A Little Night Music movie - You Must Meet My Wife lyrics
rate me<br>
[FREDRIK]<br>
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She lightens my sadness, <br>
She livens my days, <br>
She bursts with a kind of madness <br>
My well-ordered ways. <br>
My happiest mistake, the ache of my life: <br>
You must meet my wife. <br>
She bubbles with pleasure, <br>
She glows with surprise, <br>
Disrupts my accustomed leisure <br>
And ruffles my ties. <br>
I don't know even now quite how it began. <br>
You must meet my wife, my Anne. <br>
One thousand whims to which I give in, <br>
Since her smallest tear turns me ashen. <br>
I never dreamed that I could live in <br>
So completely demented, contented a fashion. <br>
So sunlike, so winning, <br>
So unlike a wife. <br>
I do think that I'm beginning <br>
To show signs of life. <br>
Don't ask me how at my age one still can grow-- <br>
If you met my wife, you'd know. <br>
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[DESIREE (speaking):]<br>
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Dear Fredrik, <br>
I'm just longing to meet her. <br>
Sometime. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She sparkles... <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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How pleasant. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She twinkles... <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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How nice. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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Her youth is a sort of present-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Whatever the price. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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The incandescent--what?--the-- <br>
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[DESIREE (offering a cigarette):]<br>
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Light? <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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--of my life. <br>
You must meet my wife. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Yes, I must. I really must. <br>
Now-- <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She flutters. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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How charming. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She twitters. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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My word! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She floats. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Isn't that alarming? <br>
What is she, a bird? <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She makes me feel I'm--what?-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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A very old man. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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Yes--no! <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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No? <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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But-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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I must meet your Gertrude. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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My Anne. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Sorry--Anne. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She loves my voice, my walk, my mustache, <br>
The cigar, in fact, that I'm smoking. <br>
She'll watch me puff until it's just ash, <br>
Then she'll save the cigar butt. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Bizarre, but <br>
You're joking. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She dotes on-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Your dimple. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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My snoring. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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How dear. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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The point is, she's really simple. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Yes, that much seems clear. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She gives me funny names-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Like? <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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"Old Dry-as-Dust." <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Wouldn't she just? <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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You must meet my wife. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Yes, I must, yes, I must. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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A sea of whims that I submerge in, <br>
Yet so loveable in repentance. <br>
Unfortunately still a virgin, <br>
But you can't force a flower-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Don't finish that sentence! <br>
She's monstrous! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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She's frightened. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Unfeeling! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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Unversed. <br>
She'd strike you as unenlightened-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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No, I'd strike her first. <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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Her reticence, her apprehension-- <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Her crust! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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No! <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Yes! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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No! <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Fredrik! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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You must meet my wife. <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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Let me get my hat and my knife! <br>
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[FREDRIK]<br>
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What was that? <br>
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[DESIREE]<br>
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I must meet your wife. <br>
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[FREDRIK AND DESIREE]<br>
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Yes, you must. <br>
Yes, I must.<br>
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