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--
Other Songs: Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Songs Lyrics Something Just Broke lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Lyrics
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