Getting Married Today

Song Getting Married Today
Artist Stephen Sondheim
Album Company [2006 Broadway Revival Cast]

Lyrics

[00:00.10] CHOIRGIRL:
[00:04.29] Bless this day,
[00:08.53] Pinnacle of life,
[00:11.65] Husband joined to wife.
[00:14.51] The heart leaps up to behold
[00:22.97] This golden day.
[00:32.66] PAUL:
[00:36.82] Today is for Amy,
[00:41.49] Amy, I give you the rest of my life,
[00:46.05] To cherish and to keep you, to honor you forever.
[00:53.54] Today is for Amy,
[00:56.85] My happily soon-to-be wife.
[01:05.92] AMY:
[01:07.03] Pardon me is everybody here?
[01:07.81] Because if everybody's here,
[01:08.95] I want to thank you all for coming to the wedding,
[01:09.77] I'd appreciate your going even more,
[01:10.70] I mean you must have lots of better things to do,
[01:11.92] and not a word of this to Paul,
[01:12.74] remember Paul, you know, the man I'm gonna marry,
[01:13.93] but I'm not, because I wouldn't ruin
[01:14.77] anyone as wonderful as he is--
[01:15.71] Thank you all
[01:16.38] For the gifts and the flowers,
[01:17.42] Thank you all,
[01:17.98] Now it's back to the showers,
[01:18.83] Don't tell Paul,
[01:19.38] But I'm not getting married today.
[01:22.26] CHOIRGIRL:
[01:23.41] Bless this day,
[01:27.76] Tragedy of life,
[01:30.96] Husband joined to wife.
[01:34.06] The heart sinks down and feels dead
[01:42.88] This dreadful day.
[02:00.74] AMY:
[02:02.43] Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for a wedding,
[02:04.14] what's a wedding, it's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever,
[02:06.90] which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of,
[02:08.27] which is followed by a honeymoon,
[02:08.89] where suddenly he'll realize he's saddled with a nut, and wanna kill me,
[02:10.84] which he should--
[02:11.26] Thanks a bunch,
[02:11.82] But I'm not getting married--
[02:12.46] Go have lunch,
[02:13.14] 'Cause I'm not getting married--
[02:13.90] You've been grand,
[02:14.65] But I'm not getting married--
[02:15.41] Don't just stand there,
[02:16.13] I'm not getting married--
[02:16.88] And don't tell Paul,
[02:17.59] But I'm not getting married today.
[02:19.87] Go, can't you go?
[02:21.13] Why is no-
[02:21.92] Body listening?
[02:22.81] Goodbye,
[02:23.43] Go and cry
[02:24.21] At another person's wake.
[02:25.75] If you're quick,
[02:26.54] For a kick,
[02:27.29] You could pick
[02:28.15] Up a christening,
[02:28.95] But please,
[02:29.70] On my knees,
[02:30.38] There's a human life at stake!
[02:32.28] Listen everybody, I'm afraid you didn't hear, or do you want to
[02:34.22] see a crazy lady fall apart in front of you, it isn't only Paul
[02:35.38] who may be ruining his life, you know we'll both of us be losing
[02:36.84] our identities, I telephoned my analyst about it and he said to
[02:38.96] see him Monday, but by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with
[02:40.83] the other garbage--
[02:41.37] I'm not well,
[02:41.76] So I'm not getting married--
[02:42.36] You've been swell,
[02:43.12] But I'm not getting married--
[02:43.90] Clear the hall,
[02:44.68] 'Cause I'm not getting married--
[02:45.42] Thank you all,
[02:46.16] But I'm not getting married--
[02:47.01] And don't tell Paul,
[02:47.67] But I'm not getting married today.
[02:50.81] CHOIRGIRL:
[02:51.86] Bless this bride,
[02:55.97] Totally insane,
[02:59.14] Slipping down the drain.
[03:02.36] And bless this day in our hearts
[03:11.08] As it starts
[03:14.96] To rain.
[03:21.24] PAUL:Today is for
[03:22.86] AMY:
[03:23.70] Go, can't you go? Amy,
[03:24.63] Look, you know Amy,
[03:25.39] I adore you all, I give you
[03:26.20] But why The rest of
[03:27.13] Watch me die My life,
[03:27.79] Like Eliza on the ice? To cherish
[03:29.23] Look, perhaps And to keep you,
[03:30.06] I'll collapse To honor you
[03:30.89] In the apse Forever,
[03:31.75] Right before you all, Today is for Amy,
[03:32.69] So take My happily
[03:33.70] Back the cake, Soon-to-be
[03:34.35] Burn the shoes and boil the rice. Wife,
[03:35.97] Look, I didn't wanna have to My adorable
[03:36.84] tell you, but I may be coming Wife.
[03:37.64] down with Hepatitis, and I
[03:38.16] think I'm gonna faint, so if
[03:38.86] you wanna see me faint, I'll
[03:39.53] do it happily, but wouldn't
[03:40.30] it be funnier to go and watch
[03:41.04] a funeral, so thank you for the
[03:41.87] twenty-seven dinner plates,
[03:42.81] thirty-seven butter knives,
[03:43.44] forty-seven paperweights,
[03:44.16] fifty-seven candleholders--
[03:45.04] PAUL: One more thing--
[03:45.54] AMY: I am not getting married!(CHOIR: Amen!)
[03:46.45] PAUL: Softly said--
[03:47.19] AMY: But I'm not getting married!(CHOIR: Amen!)
[03:47.97] PAUL: With this ring--
[03:48.79] AMY: Still I'm not getting married!(CHOIR: Amen!)
[03:49.48] PAUL: I thee wed.
[03:50.22] AMY: See, I'm not getting married!(CHOIR: Amen!)
[03:50.88] PAUL: AMY:
[03:51.03] Let us pray Let us pray
[03:52.04] That we are getting married That I'm not getting married
[03:52.59] Today! Today!(CHOIR: Amen!)
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