Stephen Sondheim - Garden Sequence lyrics

[DOCTOR TAMBOURRI, spoken] Ah, look at how they've let this garden go [COLONEL RICCI, spoken] This is not Milan, Doctor [FOSCA, spoken] I think it's rather beautiful [RICCI, spoken] Captain Bachetti, would you lend my cousin your arm? I wish to have a word with the Doctor [GIORGIO, spoken] Of course [FOSCA, spoken] I know how to walk. My cousin treats me like a child [GIORGIO] All the while as we strolled, Clara- [FOSCA, spoken] I hope I didn't frighten you the other day [GIORGIO, spoken] No, not at all (sung) I could see you reading my letter All the while as we strolled - [FOSCA, spoken] I'm not afraid of d**h. I rather think I'd welcome dying. It's being shut up in a coffin, covered by the earth, that I dread [GIORGIO] All I saw, all I knew All that I could think of was you (Clara enters, reading a letter.) [CLARA] All that I could think of was you How ridiculous To be looking at her And be thinking of you How could anyone So unbeautiful Stir my memory of you? To feel a woman's touch To touch a woman's hand Reminded me how much I long to be with you How long I've been without you near And then to hear a woman's voice To hold a woman's arm To feel a woman's touch... [GIORGIO, spoken] These thoughts are bad for you. Surely if you are sick, you must realize that there is also the hope that you will get better [FOSCA, spoken] Hope in my case is in short supply Uld somehow make one happy [CLARA] Perhaps it was the dress The fragrance of her dress The light perfume of silk That's warm from being in the sun That mingles with a woman's own perfume The fragrance of a woman... [GIORGIO, spoken] There is no absolute happiness in anyone's life, Signora The only happiness we can be certain of is love [CLARA] The garden filled with you- [FOSCA, spoken] Are you speaking of friendships? [GIORGIO, spoken] I'm speaking of a superior love [CLARA] And all that I could do Because of you Was talk of love (Giorgio sings to Fosca as Clara continues to sing the letter) [CLARA & GIORGIO] Love that fills every waking moment Love that grows every single day Love that thinks everything is pure Everything is beautiful Everything is possible Love that fuses two into one Where we think the same thoughts [GIORGIO] Want the same things [CLARA & GIORGIO] Live as one [GIORGIO] Feel as one [CLARA & GIORGIO] Breathe as one [CLARA] Love that shuts away the world [GIORGIO] Love that shuts away the world [CLARA] That envelops my soul [GIORGIO] That envelops your soul [CLARA] That ennobles my life [GIORGIO] Your life [CLARA & GIORGIO] Love that floods Every living moment Love like [CLARA] -ours [FOSCA, spoken] Love like-? [GIORGIO] -like wine An intoxication A great blindness, if you will (Fosca stumbles slightly; Giorgio goes to aid her, but she pulls herself away) [FOSCA, spoken] You can be incredibly cruel, Captain [GIORGIO, spoken] Cruel? [FOSCA] To speak to me of love [GIORGIO, spoken] Oh, forgive me! I didn't mean to- [FOSCA] To dangle words like "Happiness" "Beautiful" "Superior" You can't be that naive You with all your books Your taste, your sensitivity I thought you'd understand The others - well, they're all alike Stupidity is their excuse As ugliness is mine But what is yours? I've watched you from my window I saw you on the day that you arrived Perhaps it was the way you walked The way you spoke to your men I saw that you were different then I saw that you were kind and good I thought you understood They hear drums You hear music As do I Don't you see? We're the same We are different You and I are different They hear only drums All the time I watched from my room I would think of coming downstairs Thinking we'd meet Thinking you'd look at me Thinking you'd be repelled by what you saw Don't reject me Don't deny me, Captain Understand me, be my friend They hear drums, we hear music Be my friend...