Evening Primrose: If You Can Find Me I'm Here - Stephen Sondheim

Is it done?

Are they gone?

Am I alone?

I am alone, it’s done, they’re gone

I am a genius, Charles, you are an unadulterated genius

You are an indisputable extraordinary, what was that?

Not a thing, you’re a fool, you are alone

And it begins

Careful, Careful

Mustn’t get excited, mustn’t overdo it

Softly, tip toe

You’ll get used to it in no time

Look at it!

Beautiful!

What a place to live, what a place to write!

I shall be inspired

I shall turn out elegis and sonnets

Verses by th ton

At last i have a home and nobody will know

No one in the world

Nobody will know I’m here!

I am free!

I am free!

Goodbye my friends and good riddance

Pardon while I disappear

Come see me soon in my hideaway

If you can find me I’m here

Farewell you blood sucking landlords

Pouring your threats in my ear

Good luck forever to you and yours

If you can find me, I’m here

And I’ll stay

Cozily hiding by day

During the day I’ll resign

Waiting till you go away

But at nine

Masters of all I survey

Everything gets to be mine to own

Mine to use

Mine to write all the poems I choose

All alone, only me and my muse

And forty pianos and ten thousand shoes

Farewell Neanderthal neighbors

Swilling your pretzels and beer

Fair weather friends will you miss me now?

If you can find me I’m here

Goodbye despoilers of beauty

Ruin another career

When you wake up with one genius less

If you can find me I’m here

And I’m free

Free as a bird in a tree

Free as the slippers I wear

Free with a years warantee

Free as air

All of these products and me

All that I ask is a chair that tilts

Books to read

Light refreshment before I proceed

And a blazer or maybe a tweed

The barest essentials a poet would need

Live in your barbarous jungle

Screaming for ways to get clear

When all the screaming has died away

Come and visit my hide away

I will be glad to provide a way

If you can find me

I’m here

I am here

I am here

I am here

I am here