Stephen Sondheim
Final Scene
Mrs. Lovett:
Toby, where are you, love?

(spoken)
Where is he?

Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Toby? Toby?

Mrs. Lovett:
Nothing's gonna harm you, darling
Not while I'm around

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Toby?

Anthony:
(spoken)
Mr Todd!

(to Johanna)
You wait for him here
I'll return with the coach in less than half an hour
Don't worry, no one will recognize you. You're safe now

Johanna:
(spoken)
Safe? So we run away and then all our dreams come true?

Anthony:
(spoken)
I hope so

Johanna:
(spoken)
I've never had dreams-- only nightmares
Anthony:
(spoken)
Johanna, when we're free of this place
All the ghosts will go away

Johanna:
(spoken)
No, Anthony, they never go away

Anthony:
(spoken)
I'll be right back to you
Half an hour and we'll be free!

Beggar Woman:
Beadle, Beadle!
No good hiding, I saw you!
Are you in there still, Beadle
Beadle, Beadle, dear Beadle?

Beadle deedle deedle
Deedle deedle dumpling
Beadle dumpling
Ba deedle deedle deedle
Deedle deedle deedle deedle
Deedle deedle deedle deedle
Deedle deedle--
Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Who are you? What are you doing here?

Beggar Woman:
(spoken)
Evil is here, sir! The stink of evil from below--from her! She's the devil's wife! Beware of her sir! She, with no pity in her heart!
(sung)
Hey, don't I know you mister?

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
Mr. Todd?

Where is she?

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Below, your honor, with my neighbor. Thank heavens the sailor did not molest her. Thank heavens too, she has seen the error of her ways

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
She has?

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Oh, yes. Your lesson was well learned. She speaks only of you, longing for forgiveness

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
Then she shall have it
She'll be here soon, you say?

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
Yes

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
Excellent, my friend!

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
How 'bout a shave?
Sit, sir. Sit!

Judge Turpin:
Oh, pretty women

Sweeney Todd:
Pretty women, yes!

Judge Turpin:
Johanna, Johanna

Sweeney Todd:
Pretty women, pretty women are a wonder
Pretty women!

Todd: Turpin:
Pretty Women! What would we do
For women

Turpin&Todd:
Blowing out their candles
Or combing out their hair

Judge Turpin:
Then they leave

Todd: Turpin:
Even when they Even when they

Leave leave you and

Vanish they somehow can still
They still
Remain there with you

Are there there
They're there...

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
With fellow tastes... in women at least

Judge Turpin:
(spoken, laughing)
What's that?

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
The years no doubt have changed me, sir; but then I suppose the face of a barber, the face of a prisoner, a dog, is not particularly memorable

Judge Turpin:
(spoken)
Benjamin Barker!

Sweeney Todd:
(screaming)
BENJAMIN BARKER!

(sung)
Rest now my friend
Rest now forever
Sleep now the untroubled
Sleep of the angels

(spoken)
"Don't I know you," she said...

You knew she lived

Mrs. Lovett:
(spoken)
I was only thinking of you...

Sweeney Todd:
(spoken)
You lied to me

Mrs. Lovett:
No, no, not lied at all--
No I never lied

Todd: Mrs. Lovett:
Lucy... said she took a
Poison, she did
I've never said that she
Died! Poor thing
Come she lived, but it
Left her weak in the
Home head-- all she did for
Months was just lie
Again. there in bed-- should
Have been in hospital
Lucy! wound up in bedlam instead
Oh my Poor thing, better
You should think she
God! was dead, yes I lied
'cause I love you!
Lucy... I'd be twice the
Wife she was-- I
What love you! Could that
Thing have cared for
Have I you like me?
Done?

Sweeney Todd:
Mrs. Lovett
You're a bloody wonder--
Eminently practical
And yet appropriate as always
As you've said repeatedly, there's
Little point in dwelling on the past

Todd: Mrs. Lovett:
Now come here Do you mean it?
My love!
Everything I did
I swear I thought
Was only for the best!
Not a thing to fear
My love!
Believe me!

What's dead Can we still be
Is dead! married?

Sweeney Todd:
The history of the world, my pet...

Mrs. Lovett:
Oh, Mr. Todd
Oh, Mr. Todd
Leave it to me!

Sweeney Todd:
...is learn forgiveness
And try to forget!

Mrs. Lovett:
By the sea, Mr. Todd
We'll be comfy, cozy
By the sea, Mr. Todd
Where there's no one nosy

Sweeney Todd:
And life is for the alive, my dear
So let's keep living it

Todd & Lovett:
Just keep living it

Todd: & Lovett:
(screams) (barely audible)
REALLY LIVING IT! really living it!

*Mrs. Lovett screams*

Sweeney Todd:
There was a barber and his wife
And she was beautiful
A foolish barber and his wife
She was his reason and his life
And she was beautiful
And she was virtuous
And he was--