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Is This What You Call Love?
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Stephen Sondheim
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Is this what you call love? This endless and insatiable Smothering Pursuit of me You think that this is love? I'm sorry that you're lonely I'm sorry that you want me as you do I'm sorry that I fail to feel The way you wish me to feel I'm sorry that you're ill I'm sorry you're in pain I'm sorry that you aren't beautiful But yes, I wish you'd go away And leave me alone! Everywhere I turn There you are This is not love But some kind of obsession Will you never learn When too far is too far? Have you no concern For what I feel What I want? Love is what you earn And return When you care for another So much that thе other's Set free Don't you see? Can't you understand? Lovе's not a constant demand It's a gift you bestow Love isn't sudden surrender It's tender and slow It must grow Yet everywhere I go You appear Or I know You are near This is not love Just a need for possession Call it what you will This is not love This is the reverse Like a curse Something out of control I've begun to fear For my soul... We had a very difficult time during previews with Pa**ion because the audience would not buy the idea that this good-looking guy would, would fall in love with this obsessive, grasping, difficult, unpleasant woman. So I wrote a song called "Loving You" which is very simple but which is very heartfelt. It's a very Oscar Hammerstein-like song. And by the end of that song, the audience was softened enough towards her and realized that her love was pure even though her behavior was not. And it sort of, um, turned the corner of the show.
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