Act Two Opening - Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along Orchestra, Michael Rafter

GUSSIE

He’s only a boy

Why do I think he loves me?

Maybe he loves what I can do for him

Maybe he thinks that I’ll come through for him

Maybe the moon is cheese!

And yet maybe

Maybe

Something real is happening here

But baby

You’re a baby

And the man I’m married to needs me near

Okay!

The moon is cheese!

And I love the guy I shouldn’t

And I don’t, the one I should

Ah but love is blind

And I go for the kind

That I finally find is no good

It started out like a song

It started quiet and slow with no surprise

And then one morning I woke to realise

We had a good thing going!

It’s not that nothing went wrong…