Favorite Stephen Sondheim lyrics- Page 2
Favorite Stephen Sondheim lyrics
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#25
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.
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#26
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:21pm
You Are Not Alone.
No One Is Alone.
This whole song makes me cry whenever I hear it, but it's those two lines that always get me. It's not complex, or clever, or profound. It's only 2 sentences, 8 words, 34 characters. But it gives the most beautiful promise that can be given after almost every character has lost a loved one and feel at their lowest: You aren't the only one that is in pain. We all can potentially lose the ones we love, but we will comfort each other in our times of grief, as they will comfort us.
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#27
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:27pm
Fidelity is more than mere display
It's what a man expects from life
Fidelity like mine for Desiree
And Charlotte my devoted wife.
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#28
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:28pm
A favorite of mine:
What's the muddle? In the middle?
That's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle...
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#29
Posted: 10/12/16 at 5:55pm
Alex Kulak2 said: "You Are Not Alone.
No One Is Alone.
This whole song makes me cry whenever I hear it, but it's those two lines that always get me. It's not complex, or clever, or profound. It's only 2 sentences, 8 words, 34 characters. But it gives the most beautiful promise that can be given after almost every character has lost a loved one and feel at their lowest: You aren't the only one that is in pain. We all can potentially lose the ones we love, but we will comfort each other in our times of grief, as they will comfort us.
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That meaning is there, Alex, certainly. But I assume you know Cinderella is also saying, "You are not alone. Every choice you make affects others, for good or ill."
Which only makes the two lines more profound, since they simultaneously express two such different meanings.
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#30
Posted: 10/12/16 at 6:42pm
I know that's the other meaning, and that's another great theme of the show, it's just the meaning I pointed out is a lot more powerful to me for personal reasons.
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Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#31
Posted: 10/12/16 at 6:48pm
Three-way-tie for me:
If this letter seems cold-hearted
It conceals my own distress
Nonetheless,
We must end what never started.
-
I am nothing,
You are wind and devil and God,
Charlie,
Take my blood and my body
For your love.
Let me feel fire,
Let me drink poison,
Tell me to tear my heart in two,
If that's what you want me to do.
-
She was young, as was I,
Surely, she was much too young to die.
So I flung her crown high into the sky,
In a rage,
With a cry:
"Ariadne!... Ariadne!..."
And its jewels broke free
And they never came down,
But they stayed there as stars
In the shape of a crown.
And they're there every night
As a sign of our love,
And it fills me with joy
And it fills me with pain.
It reminds me of how much
I miss her and want her
And wish every day she were here.
There are no stars in hell.
Just as well.
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#32
Posted: 10/13/16 at 6:13pm
Go! Can't you go? Why is nobody listening?
Goodbye, go and cry at another person's wake!
If you're quick, for a kick, you can pick up a christening,
But please, on my knees, there's a human life at stake!
and of course,
If you're gonna bump it, bump it with a trumpet
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#33
Posted: 10/13/16 at 7:41pm
Take my soul if you must
Let my body turn to dust
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#34
Posted: 10/13/16 at 10:21pm
Lucy is juicy but terribly drab
Jessie is dressy but cold as a slab
Lucy wants to be Jessie
Jessie wants to be Lucy
That's the sorrowful precis
Its very messy
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#35
Posted: 10/13/16 at 10:55pm
The bread, George.
I mean the bread, George.
And then in bed, George...
I mean he kneads me-
I mean like dough, George...
Hello, George...
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#36
Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:17pm
She sits at the Ritz
With her splits of Mumms
And starts to pine for a stein with her Village chums
But with a schlitz in her mitts down at Fitzroy's Bar
She thinks of the Ritz-
Oh-it's so schizo
Famous Stephen Sondheim lyric#37
Posted: 10/19/16 at 9:12pm
Will your in-laws just spit!
After all of that baloney
They've made you go through,
All that muttering that you're a phoney,
'Cause what do you do?
Will their faces be stony
When they see on their Sony
Someone handing the phony
The Tony
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