Favorite Stephen Sondheim lyrics

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 8:23pm

Updated On: 10/11/16 at 08:23 PM

[somechrysanthemumtea]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 8:33pm

Then you career from career to career?

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 8:42pm

It's a very short road from the pinch and the punch to the paunch and the pouch and the pension. 

[bwayboy22]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 8:46pm

No! Not even figs...raisins! Ah, liaisons!

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 9:26pm

He said, "alright!" But it wasn't quite. Cuz I caught him in the autumn in my garden one night.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 9:51pm

What if her broach is

Made of glass

And her costumes unravel?

What if her coach is

Second class?

She at least gets to travel.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 9:58pm

....and if you're real good

i'll make you feel good...

i want your spirits to climb!

so, let me entertain you

and we'll have a real good time, yes sir!

we'll have...a real good tiiiiiiiiiiiii----hiiiiiiiiiime!

 

[Relevance81491]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:04pm

The sun comes up, I think about you
The coffee cup, I think about you
I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind

The morning ends, I think about you
I talk to friends and think about you
And do they know it's like I'm losing my mind

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:30pm

I feel pretty...

oh so pretty...

i feel pretty, and witty, and gay!

and I pity any girl who isn't me today! 

Updated On: 10/11/16 at 10:30 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:33pm

I have a moo cow, a new cow, a true cow named Caroline...

She's an extra special friend of mine...moo, moo, moo, moo..

I like everything about her fine...moo, moo, moo, moo! 

[smidge]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:37pm

CarlosAlberto said: "I feel pretty...

oh so pretty...

i feel pretty, and witty, and gay!

and I pity any girl who isn't me today! 

 

What I say to myself every morning.

 

[Relevance81491]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:47pm

The hobbies you pursue together,
Savings you accrue together,
Looks you misconstrue together,
That make marriage a joy.

[RJ14]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:47pm

There are bugs on her dugs
There are flies in her eyes
There's a lump on her rump
Big enough to be a hump

 

AND

 

We've no time to sit and dither

While her withers wither with her

 

 

[Oak2]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 10:55pm

Pantaloons and Tunics!

Courtesans and Eunuchs!

Funerals and Chases!

Baritones and Basses!

Panderers! Philanders! 

Cupidity! Timidity!

Mistakes! Fakes! Rhymes! Crimes!

Tumblers! Grumblers! Bumblers! Fumblers!

No Royal Curse! No Trojan Horse! 

And a happy ending of course!

Goodness and badness, manifest madness

This time it all turns out all right!

Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy TONIGHT!

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 11:01pm

These aren't necessarily what I consider to be his greatest lyrics, but they're special to me and I love them for a number of reasons.

The child is so sweet and the girls are so rapturous.  Isn't it lovely how artists can capture us?  -Sunday in the Park with George 

There's a lot I'll have missed but I'll not have dead when I die and a person should celebrate everything passing by.  -A Little Night Music

Every morning, don't faint, I tend the flowers.  Can you believe it?  Every weekend I paint for umpteen hours.  -Follies

Children need protection just the way they need affection or they wonder and they wander and they run from your little world. -Into the Woods

Smells like piss.  Looks like piss.  This is piss.  Piss with ink.  -Sweeney Todd

Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know, everybody DIIIIIIEEEEESSS! -Company

I DESERVE A F#CKING PRIZE -Assassins

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 5:28am

Not clever, doesn't rhyme, isn't profound out of context, but guts me every time I hear it:

I should have worn green.
I wore green the last time,
The time I was happy.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 6:16am

I chose and my world was shaken. So what?

The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not.

You have to move on.

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 6:23am

The roads you never take
Go through rocky ground
Don't they?
The choices that you make
Aren't all that grim.

The worlds you never see
Still will be around,
Won't they!

[This is one of those threads that make me ache for a "like button"]

Updated On: 10/12/16 at 06:23 AM

[South Florida]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 7:00am

Bring Me My Bride 

[Broadway Geek2]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 7:38am

I'll just leave him a clue:
For example, a shoe.
And then see what he'll do.

Now it's he and not you
Who'll be stuck with a shoe,
In a stew, in the goo.
And I've learned something, too,
Something I never knew,

 

[The Other One]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 7:42am

That might be effective

My body's alright

But not in perspective

And not in the light.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 8:09am

Ordinary daughters, which mine (I fear) is not, tend each asset, spend it wisely while it still endures. Mine tours.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 12:22pm

Tonight, tonight, the world is full of light
With suns and moons all over the place
Tonight, tonight the world is wild and bright
Going mad, shooting sparks into space

Today the world was just an address
A place for me to live in
No better than all right

But here you are and what was just a world is a star tonight
 

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 3:11pm

Anyone can whistle, that's what they say, easy
Anyone can whistle any old day, easy
It's all so simple, relax, let go, let fly
Please someone tell me why can't I

 

[EvanstonDad]

Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:12pm

Oh if life were only moments

Even now and then a bad one

But if life were only moments

Then you'd never know you had one.