I Guess This Is Goodbye / Maybe They're Magic Songtext
von Stephen Sondheim

I guess this is goodbye, old pal
You′ve been a perfect friend
I hate to see us part, old pal
Someday I'll buy you back

I′ll see you soon again
I hope that when I do
It won't be on a plate

Magic beans?
We've no reason to believe they′re magic!
Are we to dispel this curse through deceit?

No one would′ve given him more for that creature
We did him a favor!
At least now they'll have some food!

Five beans


If you know what you want
Then you go and you find it and you get it
(Home) Do we want a child or not?
And you give and you take
And you bid and you bargain
Or you live to regret it
(Will you please go home?)

There are rights and wrongs and in betweens
No one waits when fortune intervenes
And maybe they′re really magic! Who knows?
Why you do what you do
That's the point
All the rest of it is chatter
(No it′s not!)
If the thing you do is pure in intent
If it's meant
And it′s just a little bent
Does it matter? (Yes!) No!

What matters is that everyone tells tiny lies
What's important really is the size
(What?)
Only three more tries and we'll have our prize
When the end′s in sight you′ll realize
If the end is right
It justifies the beans!