The Sun Won't Set [Act Two]

The sun sits low
Diffusing its usual glow
Five o'clock
Twilight
Vespers sound
And it's six o'clock
Twilight
All around

But the sun sits low
As low as it's going to go

Eight o'clock

Twilight

How enthralling

It's nine o'clock

Twilight

Slowly crawling towards

Ten o'clock

Twilight

Crickets calling
The vespers ring
The nightingale's waiting to sing
The rest of us wait on a string

Perpetual sunset
Is rather an unsettling thing

To lose a lover
Or even a husband or two
During the course of one's life
Can be vexing
But to lose one's teeth is a catastrophe
Bear that in mind, child
As you chomp so recklessly into that ginger snap

Very well. grandmother

More champagne, Frid
One bottle the less of the Mumms '87 will not
I hope
Diminish the hilarity at my wake

The sun won't set
It's fruitless to hope or to fret
It's dark as it's going to get
The hands on the clock turn
But don't sing a nocturne just yet

They're coming!

Nonsense

But they are!

Impossible
No guest with the slightest grasp of what is seemly
Would arrive before 5:15 on a Friday afternoon
Good God, you're right!
Frid!
We cannot be caught squating on the ground
Like bohemians



Credits
Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim
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