Mrs. Lovett: Toby! Where are you, love?
-[whisper]- “Where is he?”
Nothing’s gonna harm you-- Not while I’m around
Sweeney Todd: “Toby?” … “Toby?”
Mrs. Lovett: Nothing’s gonna harm you, darlin’ Not while I’m around
Sweeney Todd: “Toby?”…
[Instrumental]
Anthony Hope: “Mr. Todd! You wait for him here. I’ll return with the coach in less than half an hour. Don’t worry, no one will recognize you. You’re safe now.”
Johanna: “Safe? So we run away and then all our dreams come true?”
Anthony Hope: “I hope so.” Johanna: “I’ve never had dreams. Only nightmares.”
Anthony Hope: “Johanna, when we’re free of this place, all the ghosts will go away.”
Johanna: “No, Anthony. They never go away.”
Anthony Hope: “I’ll be right back to you. Half an hour and we’ll be free.”
[Instrumental]
Beggar Woman: Beadle!… Beadle!… No good hidin’, I saw you! Are you in there still? Beadle!… Beadle!… Beadle, dear, Beadle…
[Brief Instrumental]
Beggar Woman: Beadle-deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle-dumpling Beadle, dumpling, Be-deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle- deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle…!
Sweeney Todd: “Who are you? What are you doing in here!?”
Beggar Woman: “Evil this is, sir. The stink of evil--from below--from her! She’s the devil’s wife! Beware her, sir. She with no pity in her heart.”
Hey-- don’t I know you, mister?
Judge Turpin: “Mr. Todd?”
[Dramatic Instrumental]
Judge Turpin: “Where is she?”
Sweeney Todd: “Below, your honor. With my neighbour. Thank heavens the sailor did not molest her. Thank heavens too, she has seen the error of her ways.”
Judge Turpin: “She has?”
Sweeney Todd: “Oh yes, your lesson was well learned. She speaks only of you, longing for forgiveness”
Judge Turpin: “Then she shall have it. She’ll be here soon, you say?”
Sweeney Todd: “Yes.”
Judge Turpin: “Excellent, my friend.”
Sweeney Todd: “How ‘bout a shave? Sit, sir, sit.”
Judge Turpin: Ah… pretty women
Sweeney Todd: Pretty women, yes
Judge Turpin: Johanna, Johanna…
Sweeney Todd: Pretty women Pretty women are a wonder Pretty women
Judge Turpin: What we do for women!
Sweeney Todd: Pretty women Blowing out their…
Judge Turpin: Blowing out their
BOTH: Candles
Sweeney Todd: Or-- combing out their…
Judge Turpin: Combing out their
BOTH: Hair
Judge Turpin: Then they leave
Sweeney Todd: Even when they leave…
[Simultaneously:]
Judge Turpin: Even when they leave you and vanish They somehow can still remain There with you There
Sweeney Todd: They still Are there They’re there
Judge Turpin: “How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit!”
Sweeney Todd: “With fellow tastes-- in women, at least.”
Judge Turpin: “What’s that?”
Sweeney Todd: “The years no doubt have changed me, sir. But then, I suppose, the face of a barber-- the face of a prisoner in the dock-- is not particularly memorable.”
Judge Turpin: “Benjamin Barker!”
Sweeney Todd: “BENJAMIN BARKER!!!”
[Dramatic Instrumental]
Sweeney Todd: Rest now, my friend Rest now - forever Sleep now the untroubled Sleep of the angels… [Instrumental]
Sweeney Todd: “'Don’t I know you?' she said. …You knew she lived.”
Mrs. Lovett: “I was only thinkin’ of you!”
Sweeney Todd: “You lied to me.”
Mrs. Lovett: No, no, not lied at all No, I never lied!
Sweeney Todd: Lucy…
Mrs. Lovett: Said she took the poison-- she did Never said that she died Sweeney Todd: I’ve come home again...
Mrs. Lovett: Poor thing! She lived but it left her weak in the head All she did for months was just lie there in bed--
Sweeney Todd: Lucy…
Mrs. Lovett: Should’ve been in a hospital Wound up in Bedlam instead Poor thing!
Sweeney Todd: Oh, my God…
Mrs. Lovett: Better you should think she was dead Yes, I lied ‘cos I love you!
Sweeney Todd: Lucy…
Mrs. Lovett: I’d be twice the wife she was! I love you!
Sweeney Todd: What have I done!?…
Mrs. Lovett: Could that thing have cared for you like me?
Sweeney Todd: Mrs. Lovett You’re a bloody wonder Eminently practical and yet Appropriate as always As you’ve said repeatedly There’s little point in dwelling on the past! [Simultaneously:]
Sweeney Todd: Now come here, my love… Not a thing to fear, my love… What’s dead, is dead!
Mrs. Lovett: Do you mean it? Everything I did I swear I thought was only for the best Believe me! Can we Still be Married?
Sweeney Todd: The history of the world, my pet--
Mrs. Lovett: Oh, Mr. Todd Oh, Mr. Todd Leave it to me...
Sweeney Todd: Is learn forgiveness and try to forget
Mrs. Lovett: By the sea, Mr. Todd, we’ll be comfy-cosy By the sea, Mr. Todd, where there’s no one nosy
Sweeney Todd: And life is for the alive, my dear So let’s keep living it--!
BOTH: Just keep living it! Really living it--
Mrs. Lovett: AARRGHHHH!! AARRGHHHHHHH!! AARRGHHHHHHHHH!!
[Dramatic Instrumental]
Sweeney Todd: There was a barber and his wife And she was beautiful A foolish barber and his wife She was his reason and his life And she was beautiful And she was virtuous And he was--
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