Through the mud, mud, mud And its shed, shed, shed All the blood, blood, ugh There's something about a war
Oh its plunge, plunge, plunge Through the dust, dust, dust And its lunge, lunge, lunge And its thrust, thrust, ughhh There's something about a war
You know it isnt massacres And luaghter all day long Still there's something about a war Like a song
A warriors' work is never done He never can take a rest There's a land too overrun And people to be opressed
There's always a town to pillage And a city to be laid waste There's always a little village Entirely to be erased And centinels to sack, of course And temples to attack, of course And children to annihilate Priestesses to violate Houses to destroy-HEY! Women to enjoy-HEY! Statues to deface-HEY! Others to debase-HEY! Virgins to assualt-HEY! HALT! HEY!!!
It's hurry, hurry, hurry But there's something about a war It's worry after worry But there's something about a war It isn't all the drama and heroics it may seem But there's something about a war That's a scream
Ther'e never time for reading But there's something about a war And elephants keep breeding But there's something about a war You frequently feel lonely when the enemy has gone Still there's something about a war That goes on And on And on
You sulk when someone's suing For temporary truce Then another war starts brewing And soon breaks loose There's something about a war Something about a war Something about a war
it isn't just the glory Or the gorier details that cause a warrior to smirk Its the knowledge that you'll never be out of work
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
He's only a boy. Why does he think he loves me? Maybe he loves what I can do for him. Maybe he thinks that I'll come through for him. Maybe the moon is cheese. And yet maybe Maybe Something real is happening here But baby, You're a baby And the man I'm married to needs me near Okay, the moon is cheese! And I love the guy I shouldn't, And I don't the one I should Ah, but love is blind And I go for the kind that I finally find Is no good! It started out like a song It started quiet and slow With no surprise And then one morning I woke to realize We had a good thing going. It's not that nothing went wrong... -Gussie's Act Two Opening (Merrily We Roll Along)
Why did you do it, Johnny? Throw it all away? Why did you do it, boy Not just destroy The pride and joy Of Illinois But all the USA?
from Assassins, as well as:
I say, "Listen you runt, You're not pulling this stunt No gentleman pushes his way to the front" I say, "Move to the back" Which he does with a grunt Which is how I saved Roosevelt!
My father is a bastard, my ma's an S.O.B. My grandpa's always plastered, my grandma pushes tea My sister wears a moustache, my brother wears a dress Leapin' lizards, that's why I'm a mess!