The Wedding Is Off Lyrics – Sondheim on Sondheim
The Wedding Is Off Lyrics
[JENNY]
Bless this day
Pinnacle of life
Husband joined to wife
The heart leaps up to behold
This golden day
[AMY]
The chapel is gleaming
The guests are inside
The parents are beaming
And look at the bride:
Beautiful gown, even at retail—
Lamp the veil, folks, notice the coif
And another fabulous detail:
The wedding is off!
[JENNY]
Bless this bride, totally insane
[AMY]
The choir is singing
The preacher's been paid
The bells go on ringing—
I hope it's a raid
Staggering gifts, dazzling flowers
Picturewise, the show is a boff—
Thanks a heap, now back to the showers
The wedding is off!
I know it's been rough, gang
To come all this way
Can't thank you enough, gang—
I wish I could stay
Look, if you enjoy public disaster
If you like to snicker and scoff
You can be sick forty times faster:
Go to a funeral, a funeral's groovy
Sit through an Antonioni movie
Dip into National Geographic
Watch a pedestrian killed in traffic
But, sorry, folks—
This wedding is off!
[JENNY]
Bless this day
Tragedy of life
Husband yoked to wife
The heart sinks down
And feels dead
This dreadful day
Bless this day
Pinnacle of life
Husband joined to wife
The heart leaps up to behold
This golden day
[AMY]
The chapel is gleaming
The guests are inside
The parents are beaming
And look at the bride:
Beautiful gown, even at retail—
Lamp the veil, folks, notice the coif
And another fabulous detail:
The wedding is off!
[JENNY]
Bless this bride, totally insane
[AMY]
The choir is singing
The preacher's been paid
The bells go on ringing—
I hope it's a raid
Staggering gifts, dazzling flowers
Picturewise, the show is a boff—
Thanks a heap, now back to the showers
The wedding is off!
I know it's been rough, gang
To come all this way
Can't thank you enough, gang—
I wish I could stay
Look, if you enjoy public disaster
If you like to snicker and scoff
You can be sick forty times faster:
Go to a funeral, a funeral's groovy
Sit through an Antonioni movie
Dip into National Geographic
Watch a pedestrian killed in traffic
But, sorry, folks—
This wedding is off!
[JENNY]
Bless this day
Tragedy of life
Husband yoked to wife
The heart sinks down
And feels dead
This dreadful day
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Sondheim on Sondheim Lyrics: Song List
- My Name Is Stephen Joshua Sondheim
- Invocation/Forget War
- Love Is in the Air
- Comedy Tonight
- Take Me to the World
- Ten Years After I Was Born...
- Talent/When I Get Famous
- Something’s Coming
- My First Professional Show...
- So Many People
- For Many Years, Hal Prince...
- You Could Drive a Person Crazy
- The Wedding Is Off
- Now You Know
- Hal Prince and I Did Six Shows Together...
- Franklin Shepard, Inc.
- Good Thing Going
- Sometimes a Song Changes Its Shape...
- Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
- The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened
- My First Serious Relationship...
- Happiness
- Fosca’s Entrance (I Read)
- Is This What You Call Love?
- Loving You
- God
- If You Ask Me to Write a Love Song...
- Losing My Mind / Not a Day Goes By
- A Lot of People Think...
- Opening Doors
- We Had Three Endings to Company...
- Multitudes of Amys
- Happily Ever After
- Being Alive
- Something Just Broke
- The Gun Song
- Jule Styne and I Realized with Gypsy...
- Smile, Girls
- I Suppose If There Is One That’s Closest...
- Finishing the Hat
- Beautiful
- I Had a Lot of Trouble with My Mother...
- Children Will Listen
- To Me, Teaching Is a Sacred Profession...
- Send in the Clowns
- I’ve Often Been Asked Why I Don’t Write...
- Company/Old Friends
- Anyone Can Whistle