Favorite Stephen Sondheim lyrics- Page 2

[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.

[Alex Kulak2]

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.

[EvanstonDad]

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.

[TNick926]

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...

 

Updated On: 10/12/16 at 04:28 PM

[GavestonPS]

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.

[Alex Kulak2]

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.

[Nettik]

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.

[adam.peterson44]

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

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 7:41pm

Take my soul if you must

Let my body turn to dust

[Jarethan]

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

 

 

[TotallyEffed]

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...

 

[Mrs Mangel]

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

[sondmon]

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
Award!