Andrew Lloyd Webber - Love Nest lyrics

(Mid-afternoon: the main bedroom in Stephen Ward's house in Wimpole Mews. CHRISTINE lies in bed between the sheets. JACK PROFUMO is dressing.) {PROFUMO} We should get a little flat Somewhere we could call our own We deserve a hideaway Some place we can be alone I know someone I can phone Who'll start working right away He knows Knightsbridge back to front I'll get on to him today He will find a pied-à-terre In a quiet, private square A romantic secret lair To continue our aff- {CHRISTINE} Thanks, but no I'm eighteen There's a world out there That I've never seen I'm too young I can't let you lock me away Why do men Always feel They can tie you down With this mistress spiel I don't want to become A walking cliché Freedom means the world to me I'm really sorry, Jack I just have to be free {PROFUMO} You'd still be free as a bird I would never cramp your style You could go your own sweet way I'd come by once in a while {CHRISTINE} I'm sure you mean what you say I'm really sorry, Jack It never works that way (She gets out of bed, throws her arms around him and pecks him on the cheek.) Got time for a cup of tea before you go? (STEPHEN WARD steps forward to address the audience.) {WARD} And so, after a quite short relationship - exciting for him, and pretty run-of-the-mill for Christine - they parted company, with nothing to give anyone the slightest hint that the two of them had just enjoyed one of the most notorious affairs of the century