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Sondheim Lyrics

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 3h

Good things get better, bad get worse. Wait, I think I meant that in reverse.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody force me to care.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 2d

Are we or are we unique?

Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 3d

My darling, we’ll simply say no.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 4d

Once you see, you can't stay blind.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 5d

Where are we to go? Where are we ever to go?

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 6d

Loving you is why I do the things I do.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 7d

Isn't she beautiful? There she is— there she is, there she is, there she is. Mama is everywhere, he must have loved her so much . . .

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 8d

Silver’s good enough for me.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 9d

I’d be in the Follies! I’d be in a cabaret!

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 9d

Danced in my scanties, three bucks a night was the pay, but I'm here.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 11d

We just want to be loved!

Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 12d

The harder to get, the better to have.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 13d

‘Tis your delight, sir, catching fire from one man to the next!

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 14d

Bumbum bum bumbumbum bumbum bum . . .

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 15d

With so many of them fleeing, conferring, decreeing, I find myself agreeing with the ancient haiku.

Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 16d

Isn't it awful? God, how depressing— Me, I'm a hundred. You, you're a blessing—

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 17d

I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm.
Indifferent to tensions and shocks.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 18d

Get yourself a gimmick and you, too can be a star!

Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 19d

And I thought it was the end of the world.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 20d

How we kissed and how we clung—remember, darling? We were foolish, we were young—more than we knew.

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 21d

It's the other national anthem, saying, if you want to hear—it says "Bullshit!"

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 23d

Could I wave the years away with a quick goodbye? How do you wipe tears away when your eyes are dry?

Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 25d

All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word . . .

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Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyric.bsky.social · 26d

Oh well, you can blame another witch.

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