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Finishing the Hat by Mandy Patinkin

Release Date
Sun Jul 01 1984
Performed by
Mandy Patinkin
Produced by
Thomas Z. Shepard
Writed by
Stephen Sondheim
About

After Georges Seurat’s neglected love interest, Dot, gloats about her new lover and the other characters exit the park with their own partners and situations, George reflects on his results from the day and muses about the troubles of being devoted to making art.

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Finishing the Hat Lyrics

[GEORGE]
Mademoiselles...
You and me, pal...
Second bottle...
Ah, she looks for me...
Bonnet flapping...
Yapping...
Ruff!...
Chicken...
Pastry...

Yes, she looks for me
Good
Let her look for me to tell me why she left me—
As I always knew she would
I had thought she understood
They have never understood
And no reason that they should
But if anybody could...

Finishing the hat
How you have to finish the hat
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finish the hat

Mapping out a sky
What you feel like, planning a sky
What you feel when voices that come
Through the window
Go
Until they distance and die
Until there's nothing but sky

And how you're always turning back too late
From the grass or the stick
Or the dog or the light
How the kind of woman willing to wait's
Not the kind that you want to find waiting
To return you to the night
Dizzy from the height
Coming from the hat

Studying the hat
Entering the world of the hat
Reaching through the world of the hat
Like a window
Back to this one from that

Studying a face
Stepping back to look at a face
Leaves a little space in the way like a window
But to see—
It's the only way to see

And when the woman that you wanted goes
You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give"
But the woman who won't wait for you knows
That however you live
There's a part of you always standing by
Mapping out the sky
Finishing a hat
Starting on a hat
Finishing a hat...
Look, I made a hat...
Where there never was a hat

Finishing the Hat Q&A

Who wrote Finishing the Hat's ?

Finishing the Hat was written by Stephen Sondheim.

Who produced Finishing the Hat's ?

Finishing the Hat was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.

When did Mandy Patinkin release Finishing the Hat?

Mandy Patinkin released Finishing the Hat on Sun Jul 01 1984.

What did Mandy Patinkin say about "Finishing the Hat"?

In Look, I Made a Hat, Sondheim writes:

If the songs “Good Thing Going” and “Opening Doors” in Merrily We Roll Along are personal to me in that they reflect actual experiences I’ve had, “Finishing the Hat” reflects an emotional experience shared by everybody to some degree or other, but more keenly...

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