Stephen Sondheim - Final Scene lyrics

Mrs. Lovett: Toby, where are you, love? (spoken) Where is he? Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Toby? Toby? Mrs. Lovett: Nothing's gonna harm you, darling Not while I'm around Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Toby? Anthony: (spoken) Mr Todd! (to Johanna) You wait for him here I'll return with the coach in less than half an hour Don't worry, no one will recognize you. You're safe now Johanna: (spoken) Safe? So we run away and then all our dreams come true? Anthony: (spoken) I hope so Johanna: (spoken) I've never had dreams-- only nightmares Anthony: (spoken) Johanna, when we're free of this place All the ghosts will go away Johanna: (spoken) No, Anthony, they never go away Anthony: (spoken) I'll be right back to you Half an hour and we'll be free! Beggar Woman: Beadle, Beadle! No good hiding, I saw you! Are you in there still, Beadle Beadle, Beadle, dear Beadle? Beadle deedle deedle Deedle deedle dumpling Beadle dumpling Ba deedle deedle deedle Deedle deedle deedle deedle Deedle deedle deedle deedle Deedle deedle-- Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Who are you? What are you doing here? Beggar Woman: (spoken) Evil is here, sir! The stink of evil from below--from her! She's the devil's wife! Beware of her sir! She, with no pity in her heart! (sung) Hey, don't I know you mister? Judge Turpin: (spoken) Mr. Todd? Where is she? Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Below, your honor, with my neighbor. Thank heavens the sailor did not molest her. Thank heavens too, she has seen the error of her ways Judge Turpin: (spoken) She has? Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Oh, yes. Your lesson was well learned. She speaks only of you, longing for forgiveness Judge Turpin: (spoken) Then she shall have it She'll be here soon, you say? Sweeney Todd: (spoken) Yes Judge Turpin: (spoken) Excellent, my friend! Sweeney Todd: (spoken) How 'bout a shave? Sit, sir. Sit! Judge Turpin: Oh, pretty women Sweeney Todd: Pretty women, yes! Judge Turpin: Johanna, Johanna Sweeney Todd: Pretty women, pretty women are a wonder Pretty women! Todd: Turpin: Pretty Women! What would we do For women Turpin&Todd: Blowing out their candles Or combing out their hair Judge Turpin: Then they leave Todd: Turpin: Even when they Even when they Leave leave you and Vanish they somehow can still They still Remain there with you Are there there They're there... Judge Turpin: (spoken) How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit Sweeney Todd: (spoken) With fellow tastes... in women at least Judge Turpin: (spoken, laughing) What's that? Sweeney Todd: (spoken) The years no doubt have changed me, sir; but then I suppose the face of a barber, the face of a prisoner, a dog, is not particularly memorable Judge Turpin: (spoken) Benjamin Barker! Sweeney Todd: (screaming) BENJAMIN BARKER! (sung) Rest now my friend Rest now forever Sleep now the untroubled Sleep of the angels (spoken) "Don't I know you," she said... You knew she lived Mrs. Lovett: (spoken) I was only thinking of you... Sweeney Todd: (spoken) You lied to me Mrs. Lovett: No, no, not lied at all-- No I never lied Todd: Mrs. Lovett: Lucy... said she took a Poison, she did I've never said that she Died! Poor thing Come she lived, but it Left her weak in the Home head-- all she did for Months was just lie Again. there in bed-- should Have been in hospital Lucy! wound up in bedlam instead Oh my Poor thing, better You should think she God! was dead, yes I lied 'cause I love you! Lucy... I'd be twice the Wife she was-- I What love you! Could that Thing have cared for Have I you like me? Done? Sweeney Todd: Mrs. Lovett You're a bloody wonder-- Eminently practical And yet appropriate as always As you've said repeatedly, there's Little point in dwelling on the past Todd: Mrs. Lovett: Now come here Do you mean it? My love! Everything I did I swear I thought Was only for the best! Not a thing to fear My love! Believe me! What's dead Can we still be Is dead! married? Sweeney Todd: The history of the world, my pet... Mrs. Lovett: Oh, Mr. Todd Oh, Mr. Todd Leave it to me! Sweeney Todd: ...is learn forgiveness And try to forget! Mrs. Lovett: By the sea, Mr. Todd We'll be comfy, cozy By the sea, Mr. Todd Where there's no one nosy Sweeney Todd: And life is for the alive, my dear So let's keep living it Todd & Lovett: Just keep living it Todd: & Lovett: (screams) (barely audible) REALLY LIVING IT! really living it! *Mrs. Lovett screams* Sweeney Todd: There was a barber and his wife And she was beautiful A foolish barber and his wife She was his reason and his life And she was beautiful And she was virtuous And he was--