Stephen Sondheim
Loving You
[FOSCA]
Loving you
Is not a choice
It's who I am
Loving you
Is not a choice
And not much reason
To rejoice
But it gives me purpose
Gives me voice
To say to the world:
This is why I live
You are why I live
[GIORGIO]
Loving you
Is why I do
The things I do
Loving you
Is not in my
Control
Loving you
I have a goal
A reason for my life
[FOSCA]
Everywhere I turn
You are there
Everywhere I look
Things are different
Everything seems right
Everything seems possible
Every moment bursts with feeling
[GIORGIO]
Why is love so easy to give
And so hard to receive?
[FOSCA]
But though I want to livе
I now can leave
With what I nevеr knew:
[GIORGIO]
I'm someone to be loved
And that I learned from you
[FOSCA & GIORGIO]
You
[FOSCA]
Now at last
I see what comes
From feeling loved
Strange, how merely
Feeling loved
You see things clearly
Things I feared
Like the world itself
I now love dearly
I want to live
Now I want to live
Just from being loved
[GIORGIO]
All that pain
I nursed inside
For all those years...
All that vain
And bitter self-concern...
All those fears
And all that pride
Have vanished into air...
I don't want to leave
[FOSCA]
I don't want to leave
[GIORGIO]
Now that I am loved
[FOSCA]
Now that I am loved
[GIORGIO]
I don't want to leave
[FOSCA]
I will live
And I would die
For you
[GIORGIO]
I would live
[FOSCA & GIORGIO]
And I would die
For you
For you