todd Blog and Journals

Hi everyone!  This is for all those Sweeney Todd fans out there!  Two poems, one in Todd's POV, and another in Mrs. Loveless' POV.  To Our Desired Demise(T.O.D.D.) and Loveless(Lovett).

To Our Desired Demise

Sweeny Todd tells his story

 
You were my best friend
The one person I could trust in the world.
We danced, we sang, and danced some more
Nothing could separate us, it was us against everyone.

 I held the knife upon your throat
For the slightest second, fear crossed your eyes.
But then it melted away and we danced once again
You knew I wouldn’t ever hurt you.

 I saw it, I heard it, I felt it all the time.
I knew very well you were in love with me.
I wanted to love you too
But as hard as I tried, I just couldn’t do it.

 “Dear”, “Love”, all the so many names you called me.
Your voice in my ear, your reflection in my weapons.
Your breath hot against the back of my neck
I turn; you are so close; what do you want from me?

I’ve given you everything you wanted and more.
I gave you a friend, someone to talk to
I gave you meat for your pies, famous to all.
You’re lovely my dear, body and soul, but I cannot love you.

 I signed my heart to another
The one angel in this world
Sent from the heavens above to possibly save me.
She died long ago, as you know, as you told me.

 She took my heart, my love with her
That’s why you cannot possibly have it.
“Please be happy,” you whisper against my cheek
How can I when the angel killed me when she died?

 All was done, all was said
My revenge was sweet, bloody, just as I’d hoped
Such anger flowed as I splashed myself with his blood.
But the crimson tide did little to ease my sorrow.

 No matter how many judges I took lives from
Just as they took the life from me
It would never bring the angel back.
She left me; she was right to; look what I’ve become.

That same fateful night it happened
When I killed the old wench who kept bothering.
Then I looked upon her pale face closer
My breath declined; the angel!

 So sick, betrayed, disgusted
How could you lie to me like this?!
After all I’ve done for you
I was going to take you as my wife, and you deceit me like this!

We danced, rough and fast
You looked upon me with eyes of obsession.
Completely unaware of the flames we came closer to
As you danced with the demon barber one last time.

The last thing you saw was my face
As you burned lively in exile.
Screaming out as the eyes you fell in love with
Looked upon you with bitterness and hate.

I went back to the angel.
Her blood staining the floor, my clothes, my skin.
I took her cooling body into my arms
I caressed her pale cheek; what happened to her?

Life probably; as it had done me
This world had sucked her beauty and life away
Oh my love, I’m so sorry, I thought you were dead
How could you ever forgive me?

The boy came in
He knew I knew; that I’d killed you.
I always knew he fancied you
And he knew what I had done to you.

I honestly couldn’t care less
As he brought up my own weapon.
I was a true murderer now
The real demon barber on Fleet Street.

My breath stopped immediately
Death came rushing quick
I saw your pale face one last time
Then all went black for me.

I knew you’d be waiting for me in Heaven.
The one place I knew I wouldn’t go.
You waited, waited, waited, waited
As I spent the rest of my damned eternity with Lovett.

Loveless

Mrs. Lovett tells her story

 

You sing of destruction, sorrow, death
You sing of revenge that’s thick in your veins.
Your voice echoes everywhere in my store
Even when you’re not here.

Oh, you’re so lovely my dear
The person I love more than myself.
I’ll dance with you forever
Night, day, rain, sleet; we shall just dance.

You spoil me with the ones you kill
Making my pies even more famous.
You make everything so livable
I couldn’t breathe without you.

Such torment, such anguish goes through your soul.
Oh how I wish I could rid you of it.
You took my pain away the moment I saw you.
I try, try, try; hopefully it will work.

Your revenge is done.
You killed that stupid judge.
I’ll make a special pie out of him for you.
And now I’ll try harder to prove my love for you.

Maybe it’s worked
You'll take my hand in marriage.
Oh the kiss that I’d desired will be everything I imagined.
That kiss will save my life.

 I smile, laugh, ease your suffering
Am I getting through to you?
Oh I hope so my love
I want you to suffer no longer.

That’s why I told you she was dead
The one person you loved more than anything.
So it would be easier on you
On me, on our future I knew would happen.

And look, it’s happened!
We shall spend the rest of our lives together
In total bliss, love, bound by marriage.
Just please do cheer up dear.

That happiness shattered like a mirror
When you caught me and my lie.
You held your weapon to my throat
You danced with me feverishly.

As angry as the dance was,
I felt safe with you.
You wouldn’t harm me my love
I knew it, you knew it, we both knew it.

This has happened before
You put me in situations that are dangerous.
But they aren’t at all, because you control them
I know you love me in some way, you just wouldn’t do it.
 
Imagine my shock when heat constricted my throat
Choking flames enveloping my body.
I screamed; the pain was so unbearable!
I needed to get out, but all I could manage was struggling.

My dress was caught on something
I still haven’t a clue what it was.
But it kept me trapped in the oven
As you watched right outside the door.

I saw your face, pale, dark, and angry
The face that’d I’d come to love more than anything.
You actually killed me; it was true
You killed your wife, and now your future wife too.

The oven closed, but I still saw your eyes
Staring at me like two burning coals.
As if they belonged in the oven with me.
They beamed red from the firelight and then they disappeared.

It was the last thing I saw
Before I was damned to Hell.
But I waited very, very patiently
For I knew you were to come back to me.

You, the demon barber on Fleet Street
Would return back to where you belong
Right here beside me
Right here in Hell.

You scream in agony when you see me
You know where you’ve come and damned to be.
I think you also realized at that moment
That you’re also damned to me.

Hope you guys like them!  Oh and you wanna know the funny part?  I still haven't seen the movie.  Tee-hee.