Entering Grey Gardens

Lyrics

[ENSEMBLE TENOR (Gould)] When hedges hide the world away [EDITH, spoken] Edie! [ENSEMBLE TENOR] And shadows blur the time of day [EDITH, spoken] Edie! [EDIE, spoken] I'm feeding the cats! [ENSEMBLE TENOR] When cans of cat food are p�t� [ENSEMBLE] You're entering Grey Gardens [EDITH, spoken] Liver p�t�, you have to make it! I can't make it! [EDIE, spoken] When am I gonna get outta here? [ENSEMBLE SOPRANO (Young Edie)] The musty smell of feline fur [ENSEMBLE BASS (Major)] The dusty marks where pictures were [ENSEMBLE MEZZO & ALTO (Jackie & Lee)] The vermin in the furniture [ENSEMBLE] You're entering Gr5y Gardens [EDITH, spoken] Edie! [ENSEMBLE HIGH TENOR (Kennedy)] The c5iling sags The stairway creaks [ENSEMBLE BARITONE (Brooks)] The faucet drips The toilet leaks [ENSEMBLE TENOR] The crumbling walls [ENSEMBLE BASS] The broken clocks [ENSEMBLE] It's like a twenty eight room litter box [ENSEMBLE TENOR] One hundred fifty windowsills To catch a wink or two [ENSEMBLE] And that's Grey Gardens from a cat's eye view [EDITH, spoken] I'll die if I don't eat! [EDIE, spoken] I found your p�t�, mother darling I think it's p�t� The label, it's faded Is it p�t� or is it giblets for the cats? [ENSEMBLE] The fog rolls in, and there it stays It suffocates the house in haze From room to room, it drifts about And nobody except a cat gets out [ENSEMBLE TENOR] A haven from a callous world With no one sayin' "shoo" [ENSEMBLE] And that's Grey Gardens from a cat's eye view [EDIE, spoken] I may die with this diet, I don't like it at all [EDITH, spoken] Ever since you started trying to lose weight you've been impossible [EDIE, spoken] I'm not gaining it back [EDITH, spoken] Starve yourself, not me! [EDIE, spoken] Here's your p�t�, mother darling