I Don’t Know / Anyone Who Loves lyrics

[Part I: I Don't Know]

[REVEREND BOYLE]
I don't know
I don't know
It's a strange predicament I'm in
I don't know
I don't know
How can loving ever really be a sin?
My conscience is in a tangle: Can
Someone who's Anglican
Take all the rules he has
Lived by and defy them?
Yet in a world so precarious
Someone says, "Marry us"
No matter who they are
How can I deny them?

[HARRY]
I agree

[SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE]
So do we

[HARRY]
You shut up
No one asked for your advice
Like I said
Go ahead

[BOYLE]
You'd proceed?

[HARRY]
Yes, indeed
Let 'em wed

[BOYLE]
I don't know
I don't know

[SHIRLEY]
He don't know
There he goes with that again

[HARRY]
Let him think

[ELAINE]
Give him a drink

[BOYLE]
Can a wedding be performed with only men?
Religiously I'd be vilified
Surely I will if I'd
Sanction a fruitless
And unproductive mating
[ELAINE]
Hell, what's he all in a sweat about?
Can't he forget about
Sex and get on with
Champagne and celebrating?

[HARRY]
Zip it up
Zip it up
This is not for your prehistoric minds

[ELAINE]
He knows where
He can go

[BOYLE]
You say yes?
Acquiesce?

[HARRY]
I don't know
Why not ask our dear Contessa?
She's no clergical professor
But I'd like to know what she would have to say

[BOYLE]
In our perilous condition
Charles and Edward asked permission
No, entreated me to marry them today
If it were you
What would you do?
[CONTESSA]
I don't know
I don't know
I can see it's hard to say, "Of course"
Then again
They are men
And they'll cheat and soon be suing for divorce

[BEBE]
Let's leave it to the majority

[CONTESSA]
I'm no authority

[HARRY]
Neither are you

[BEBE]
Harry, baby, that goes double

[CONTESSA]
Poor boys, it will be a blow to them
If you say no to them

[BOYLE]
But by the canon I'd
Be inviting trouble

[HARRY]
That ain't good

[BOYLE]
But I would
Why must right and righteous be so far apart?

[CHARLES & EDWARD enter.]

[CHARLES]
Reverend Boyle
Have you thought?

[BOYLE]
I don't know
If I can
If I ought

[SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE]
I don't see why he's afraid to do
What he is paid to do

[CONTESSA, SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE]
It's absolutely bizarre to me (Marry people)
But Yankees are to me

[HARRY & CONTESSA]
I think he's caught in the middle of (Let them if they want to)
Life's common riddle of (Why not?)
How can you do what you (Why not?)

[HARRY & BOYLE]
Know you're not supposed to (Please, please)

[BOYLE]
Don't think I'm forsaking you
I'm truly aching to
Do what you ask but I
Fear I'm not allowed

[EDWARD]
Never mind

[ELAINE]
I could cry

[CHARLES]
You've been kind

[BEBE]
So could I

[HARRY]
No, don't go
One voice has not been heard

Tell me, how does it strike you
A well-born Londoner like you
When someone's not afraid to be
What he was made to be

[Part II: Anyone Who Loves]

[CYNTHIA]
Anyone who loves
People anywhere
Anyone who loves
They deserve a prayer
We're only living by the hour
While the sages with the power
Play their game of peace and war
With no shred of pity for
Anyone who lives
Anyone who loves

[HARRY]
Couldn't they be blessed?

[SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE]
Yeah, why couldn't they?

[HARRY]
Just a word or two
Maybe you could say

[SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE]
Just a word or two?

[HARRY]
We're here surrounded by the night
While God plays idiot's delight
Why can't there be a ray of sun
That shines on anyone
Who loves?
There ought to be a ray of sun
That shines on anyone
Who loves