Stay and Talk... Lyrics

Stay and Talk... Text

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STARBUCK
Well, stay and talk. It’s lonely out here. Now, what are you so afraid of?

LIZZIE
You! I don’t trust you!

STARBUCK
Why? What don’t you trust about me?

LIZZIE
Everything! The way you talk, the way you brag—why, even your name!

STARBUCK
What’s wrong with my name?

LIZZIE
It sounds fake! It sounds like you made it up!

STARBUCK
Well, you’re darn right. I did make it up! You know what name I was born with?
Smith, for the love of Mike, Smith! What kind of handle for a fella like me?
No, I needed a name with the whole sky in it. And the power of a man!
Star—buck! Now that’s a name—and it’s mine!

LIZZIE
No it’s not. You were born Smith—now that’s your name.

STARBUCK
You’re wrong Lizzie!
The name you choose for yourself is more your won than the one you’re born with!
And if I were you then I’d sure choose another name than Lizzie!

LIZZIE
Thank you—I’m very pleased with it.

STARBUCK
Oh no you’re not! You’re not pleased with anything about yourself.
And I am sure you are not pleased with “Lizzie.”

LIZZIE
I don’t ask you to be pleased with it, Starbuck. I am!

STARBUCK
Lizzie? It doesn’t stand for anything!

LIZZIE
It stands for me! Me! I’m not the Queen of Sheba—I’m not Lady Godiva—I’m not Cinderella at the ball!

STARBUCK
Would you like to be?

LIZZIE
Starbuck, you’re ridiculous!

STARBUCK
Now, hold on one little minute! Now, I have got the greatest name for you.
The greatest name! Just listen!

Melisande!

LIZZIE
I don’t like it.

STARBUCK
Well, that’s because you don’t know anything about her!
But when I tell you who she was—oh, lady, when I tell you who she was!

LIZZIE
Who?

STARBUCK
Why, she was the most beautiful—she was the beautiful wife of King Hamlet!
You ever hear of him?

LIZZIE
Go on, Starbuck, Go on.