Finishing the Hat - Stephen Sondheim, Evan Harrington

Mademoiselles\nYou end me, pal\nSecond bottle\nAh, she looks for me\nBonnet flapping\nYapping\nRuff\nChicken\nPastry\nYes, she looks for me good\nLet her look for me\nTo tell me why she left me\nAs I always knew she would\nI had thought she understood\nThey have never understood\nAnd no reason that they should\nBut if anybody could, finishing the hat\nHow you have to finish the hat\nHow you watch the rest of the world\nFrom a window while you finish the hat\nMapping out a sky\nWhat you feel like, planning a sky\nWhat you feel when voices that come\nThrough the window\nGo\nUntil they distance and die\nUntil there’s nothing but sky\nAnd how you’re always turning back too late\nFrom the grass or the stick\nOr the dog or the light\nHow the kind of woman willing to wait’s\nNot the kind that you want to find waiting\nTo return you to the night\nDizzy from the height\nComing from the hat, studying the hat\nEntering the world of the hat\nReaching through the world of the hat\nLike a window\nBack to this one from that\nStudying a face\nStepping back to look at a face\nLeaves a little space in the way like a window\nBut to see, it’s the only way to see\nAnd when the woman that you wanted goes\nYou can say to yourself, «Well, I give what I give»\nBut the women who won’t wait for you knows\nThat, however you live\nThere’s a part of you always standing by\nMapping out the sky, finishing a hat\nStarting on a hat, finishing a hat\nLook, I made a hat\nWhere there never was a hat