Andrew Lloyd Webber - Why Does She Love Me lyrics

rate me

RAOUL

One more.

BARTENDER

Oh, buddy, don't you think you've had enough? It's practically morning

already.

RAOUL

One more, I said!

BARTENDER

All, right, all right. My shift is over anyway, so let's settle the bill,

ok? Jeez, you're in a bad way aren't you? Worse than most that end up here.

Here's the morning shift - maybe he'll know what to do with you.

RAOUL

Yes, what to do with me. That's the question, isn't it? That's always been

the question. Ever since the beginning...

She looks for sympathy

I give her sorrow

She asks for honesty

I've none to borrow

She needs my tender kiss

She begs it of me

I give her ugliness

Why does she love me?

She yearns for higher things

Things I can't give her

The rush that music brings

I can't deliver

And even when she sings

And soars above me

I try to clip her wings

Why does she love me?

One more drink, sir. That's what I need don't you think, sir? Leave the

hurt behind.

Do you hear me? Another drink!

She wants the man I was

Husband and father

At least she thinks does

She needn't bother

Beneath this mask I wear

There's nothing of me

Just horror, shame, despair

Why does she love me?

How 'bout you, sir? Tell me what am I to do, sir? Leave the hurt behind.

MEG

Morning, Bernie, coffee please! Hurry up before I freeze. I'll just take it

black. Mother said I'd find you here.

RAOUL

Miss Giry...

MEG

Do you know where you are?

RAOUL

Hell, I imagine

MEG

Around here they call it suicide hall. It's where people end up when they

don't know where else to go. The hopeless, the desperate. Good place to

step off the side of the pier and quietly vanish.

RAOUL

You seem to be a regular.

MEG

Me? I come here to swim

This town is coarse and cold and mean

It's hard to keep your conscience clean

Faceless in the crowd

Anything's allowed

And so I come at dawn each day

Come to wash it all away

Sink into the sea

Blue and cool and kind

Let it set me free

Let the past unwind

Leave the hurt behind

You should never have come to America. It's not a place for people like you

and Christine. It's too easy to forget who you are and where you belong.

That's why Mother says you must leave here. Now. Take your wife and the boy

and go.

RAOUL

Leave? What about tonight? The concert, the money? Am I to just run away

from him?

MEG

When the sun rises tomorrow we can all start again. Clean.

Sail across the sea

Put us out of mind

Close your eyes and flee

Let yourself stay blind

Leave this place behind...