作词 : Stephen Sondheim
作曲 : Stephen Sondheim
[MARY]
Hey, old friend
What do you say, old friend?
Make it okay, old friend
Give the old friendship a break.
Why so grim?
We’re going on forever.
You, me, him
Too many lives are at stake.
Friends this long
Has to mean something’s strong
So if our old friend’s wrong
Shouldn’t an old friend come through?
It’s us, old friend
What’s to discuss, old friend?
Here’s to us.
Who’s like us?
[CHARLEY]
Damn few.
[MARY]
Charley
Why can’t it be like it was?
I liked it the way that it was.
Charley, you and me, we were nicer then.
We were nice
Kids and cities and trees were nice, everything…
I don’t know who we are anymore.
And I’m starting not to care.
Look at us, Charley
Nothing’s the way that it was.
I want it the way that it was.
Help me stop remembering then.
Don’t you remember?
It was good, it was really good.
Help me out, Charley
Make it like it was.
Come on.
We both know it, it was better, Charley.
The three of us.
[CHARLEY]
And you come on.
we’re not the three of us any more, Mary.
Now we’re one and one and one.
[MARY]
Charley
Nothing’s the way that it was.
I want it the way that it was.
God knows, things were easier then.
Trouble is, Charley
That’s what everyone does:
Blames the way it is
On the way it was
On the way it never ever was...