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Epiphany

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Epiphany

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Todd:(shouting) Out I say out!!

Lovett:(spoken) All this running and shouting about what's happened?

Todd:(spoken)I had him then

Mrs.Lovett:(spoken) I know the Sailor busted in i saw them both runnin down the street and i said to myself...

Todd: No I had him! His throat was there beneath my hand. I had swear I had him!

His throat was there and now he'll never come again.

Mrs. Lovett: Easy now, hush love hush

I keep telling you -

Todd: When?

Mrs.Lovett:What's your rush?

Todd:Why do I wait?

You told me to wait -

Now he'll never come again.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

And it's filled with people who are filled with shit

And the vermin of the world inhabit it.

But not for long...

They all deserve to die.

Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.

Because in all of the whole human race

Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two

There's the one they put in his proper place

And the one with his foot in the other one's face

Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you.

Now we all deserve to die

Even you Mrs. Lovett...even I

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief

For the rest of us death will be a relief

We all deserve to die.

And I'll never see Johanna

No I'll never hold my girl to me - finished!

(shouted) Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?

Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.

You sir, you sir? Welcome to the grave.

I will have vengeance.

I will have salvation.

(shouted) Who sir, you sir?

No one in the chair, come on! Come on!

Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders.

You sir - anybody.

Gentlemen don't be shy!

Not one man, no, no ten men.

Not a hundred can assuage me -

I will have you!

And I will get him back even as he gloats

In the meantime I'll practice on dishonorable throats.

And my Lucy lies in ashes

And I'll never see my girl again.

But the work waits!

I'm alive at last!

And I'm full of joy!

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