Poor Thing lyrics

[Sweeney:]

You got room over the shop, don't you?

Times is so hard, why don't you rent it out?

[Mrs. Lovett:]

People think its haunted.

[Sweeney:]

...Haunted?

[Mrs. Lovett:]

Yeah.

And who's to say they're wrong?

You see, years ago, something happened up there.

Something not very nice...

There was a barber and his wife

And he was beautiful...

A proper artist with a knife

But they transported him for life

And he was beautiful...

Barker, his name was.

Benjamin Barker.

[Sweeney:]

...What was his crime?

[Mrs. Lovett:]

Foolishness.

He had this wife, you see

Pretty little thing, silly little nit

Had her chance for the moon on a string

Poor thing...

Poor thing...

There was this judge, you see

Wanted her like mad

Everyday he'd send her a flower

But did she come down from her tower?

Sat up there and sobbed by the hour

Poor fool...

Ah but there was worse yet to come,

Poor thing!

The Beadle calls on her, all polite

Poor thing!

Poor thing!

"The Judge" he tells her, "is all contrite,

He blames himself for her dreadful plight,

She must come straight to his house tonight!"

Poor thing!

Poor thing!

Of course when she goes there

Poor thing!

Poor thing!

They're having this ball all in masks...

There's no one she knows there

Poor dear

Poor thing

She wanders tormented and drinks

Poor thing!

"The Judge has repented" she thinks

Poor thing

"Oh, where is Judge Turpin?" she asks...

He was there, alright?

Only not so contrite!

She wasn't no match for such craft, you see

And everyone thought "it's so droll"

They figured she had to be daft, you see

So all of them stood there and laughed, you see

Poor soul!

Poor thing!

[Sweeney:]

NOOO!

Would no one have mercy on her?

[Mrs. Lovett:]

So it is you!

Benjamin Barker!

[Sweeney:]

NO! Not "Barker".

That man is dead.

It's "Todd" now, Sweeney Todd.

And he will have his revenge!

• Artist:Sweeney Todd (OST)
• Album:Sweeney Todd OST