Color and Light

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Color and Light by Annaleigh Ashford

Color and Light Lyrics

[00:04.86] George taught me all about concentration
[00:08.16] "The art of being still" he said
[00:16.34] I guess I did not learn it soon enough
[00:19.35] George likes to be alone
[00:22.95] Sometimes he will work all night long painting
[00:27.21] We fought about that
[00:29.26] I need sleep
[00:32.08] I love to dream
[00:34.42] George doesn't need as much sleep as everyone else
[00:37.88] And he never tells me his dreams
[00:43.45] George has many secrets
[00:47.27]
[00:51.91] Order
[00:58.23] Design
[01:02.22] Composition
[01:03.87] Tone
[01:05.70] Form
[01:07.40] Symmetry
[01:08.99] Balance
[01:11.62] More red
[01:14.03] And a little more red
[01:18.69] Blue blue blue blue
[01:19.35] Blue blue blue blue
[01:19.95] Even even
[01:22.30] Good
[01:25.49] Bumbum bum bumbumbum
[01:26.92] Bumbum bum
[01:32.09] More red
[01:35.56] More blue
[01:38.82] More beer
[01:45.11] More light
[01:49.13] Color and light
[01:51.80] There's only color and light
[01:55.58] Yellow and white
[01:58.45] Just blue and yellow and white
[02:02.45] Look at the air, miss
[02:04.81] See what I mean?
[02:08.86] No, look over there, miss
[02:11.51] That's done with green
[02:15.19] Conjoined with orange
[02:20.16] Nothing seems to fit me right
[02:25.98] The less I wear, the more comfortable I feel
[02:30.14] More rouge
[02:32.68] George is very special
[02:36.72] Maybe I'm just not special enough for him
[02:42.75] If my legs were longer
[02:47.16] If my bust was smaller
[02:50.21] If my hands were graceful
[02:53.95] If my waist was thinner
[02:57.55] If my hips were flatter
[03:00.13] If my voice was warm
[03:03.88] If I could concentrate
[03:10.14] I'd be in the Follies
[03:13.69] I'd be in a cabaret
[03:16.22] Gentlemen in tall silk hats
[03:17.94] And linen spats
[03:19.58] Would wait with flowers
[03:21.45] I could make them wait for hours
[03:24.33] Giddy young aristocrats
[03:26.33] With fancy flats
[03:27.58] Would drink my health
[03:29.35] And I would be as hard as nails
[03:34.55] And they'd only want me more
[03:40.27] If I was a folly girl
[03:45.42] Nah, I wouldn't like it much
[03:51.51] Married men and stupid boys
[03:54.11] And too much smoke and all that noise
[03:57.54] And all that color and light
[04:00.06] Aren't you proper today, miss?
[04:02.12] Your parasol so properly cocked
[04:04.22] Your bustle so perfectly upright
[04:06.23] No doubt your chin rests at just the proper angle from your chest
[04:09.81] And you sir
[04:11.07] Your hat so black
[04:12.82] So black to you, perhaps
[04:14.63] So red to me
[04:16.43] None of the others worked at night
[04:18.88] So composed for a Sunday
[04:20.65] How do you work without the right
[04:22.29] Bright
[04:23.54] White
[04:24.39] Light?
[04:25.47] How do you fathom George?
[04:27.98] Red red red red
[04:28.48] Red red orange
[04:29.40] Red red orange
[04:30.04] Orange pick up blue
[04:30.77] Pick up red
[04:31.47] Pick up orange
[04:31.76] From the blue-green blue-green
[04:32.51] Blue-green circle
[04:33.65] On the violet diagonal
[04:34.52] Di-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag-o-nal-nal
[04:35.87] Yellow comma yellow comma
[04:37.61] Numnum num numnumnum
[04:39.25] Numnum num
[04:41.09] Blue blue blue blue
[04:42.04] Blue still sitting
[04:42.80] Red that perfume
[04:43.75] Blue all night
[04:44.37] Blue-green the window shut
[04:45.62] Dut dut dut
[04:46.49] Dot Dot sitting
[04:47.07] Dot Dot waiting
[04:48.09] Dot Dot getting fat fat fat
[04:49.72] More yellow
[04:50.40] Dot Dot waiting to go
[04:51.83] Out out out
[04:52.10] But no no no George
[04:53.87] Finish the hat finish the hat
[04:55.02] Have to finish the hat first
[04:56.34] Hat hat hat hat
[04:56.96] Hot hot hot it's hot in here
[05:03.00] Sunday!
[05:12.71] Color and light!
[05:14.04] But how George looks, he could look forever
[05:15.70] There's only color and light
[05:17.34] As if he sees you and he doesn't all at once
[05:19.62] Purple and white
[05:21.28] What is he thinking when he looks like that?
[05:22.61] Just blue and purple and white
[05:23.84] What does he see? Sometimes, not even blinking
[05:25.72] Look at this glade, girls
[05:27.73] Your cool blue spot
[05:30.11] His eyes, so dark and shiny
[05:32.24] No, stay in the shade, girls
[05:34.98] It's getting hot
[05:37.00] Some think cold and black
[05:38.98] It's getting orange
[05:44.98] But it's warm inside his eyes
[05:48.15] Hotter
[05:52.04] And it's soft inside his eyes
[05:59.49] And he burns you with his eyes
[06:03.54] Look at her looking
[06:06.41] And you're studied like the light
[06:10.09] Forever with that mirror
[06:12.45] What does she see?
[06:15.02] The round face
[06:16.72] The tiny pout
[06:18.74] The soft mouth
[06:21.88] The creamy skin
[06:27.14] And you look inside the eyes
[06:28.88] The pink lips, the red cheeks
[06:30.84] And you catch him here and there
[06:32.54] The wide eyes
[06:34.59] Studying the round face, the pout
[06:36.29] But he's never really there
[06:37.55] Seeing all the parts and none of the whole
[06:38.54] So you want him even more
[06:40.91] But the way she catches light
[06:42.53] And you drown inside his eyes
[06:45.46] And the color of her hair
[06:51.05] I could look at him forever
[07:09.75] It's going well
[07:11.80] Should I wear my red dress or blue?
[07:16.76] Red
[07:19.30] Aren't you going to clean up?
[07:20.79] Why?
[07:22.96] The Follies, George
[07:25.28] I have to finish the hat
[07:32.77] Damn
[07:40.22] The Follies
[07:42.62] Will she yell or stay silent?
[07:45.97] Go without me or sulk in the corner?
[07:49.16] Will she be in the bed when the hat and the grass and the parasol have finally found their way?
[07:55.54] Too green
[07:57.16] Do I care?
[07:58.51] Too blue
[08:00.26] Yes
[08:02.38] Too soft
[08:04.06] What should I do?
[08:05.45] Well
[08:11.93] Red
[08:15.34]

From the album: Sunday in the Park with George (2017 Broadway Cast Recording)