Evening Primrose Medley: If You Can Find Me I'm Here - Mandy Patinkin

Is it done?

Are they gone?

Am I alone?

I am alone

It’s done

They’re gone

I am a genius

Charles, you are an unadulterated genius

You are an indisputable extraordinary

What was that?

Not a thing-you're a fool

You are alone

And it begins

Careful, careful

Mustn’t get excited

Mustn’t overdo it

Softly, tiptoe

You’ll get used to it in no time

Look at it

Beautiful

What a place to live

What a place to write!

I shall be inspired

I shall turn out elegies and sonnets

Verses by the ton

At last I have a home

And nobody will know

No one in the world

Nobody will know I am here

I am free

I am free!

Goodbye, my friends and good riddance

Pardon, while I disappear

Come see me soon in my hideaway

If you can find me, I’m here

Farewell, you bloodsucking landlords

Pouring your threats in my ear

Good luck forever to you and yours

If you can find me, I’m here

And I’ll stay

Cozily hiding by day

During the day I’ll resign

Waiting 'til you go away

But at nine

Master of all I survey

Everything gets to be mine to own

Mine to use

Mine to write all the poems I choose

All alone, only me and my Muse

And forty pianos and ten thousand shoes!

Farewell, Neanderthal neighbors

Swilling your pretzels and beer

Fair-weather friends, do you miss me now?

If you can find me, I’m here

Goodbye, despoilers of beauty

Ruin another career

When you wake up with one genius less

If you can find me, I’m here

And I’m free

Free as a bird in a tree

Free as the slippers I wear

Free with a year’s warranty

Free as air

All of these products and me

All that I ask is a chair

That tilts

Books to read

Light refreshment before I proceed

And a blazer or maybe a tweed

The barest essentials a poet would need

Live in your barbarous jungles

Screaming for ways to get clear

When all the screaming has died away

Come and visit my hideaway

I will be glad to provide a way

If you can find me

I’m here

I am here

I am here