I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

[00:12.98] Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!
[00:17.18] I've grown accustomed to her face
[00:18.73]
[00:24.88] She almost makes the day begin
[00:29.50] I've grown accustomed to the tune
[00:32.74] She whistles night and noon
[00:35.37] Her smiles, her frowns
[00:37.96] Her ups, her downs
[00:40.86] Are second nature to me now
[00:45.92] Like breathing out and breathing in
[00:50.94] I was serenely independent
[00:53.52] And content before we met
[00:56.67] Surely I can always be that way again
[01:01.91] And yet, I've grown accustomed to her looks
[01:08.26] Accustomed to her voice
[01:11.49] Accustomed to her face
[01:19.73] Marry Freddy
[01:21.09] What an infantile idea
[01:23.16] What a heartless, wicked, brainless thing to do
[01:26.96] But she'll regret it
[01:27.91] She'll regret it
[01:29.58] It's doomed before they even take the vow
[01:32.77] I can see her now
[01:34.59] Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill
[01:36.31] In a wretched little flat above a store
[01:39.20] I can see her now
[01:41.03] Not a penny in the till
[01:42.70] And a bill collector beating at the door
[01:46.17] She'll try to teach the things I taught her
[01:49.22] And end up selling flowers instead
[01:52.44] Begging for her bread and water
[01:55.56] While her husband has his breakfast in bed
[02:01.10] In a year or so
[02:03.52] When she's prematurely gray
[02:05.04] And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk
[02:08.51] She'll come home and lo
[02:10.04] He'll have upped and run away
[02:11.93] With a social climbing heiress from New York
[02:15.18] Poor Eliza
[02:16.62] How simply frightful
[02:18.24] How humiliating
[02:19.82] How delightful
[02:24.04] How poignant it will be
[02:25.62] On that inevitable night
[02:27.25] When she hammers on my door
[02:28.88] In tears and rags
[02:30.81] Miserable and lonely
[02:32.28] Repentant and contrite
[02:34.28] Will I let her in or hurl her to the wolves?
[02:36.45] Show her kindness or the treatment she deserves?
[02:39.04] Will I take her back or throw the baggage out?
[02:45.40] I'm a most forgiving man
[02:49.04] The sort who never could
[02:51.01] Ever would
[02:52.20] Take her position and staunchly never budge
[02:58.16] Just a most forgiving man
[03:03.72] But I shall never take her back!
[03:08.43] If she were crawling on her knees
[03:11.34] Let her shiver. let her moan
[03:12.98] Let her promise to atone
[03:14.55] I will slam the door
[03:16.19] And let the hellcat freeze!
[03:20.54] Marry Freddy
[03:21.94] Ha!
[03:22.96]
[03:33.29] But I'm so used to hear her say
[03:36.20] "Good morning" every day
[03:38.76] Her joys, her woes
[03:41.35] Her highs, her lows
[03:44.02] Are second nature to me now
[03:48.84] Like breathing out and breathing in
[03:53.66] I'm very grateful she's a woman
[03:56.55] And so easy to forget
[03:59.35] Rather like a habit
[04:01.41] One can always break
[04:04.66] And yet
[04:06.70] I've grown accustomed to the trace
[04:10.99] Of something in the air
[04:13.86] Accustomed to her face
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