Yes, all that he said here… and also, more generally - you asked if Sondheim wrote a song expressing this feeling - but what you’ve described isn’t a feeling but rather a whole situation, if not a plot.
The feeling part only comes at the very end (“saddened but freed”) and that describes any number of songs or shows (Dot in “We Do Not Belong Together” leaps to mind somewhat for your situation, but Fredrick at the end of Night Music, Bobby at the end of Company, even some of the beats at the end of Here We Are have something of that in their DNA. |
