Stephen Sondheim - Something Just Broke Lyrics

2010 Broadway
Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical - Something Just Broke Lyrics


WOMAN 1
I was out
In the yard,
Taking down the bed sheets,
When my neighbor yelled across:

PROPRIETOR
"The president's been shot."

WOMAN 1
I remember where I was,
Just exactly where I was,
In the yard out back--

PROPRIETOR
"The president's been shot."

MAN 1
I was getting me a shoeshine--

WOMAN 1
--Folding sheets--

MAN 1
--When I heard--

WOMAN 2
We were waiting for a carriage--

MAN 1
--Newsboys--

WOMAN 2
Suddenly there's shouting in the street--

WOMAN 1
--Lizzie's sheets...

THE PROPRIETOR
"The president's been shot."

WOMAN 2
I'll remember it forever--

WOMAN 1
And I thought:

WOMAN 2 and MAN 1
--Where I was, what I was doing--

WOMAN 1
Something just broke...

PROPRIETOR
"The president's been shot."

MAN 1
My God--!

MAN 2
I was up near the ridge,
Plowing--

MAN 3
We were working at the plant--

WOMAN 2
I was halfway throguh correcting the exams--

MAN 2
--When my wife

MAN 3
It was Mike--

MAN 2
She comes tearing 'cross the field--

MAN 3
--Mike the forman--

WOMAN 2
In runs billy--

MAN 3
I mean, he was crying--

WOMAN 2
He was crying--

MAN 2
She was crying--

WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3
I'll remember it forever...

WOMAN 1
And I thought:

PROPRIETOR
"The president's been shot."

WOMAN 1
You know what?
There are presidents who aren't worth a lot.

WOMAN 2, MAN 2, MAN 3
I kept thinking:

WOMAN 1
There's the kind that gets elected, then forgot.

MAN 1 and WOMAN 1
Mr. Garfield--

WOMAN 2
Mr. Lincoln

MAN 1 and WOMAN 1
--He's a hack.

MAN 3 and WOMAN 1
Bill McKinley--

WOMAN 2
--He's a giant.

MAN 1, MAN 3, WOMAN 1
--He's a joke.

WOMAN 1
Still, something just broke...

PROPRIETOR
"The president is rallying."
"The president is sinking."
"The president is dead."

WOMAN 1
Something just broke.

MAN 2
I was down at the Exchange...

WOMAN 1
Something just made a little dent.

WOMAN 2
I'd been shopping...

MAN 1
I'd been sick...

WOMAN 1
Something just broke--

MAN 3
All I know, it was a Friday...

WOMAN 1
Only for a moment.

MAN1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY
I remember it exactly...

WOMAN 1
Something got bent.

WOMAN 2
I'm taking the order...

WOMAN 1
Something jsut left a little mark.

BOY
I was getting dressed...

WOMAN 2
...two potato soups...

WOMAN 1
Something just went a little dark.
Something just went.

MAN 2
And I wondered:

WOMAN 2
I was scared--

MAN 2 and WOMAN 2
What would follow...

WOMAN 1
Something to be mended.

MAN 1
Made me wonder who we are...

WOMAN 1
Something we'll have to weather--

MAN 2
It was seeing all those torches...

WOMAN 1
Bringing us all together--

MAN 2
He was me...

MAN 3
He was us...

WOMAN 1
--If only for a moment...

ALL
I'll remember it forever...

WOMAN 1
Nothing has really ended--

MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY
Where I was, what I was doing...

WOMAN 1
Only just be suspended...

MAN 1, MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY
Like a flash...

WOMAN 1
'Cause something just stirred...

VARIOUS
And I thought
And I thought to myself
And I thought
And I thought
I kept thinking

WOMAN 1
Something just woke.

ALL
Something just spoke,
Something I wish I hadn't heard,
Something bewildering occurred.

BOY and MAN 2
Fix it up fast,
Please--

MAN 2 and MAN 3
Till it's just smoke.

WOMAN 1 and WOMAN 2
Till it's only "Something just passed"--
--Nothing that will last.

WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 1
Where I was, what i was doing...

MAN 2, MAN 3, BOY
Nothing but the moment...

WOMAN 2
Just an awful moment...

WOMAN 1
But something just--


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Something Just Broke lyrics by Stephen Sondheim


Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Lyrics

Love Is in the Air
Comedy Tonight
Take Me to the World
Talent/ When I Get Famous
Something's Coming
So Many People
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Now You Know
Franklin Shepard Inc.
Good Thing Going
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
The Best Thing That Ever Happened
Happiness
Fosca's Entrance (I Read)
Is This What You Call Love?
Loving You
God
Losing My Mind / Not a Day Goes By
Opening Doors
Multitudes of Amys
Happily Ever After
Being Alive
Something Just Broke
The Gun Song
Smile, Girls
Finishing the Hat
Beautiful
Children Will Listen
Send in the Clowns
Company/ Old Friends
Anyone Can Whistle