Happiness Lyrics > Sondheim on Sondheim

[CLARA]
I'm so happy
I'm afraid I'll die
Here in your arms

What would you do
If I died
Like this—
Right now
Here in your arms?

That we ever should have met
Is a miracle—

[GIORGIO]
No, inevitable—

[CLARA]
Then inevitable, yes
But I confess
It was the look—

[GIORGIO]
The look?

[CLARA]
The sadness in your eyes
That day
When we glanced
At each other in the park

[GIORGIO]
We were both unhappy

[CLARA]
Unhappiness can be seductive

[GIORGIO]
You pitied me

[CLARA & GIORGIO]
How quickly pity leads to lov?

[CLARA]
All this happiness
Merely from a glanc? in the park
So much happiness
So much love

[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was

[CLARA]
I wish we might have met so much sooner
I could have given you—

[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was
[CLARA]
—My youth

[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew how much I could feel

[CLARA]
All the time we lost...

[GIORGIO]
I didn't know what love was

[CLARA]
I've never known what love was

[GIORGIO]
But now—

[CLARA]
And now—

[CLARA & GIORGIO]
— I do
It's what I feel with you
The happiness I feel with you
[CLARA]
So much happiness—

[GIORGIO]
You are so beautiful...

[CLARA]
—Happening by chance
In a park

[GIORGIO]
Not by chance
By necessity—

[CLARA]
Surely, this is happiness—

[GIORGIO]
By the sadness that we saw
In each other

[CLARA]
—No one else
Has ever felt before!

[CLARA & GIORGIO]
Just another love story
That's what they would claim
Another simple love story—
Aren't all of them the same?

[CLARA]
No, but this is more
We feel more!

[CLARA & GIORGIO]
This is so much more!
Like every other love story

Some say happiness
Comes and goes
Then this happiness
Is a kind of happiness
No one really knows

[GIORGIO]
I thought I knew what love was

[CLARA]
I'd only heard what love was

[GIORGIO]
I thought it was no more than a name
For yearning

[CLARA]
I thought it was what kindness became

[GIORGIO]
I'm learning—

[CLARA]
I thought where there was love there was shame

[GIORGIO]
—That with you—

[CLARA]
But with you—

[BOTH]
—There's just happiness

[CLARA]
Endless happiness...
Last Update: October, 24th 2023