LOVETT Seems an awful waste... Such a nice, plump frame Wot's 'is name has... Had... Has Nor it can't be traced... Bus'ness needs a lift, Debts to be erased... Think of it as thrift, As a gift, If you get my drift
Seems an awful waste... I mean, with the price of meat What it is, When you get it, If you get it...
TODD AH!
LOVETT Good, you got it!
Take, for instance, Mrs. Mooney and her pie shop! Bus'ness never better using only pussycats and toast! Now a pussy's good for maybe six or seven at the most! And I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste!
[Simultaneously]
TODD Mrs. Lovett, what a charming notion
LOVETT Well, it does seem a waste...
TODD Eminently practical And yet appropriate as always!
LOVETT (wrong) It's an idea... Think about it... (right)
TODD Mrs. Lovett, how I've lived Without you all these years, I'll never know! How delectable! Also undetectable!
LOVETT Lots of other gentlemen'll Soon be comin' for a shave, Won't they? Think of All them Pies!
TODD How choice! How Rare! For what's the sound of the world out there?
LOVETT What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?
TODD Those crunching noises pervading the air!
LOVETT Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, all around!
TODD It's man devouring man, my dear!
BOTH: And/Then who are we to deny it in here?
TODD (spoken) These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures are called for!
LOVETT Here we are, now! Hot out of the oven!
TODD What is that?
LOVETT: It's priest. Have a little priest.
TODD Is it really good?
LOVETT Sir, it's too good, at least! Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, So it's pretty fresh.
TODD Awful lot of fat.
LOVETT Only where it sat.
TODD Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
LOVETT No, y'see, the trouble with poet is 'Ow do you know it's deceased? Try the priest!
Lawyer's rather nice.
TODD If it's for a price.
LOVETT Order something else, though, to follow, Since no one should swallow it twice!
TODD Anything that's lean?
LOVETT Well, then, if you're British and loyal, You might enjoy Royal Marine! Anyway, it's clean. Though of course, it tastes of wherever it's been!
TODD Is that squire,
LOVETT Mercy no, sir, look closer, You'll notice it's grocer!
TODD Looks thicker, More like vicar!
LOVETT No, it has to be grocer -- It's green!
TODD The history of the world, my love --
LOVETT Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors!
TODD Is those below serving those up above!
LOVETT Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors!
TODD How gratifying for once to know
BOTH That those above will serve those down below!
TODD What is that?
LOVETT It's fop. Finest in the shop. And we have some shepherd's pie peppered With actual shepherd on top! And I've just begun -- Here's the politician, so oily It's served with a doily, Have one!
TODD Put it on a bun. Well, you never know if it's going to run!
LOVETT Try the friar, Fried, it's drier!
TODD No, the clergy is really Too coarse and too mealy!