Pleasant Little Kingdom / Too Many Mornings

Lyrics

[BEN] It's a pleasant little kingdom Full of pleasant little things Full of scintillating dinners With neighboring kings There's a castle in the country For weekends of rest And we entertain at parties In the little time remaining And we're entertained by others And it's very entertaining An efficient little kingdom The dominion of the queen Where at any given moment The ashtrays are clean There are many little battles Which never are fought And if, on occasion, I think about you It's a pleasant little thought So I write another book And I head another drive And we take a trip we took And the dinner guests arrive And unless you really look You would think we were alive, and God! [SALLY] It's a pleasant little kingdom Full of pleasant little days There are charities and lectures And flowers to raise There are amateur dramatics And evenings of bridge And I go to civic luncheons When there's someone to remind me And I study the piano And I never look behind me It's a merry little kingdom Full of merry little chores Lots of gardening and fixing All very outdoors In the driveway is a sports car I shouldn't have bought And if, on occasion, I think about you I eliminate the thought So I read a little here And I sew a little there And the children disappear And the castle needs repair And I never shed a tear And I never turn a hair, and Ben! [BEN] God help me, Sally I've loved you all my life! Too many mornings Waking and pretending I reach for you Thousands of mornings Dreaming of my girl All that time wasted Merely passing through Time I could have spent So content Wasting time with you Too many mornings Wishing that the room might be filled with you Morning to morning Turning into days All the days That I thought would never end All the nights With another day to spend All those times I'd look up to see Sally standing at the door Sally moving to the bed Sally resting in my arms With her head against my head [SALLY, spoken] If you don't kiss me, Ben, I think I'm going to die (sung) How I planned What I'd wear tonight And when should I get here? How should I find you? Where I'd stand What I'd say in case you didn't remember How I'd remind you You remembered And my fears were wrong! Was it ever real? Did I ever love you this much? Did we ever feel So happy then? [BEN] It was always real [SALLY] I should have worn green [BEN] And I've always loved you this much [SALLY] I wore green the last time [BEN] We can always feel this happy [SALLY] The time I was happy [BEN & SALLY] Too many mornings Wasted in pretending I reach for you How many mornings Are there still to come? How much time Can we hope that there will be? Not much time But it's time enough for me If there's time To look up and see (be) Sally standing at the door Sally moving to the bed Sally resting in my (your) arms With your head against my head