MUSIC: I Read

Stephen Sondheim is,in my opinion, the second best lyricist in American music. Here is one of the reasons for my opinionated opinion:

“I do not read to think, I do not read to learn.

I do not read to search for truth

I know the truth, the truth is hardly what I need.

I read to dream.

I read to live in other people’s lives.

I read about the joys the world

Dispenses to the fortunate,

And listen for the echoes.

I read to live,

To get away from life!

I read to fly, to skim-

I do not read to swim.”

                        from Passion, first produced in 1994.