Stephen Sondheim - Is This What You Call Love? Lyrics

2010 Broadway
Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical - Is This What You Call Love? Lyrics


Is this what you call love?
This endless and insatiable
Smothering pursuit of me.
You think that this is love?

I'm sorry that you're lonely,
I'm sorry that you want me as you do.
I'm sorry that I fail to feel
The way you want me to feel.

I'm sorry that you're ill,
I'm sorry you're in pain.
I'm sorry that you aren't beautiful.

But yes, I wish you'd go away
And leave me alone!

Everywhere I turn, there you are
This is not love
Just some kind of obsession.

Will you never learn when too far is too far,
Have you no concern
For what I want, what I feel?

Love is what you earn and return
When you care for another
So much that the other's set free.
Don't you see?
Can't you understand?

Love's not a constant demand,
It's a gift you bestow
Love isn't sudden surrender
It's tender and slow, it must grow.

Yet everywhere I go,
You appear or I know you are near
This is now love just a need for possession.

Call it what you will
This is not love, this is a reverse
Like a curse, something out of control
I've begun to fear
For my soul...


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Is This What You Call Love? lyrics by Stephen Sondheim


Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Lyrics

Love Is in the Air
Comedy Tonight
Take Me to the World
Talent/ When I Get Famous
Something's Coming
So Many People
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Now You Know
Franklin Shepard Inc.
Good Thing Going
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
The Best Thing That Ever Happened
Happiness
Fosca's Entrance (I Read)
Is This What You Call Love?
Loving You
God
Losing My Mind / Not a Day Goes By
Opening Doors
Multitudes of Amys
Happily Ever After
Being Alive
Something Just Broke
The Gun Song
Smile, Girls
Finishing the Hat
Beautiful
Children Will Listen
Send in the Clowns
Company/ Old Friends
Anyone Can Whistle