Favorite Sondheim Lyric?- Page 2

[dominique]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 6:43pm

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother - they're here.

"Losing my timing this late/in my career" always chokes me up.
Updated On: 3/29/08 at 06:43 PM

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 6:46pm

For sheer skill (from Follies):

"In the depths of her interior
Were fears she was inferior.
And something even eerier.
But no one dared to query her superior exterior."

But my current favourite is in my signature

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 6:48pm

East: That lyric right there shows why, as a lyricist, his skill be touched.

Posted: 3/29/08 at 6:49pm

I feel charming
Oh so charming
It's alarming
How charming
I feel.

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:07pm

"The child is so sweet and the girls are so rapturous. Isn't it lovely how artists can capture us?" SITPWG

"Stay with me the world is dark and wild. Stay a child while you can be a child." ITW

"And take extra care with strangers, even flowers have their dangers, and though scary is exciting, nice is different than good."

"Stop worrying if your vision is new. Let others make that decision, they usually do." SITPWG

Alllll of "Getting Married Today" from Company

im sure there's more...

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:27pm

From Sweeney: And though I'll think of you, I guess, until the day I die/ I think I'll miss you less and less as every day goes by, Johanna! It always breaks my heart...

also, From SITPWG:Look! I made hat! Where there never was a hat!
and
And how you're always turning back too late from the grass and the stick and the dog and the light/ How the kind of woman willing to wait is not the kind that you want to find waiting to return you to the night.

Assassins: Damn my soul if you must/ let my body turn to dust/ let it mingle with the ashes of the country/Let them curse me to hell/ leave it for history to tell/ what I did, I did well/ and i did it for the country!/ Let them cry "dirty traitor!"/They will understand it later...

and, of course: Today, the minutes seem like hours, the hours go so slowly, and still the sky is light!/Oh moon, grow bright! and make this endless day, endless night!

[dramarama2]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:44pm

"It's a herb that's superb for disturbances at sea!"

[morosco]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 8:07pm

"Should there be a marital squabble,
Available Bob'll
Be there with the glue."

"Starting now I bat a thousand!
This time, boys, I'm taking the bows and

everything's coming up Rose!"

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 8:56pm

"Hold your hats and hallelujah, Momma's gonna show it to ya" and "By the sea, Mr. Todd, that's the life I covet/By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, I know you'd love it."

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:22pm

Well, this is a really weird one, It's sung by Clara, right before Fosca makes her first appearance in Passion. It sets up the next scene without ever hinting what's about to develop. It's very cunning...

Yesterday I walked through the park
To the place where we met.
Afterwards I sat on the bench
Where we sat all that sultry afternoon.

I thought about our room, our secret room
Where we were happy
And where we shall be happy again
Some day.

I see us in our room, our secret room,
And I don't feel so alone any more...
(Against her song, the Chopinesque piano music
which we heard before begins to play)
I close my eyes, imagining that you are there,
Imagining your fingers touching mine,
Imagining our room,
The bed, the secrecy, the world outside,
Your mouth on mine...

[americanboy99]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:31pm

Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
No one is alone. Truly.
No one is alone.
Sometimes people leave you.
Halfway through the wood.
Others may decieve you.
You decide whats good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone.

[heathurrr]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 11:40pm

I also love

"That might be effective, my body's alright
... but not in perspective and not the the light" - Now/Later/Soon from ALNM

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 3/29/08 at 11:44pm

Not a day goes by —
Not a single day —

But you're somewhere a part of my life,
And it looks like you'll stay.

As the days go by,
I keep thinking, "When does it end?"

That it can't get much better much longer.
But it only gets better and stronger
And deeper and nearer
And simpler and freer
And richer and clearer

And no,
Not a day goes by,
Not a blessed day
But you somewhere come into my life
And you don't go away.

And I have to say
If you do, I'll die.

I want day after day
After day after day

After day after day
After day after day
After day

Till the days go by,
Till the days go by,
Till the days go by!

Simple and lovely.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 4:31am

Posted: 3/30/08 at 5:38am

I telephoned my analyst about it and he said to see him Monday, but by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage--

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 8:46am

currently:

TODD:
Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
LOVETT:
No, y'see, the trouble with poet is
How do you know it's deceased?
Try the priest!

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:50am

From the movie version of "Little Night Music", since they cut "Liasons", they had to get Hermiome Gingold into the score somewhere.

So, they brought her character into "A Weekend in the Country". Mme. Armfeldt sings to her staff:

I'll receive them in the red room/And impress them with a feast/Then retire to my bedroom/Where I'm going to be staying until Monday at least...

From "Company":

When a person's personality is personable, he shouldn't oughtta sit like a lump
It's harder than a matador coercin' a bull to try to get you offa your rump.
(Though with all of the brickbats that Sondheim has tossed at the lyrics of Lorenz Hart, "personable/coercin' a bull" is one that Larry would have been proud of.)

The song "In the Movies" is just a treasure trove of funny lyrics:
"You start out with a bagel and end up with Conrad Nagel, on the screen. But in life you wind up right behind the pillar in the mezzanine"

[paradox_error]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 10:03am

It's the Day of the Rabbit, my Lord.
There's but one day remaining,
And beside the fact it's raining,
There are ships in the bay
Which are sitting there today
Just exactly where they sat
On the Day of the Rat —
Oh, and speaking of that, my Lord,
When the ships came our way
On that first disturbing day
And I gave consideration
To this letter they convey,
I decided if there weren't
Any Shogun to receive it,
It would act as a deterrant
Since they'd have no place to leave it,
And they might go away, my Lord …
Do you see what i say, my Lord?

In the tea, my Lord,
The chrysanthemum tea —
An informal variation
On the normal recipe.
Though I know my plan had merit,
It's been slow in execution.
If there's one thing you inherit,
It's your father's constitution,
And you're taking so long, my Lord …
Do you think I was wrong, my Lord? …
No, you must let me speak:
When the Shogun is weak,
Then the tea must be strong, my Lord …
My Lord — ?
(Shogun dies.)
The blossom falls on the mountain.
The mountain falls on the blossom.
All things fall

[MythosEdddy]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 10:07am

It's almost a throw-away line for but I find it really cute:
"I sort of hate to ask it
but do you have a basket?"

And if that counts as a lyric:
"Locksmith?"

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 12:28pm

'And in that darkness when I'm blind with what I can't forget' -from Sweeney.

If I was ever to get a musical-related tattoo (which I probably never will), I'd get that put somewhere on me.

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:39pm

"I had a dream. I dreamed it for you, June. It wasn't for me Herbie. And if it wasn't for me, then where would you be, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?!" gosh i get goosebumps every time

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 2:38pm

I love anything from INTO THE WOODS

Updated On: 3/30/08 at 02:38 PM

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 2:54pm

"Have to hand it to her --
Wot I calls
Enterprise
Poppin' pussies into pies!
Wouldn't do in my shop!
Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick!
And I'm tellin' you, them ****cats is quick!"

That last line has to be one of the funniest ever written.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 4:07pm

As we pass
Through arrangements of shadows
Towards the verticals of trees
Forever

Updated On: 3/30/08 at 04:07 PM

[murron]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 4:20pm

(From Sweeney Todd)

What is that?

It's fop.
Finest in the shop.
And we have some shepherd's pie peppered
With actual shepherd on top!
And I've just begun --
Here's the politician, so oily
It's served with a doily,
Have one!

Put it on a bun.
Well, you never know if it's going to run!

Try the friar,
Fried, it's drier!

No, the clergy is really
Too coarse and too mealy!

Then actor,
That's compacter!

Yes, and always arrives overdone!
I'll come again when you have JUDGE on the menu!

Wait! True, we don't have judge yet,
but we've got something you might fancy even better.
What's that?
Executioner!

Have charity towards the world, my pet!

Yes, yes, I know, my love!

We'll take the customers that we can get!

High-born and low, my love!

We'll not discriminate great from small!
No, we'll serve anyone,
Meaning anyone,
And to anyone
At all!