The London Concert track 5:
Finishing the hat

Yes, he looks for me, good.
Let him look for me
To tell me why he left me,
As I always knew he would.
I had thought he understood,
They have never understood,
And no reason why they should,
But, if anybody could...

Finishing the hat.
How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finish the hat.
Mapping out a sky
What you feel like planning a sky.
What you feel when voices that come
Through the window
Go
Until they distance and die,
Until there's nothing but sky.

And how you're always turning back
Too late from the grass or the stick
Or the dog or the light.
How the kind of man who's willing to wait's
Not the kind that you want to find waiting
To return you to the night,
Dizzy from the height.

Coming from the hat.
Studying the hat.
Entering the world of the hat.
Reaching through the world of the hat like a window
Back to this one from that.

Studying a face.
Stepping back to look at a face,
leaves a little space in the way like a window.
But to see--
It's the only way to see.

And when the lover that you wanted goes
You can say to yourself,
"Well, I give what I give."
But the lover who won't wait for you knows
That however you live, there's a part of you
Always standing by, mapping out a sky.

Finishing the hat.
Starting on a hat.
Finishing the hat.
Look, I made a hat
Where there never was a hat.

Words and music by: Stephen Sondheim
Revelation Music
Ritling Music