Ah! But Underneath (From "Follies, 1987")

歌手: Cleo Laine • 专辑:Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim • 发布时间:1988-03-21
Never judge a book by its cover...
 The thing that counts is what's inside
 Never judge a lady by her lover...
 It isn't a reliable guide

 The lady may decide her obligations
 Are merely to reflect his expectations
 If his idea of ecstasy's
 To see what he expects to see --
 Well, ignorance is bliss
 But think of what he'll miss...

 She was smart, tart, dry as a martini
 Ah, but underneath...
 She was all heart, something by Puccini
 Ah, but underneath...

 In the depths of her interior
 Were fears she was inferior
 And something even eerier
 But no one dared to query her superior exterior

 She was chic, sleek, anything in fashion
 That was just a shell
 Take a close peek, you could see the passion
 That was one as well

 To conclude, you'd soon discover the secret of her appeal
 Was the wonder which lay underneath
 Which she wasn't about to reveal

 That was her liability, the curse of versatility
 She'd only allow a man to see enough to fan his fantasy
 She made compliance into a science
 One of the giants
 Loud or lewd or lah-di-dah-dee
 Everything to everybody
 As changeable as a chameleon with all that entails
 But nobody saw what was really underneath all those veils
 She was grand, bland, brave or brisk or brittle
 Anything required...
 Both concerned and strictly non-committal
 And a little tired...
 She was deftly deferential, or so they wrote on her wreath
 No one ever glimpsed her potential
 But when stripped down to the essential...
 Mind you, this is confidential...
 Way down underneath!
 She was...
 She was...
 She was...
 Sometimes when the wrappings fall
 There's nothing underneath at all!
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