What Baking Can Do (from Waitress The Musical)

Make it work;

make it easy.

Make it clever;

craft it into pieces.

Make it sweet;

crimp the edges.

Or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges.

Even doubt can be delicious,

and it washes off of all the dirty dishes.

When it's (C)done, I can smile;

it's on someone else's plate for a while.

(Em)I'll place it (A)on display;

and then I'll slice and serve my (D)worries away.

(G)I can fix this;

I (Bm)can twist it into (Em)sugar,

butter covered pieces.

(Eb)Never mind (D)what's underneath it, I

(G)have done it before;

I'll bake me a (Em)door (D)to (Em)help me get through

(D)I (C)learned that from you.

Mama, it's (Cm)amazing what baking can (G)do.

(G)Make it up,

and surprise them.

Tell them all my secrets, but disguise them,

so they (C)dance on the tongues of the very people that they're secrets from.

Make it (Em)soon;

make it better.

Though (A7)better never lasts forever.

I'll make it (C6)small, so (D7)it fits even this,

(G)even (Csus2)now, even as the (D)walls (G)come (D7)(G)tumbling (C)down,

even as I (D)can't (G)stop (D7)(G)remembering (C)how ev'ry door we ever (D)made,

(G)we never (D7)once walked out,

(Am)something I never (Gsus)got the chance to (D7)ask her about.

(Em9)So, with flour (A7)on my hands,

I'll show them (Cmaj7)all how goddamn (D)happy I am.

(Em)Sugar, butter, flour don't let me (A7)down!

(G)Let's see the next amazing thing

baking does now.