Why Does She Love Me?

Raoul:

(Spoken)

One more

Bar tender:

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

Raoul:

One more, I said!

Bar tender:

Alright, alright. My shift is over, anyway, so let's settle the bill, okay Jeeze, you're in a bad way, ain't ya? 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

Raoul:

(Singing)

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

(Spoken)

Did you hear me? Another drink!

(Singing)

She wants the man I was

Husband and father

At least she thinks she 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

(Spoken)

Mother said id 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. At's where people end up when they don't know where else to go. the hopeless, the desperate a 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

(Singing)

This town is course and cold and mean

It's hard to keep your conscious 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

(Spoken)

You should never have come to America. It's not the 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! Ahat 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

(Singing)

Sail across the sea

Put us out of mind

Close your eyes and flee

Let yourself stay blind

Leave this place behind