I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face-Alan Jay Lerner

[ti:I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face] [ar:Alan Jay Lerner] [al:My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Alan Jay Lerner [00:17.57]I've grown accustomed to her face [00:19.51] [00:24.94]She almost makes the day begin [00:26.54] [00:29.04]I've grown accustomed to the tune [00:30.85] [00:31.62]That she whistles night and noon [00:33.67]Her smiles her frowns [00:35.36] [00:36.09]Her ups her downs [00:38.52]Are second nature to me now [00:40.41] [00:42.73]Like breathing out breathing in [00:45.01] [00:47.33]I was serenely independent and content before we met [00:50.93] [00:52.01]Surely I could always be that way again and yet [00:56.91] [00:57.83]I've grown accustomed to her looks [01:00.00] [01:01.04]Accustomed to her voice [01:02.56] [01:03.78]Accustomed to her face [01:07.53] [01:12.41]Marry Freddie [01:13.16] [01:14.21]What an infantile idea [01:15.74]What a heartless wicked brainless thing to do [01:17.96] [01:18.65]She'll regret it [01:19.39] [01:20.05]She'll regret it [01:20.76] [01:21.71]It's doomed before they even take the vow [01:24.23] [01:25.69]I can see her now Mrs Freddie Eynsford-Hill [01:28.99]In a wretched little flat above a store [01:30.85] [01:31.69]I can see her now not a penny in the till [01:34.48]Oh and a bill collecting beating in the door [01:36.51] [01:37.22]She'll try to teach the things I taught [01:38.99] [01:40.05]And end up selling flowers instead [01:41.88] [01:42.89]Begging for her bread and water [01:44.64] [01:45.38]While her husband has his breakfast in bed [01:47.46] [01:50.65]In a year or so [01:52.35]When she's prematurely gray [01:53.79]When the blossoms in her cheek has turned to chalk [01:55.89] [01:56.69]She'll come home and lo [01:58.28]He'll have upped and ran away [01:59.86]With a social climbing heiress from New York [02:01.70] [02:03.43]Poor Eliza How simply frightful [02:06.63] [02:07.63]How humiliating How delightful [02:11.13] [02:12.84]How pining would it be on that inevitable night' [02:15.48] [02:16.59]When she hammers on my door in tears and rag [02:18.94] [02:19.73]Miserable and lonely repentant and contrite [02:22.07] [02:23.23]Will I take her in or hurl her to the wall [02:25.25] [02:26.24]Give her kindness or the treatment she deserve [02:28.47] [02:29.70]Will I take her back or pull the baggage out [02:32.91] [02:36.94]Well I'm a most forgiving man [02:38.16] [02:39.18]The sort who never could never would [02:41.79] [02:42.48]Take a position and staunchly never budge [02:44.93] [02:48.34]A most forgiving [02:49.96] [02:53.28]BUT I shall never take her back [02:55.53] [02:56.92]She's crawling on her knees [02:58.10] [02:59.48]Let her promise to atone let her shiver let her moan [03:02.31]Then I'll slam the door and let the hellcat freeze [03:05.79] [03:08.20]Marry Freddie HA [03:09.75] [03:19.61]But I'm so used to hear her say "Good morning" every day [03:23.75] [03:24.57]Her joys her woes her highs her lows [03:29.99]Are second nature to me now [03:32.05] [03:34.44]Like breathing out and breathing in [03:36.86] [03:39.20]I'm very grateful she's a woman [03:40.83] [03:41.40]And very easy to forget [03:42.71] [03:43.97]Rather like a habit one can always break [03:47.16] [03:48.95]Yet I've grown accustomed to the trace of [03:53.02] [03:54.25]Something in the air [03:55.38] [03:56.56]Accustomed to her face