Stephen Sondheim - You Must Meet My Wife Lyrics
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| Stephen Sondheim
- You Must Meet My Wife Lyrics
Album: A Little Night Music [Fredrik] She lightens my sadness, She livens my days, She bursts with a kind of madness My well-ordered ways. My happiest mistake, the ache of my life: You must meet my wife. She bubbles with pleasure, She glows with surprise, Disrupts my accustomed leisure And ruffles my ties. I don't know even now quite how it began. You must meet my wife, my Anne. One thousand whims to which I give in, Since her smallest tear turns me ashen. I never dreamed that I could live in So completely demented, contented a fashion. So sunlike, so winning, So unlike a wife. I do think that I'm beginning To show signs of life. Don't ask me how at my age one still can grow-- If you met my wife, you'd know. [Desiree (speaking):] Dear Fredrik, I'm just longing to meet her. Sometime. [Fredrik] She sparkles... [Desiree] How pleasant. [Fredrik] She twinkles... [Desiree] How nice. [Fredrik] Her youth is a sort of present-- [Desiree] Whatever the price. [Fredrik] The incandescent--what?--the-- [Desiree (offering a cigarette):] Light? [Fredrik] --of my life. You must meet my wife. [Desiree] Yes, I must. I really must. Now-- [Fredrik] She flutters. [Desiree] How charming. [Fredrik] She twitters. [Desiree] My word! [Fredrik] She floats. [Desiree] Isn't that alarming? What is she, a bir
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