[STEPHEN SONDHEIM, spoken]
If you ask me to write a love song, I don't know what to write
But if you say, write me a torch song
About a girl who's just been jilted by a guy
And she comes into a bar
And she's in a red dress and she orders a grasshopper
That I can write
Because you've started to characterize and give me specifics to write about
There's a drink to write about
There's a bar to write about
There's a dress to write about
Who is the guy who jilted her?
Why did she choose that dress?