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Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
#50re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 12:36am
From Grey Gardens, "The Cake I Had"
You had two hands.
You could have modeled gloves.
Is it my fault that
Your cake fell flat?
That you're unmarried,
Bald and fat?
#51re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 12:41am
The "What's inside is just a lie"/"Culture is cosmetic" song from Passing Strange.
And some of the ones from "Keys."
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#52re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 1:30am
I got this really great gun-
SH*T, where is it?
No, it's really great-
Wait-
SH*T, where is it?
Anyway
It's just a .38-
But-
It's a gun.
You can make a statement-
Wrong-
With a gun-
Even if you fail.
It tells 'em who you are
Where you stand.
This one was on sale.
It- no not the shoe-
Well, actually the shoe was, too.
No, that's not it-
SH*T, I had it here-
Got it!
Yeah! There it is!
#53re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 5:00pm
For some reason I don't understand why the "tall enough to be your mother" line from Company is clever. Is there some innuendo that my frail mind does not yet understand??? Fill me in, please.
"Will their faces be stony
When they see on their Sony
Someone handing the phony
The Tony Award!
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#54re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 5:00pm
For some reason I don't understand why the "tall enough to be your mother" line from Company is clever. Is there some innuendo that my frail mind does not yet understand??? Fill me in, please.
"Will their faces be stony
When they see on their Sony
Someone handing the phony
The Tony Award!
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#55re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 6:13pmNormally when finding faults with a friend's current love interest, if she is older than he, you would bring up the "she's old enough to be your mother" line. However, what has made the line work for me, is that Joanne doesn't want to bring up this line because she could indeed be old enough to be Bobby's mother. So she just blurts out the first thing she can think of, which happens to be tall.
#56re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 7:10pm
idk if its been said but from ITH
Daniela: They say he has quite taxi
and basically most of Into The Woods
#57re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:21pmOhh, I get it. It probably makes more sense onstage when she's actually making the excuse: I haven't seen a live production of "Company" yet =(. There was a local production recently, but I couldn't get a ride =(.
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#58re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/20/08 at 11:39pm
Adelaide's Lament from "Guys and Dolls" ;
It says here:
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper resperatory tract.
In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold.
You can spray her wherever you figure there's streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold.
It says here:
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendancy, see note: (looks at note
Chronic organic symptoms
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat.
In other words, just from worrying if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough.
You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.
If she's getting a kind of name for herself, and the name ain't his
A person can develop a cough.
And furthur more, just from stalling, and stalling,
And stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe.
When they get on that train to Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can develop la grippe,
La grippe.
La post nasal drip.
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!
From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting to old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!
(ADELAIDE sneezes
Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness.
#59re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/21/08 at 2:43am
Haha, soon2bstar, I was playing my In the Heights cast recording one day, and my mother walked in and just happened to hear the taxi line. She likes repeating things, and she didn't hear most of it, so it went:
CR: "They say he's got quite a big-taxi!"
Mother: "TAXI!"
Me: *dies laughing*
And the lyric that always makes me smile is from [tos]'s My First Time skit,
"Hunter: We're here to talk about our first time seeing a Broadway show.
Susan: And to help spread autism.
(long pause)
Hunter: Awareness!
Susan: Awareness!"
Oh, and of course,
"But above all of his other vices, Jeff Blegman loves Glo-ooo-oo-ooo-oo-ooo-oria Lutz."
"My muffin top is all that/whole grain and low-fat/I know you want a piece of that/But I just wanna dance!"
Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#60re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/21/08 at 3:27am
From WICKED:
"Think of it as personality dialysis."
Seriously...thats comedy gold right there.
#61re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:46pm
ITH: "Bartender...lemme get an amaretto sour for this ghetto flower...how are you so pretty?" cracks me up every time and i have no idea why.
Guys and Dolls: "I may be down, but I'm not flat as all that." When I did that show last year my mom used to die laughing everytime I sang it because she found it so amusing.
RENT: "I was a boy scout once, and a brownie...until some brat got scared." All I can say to that is...Angel would. 
DRS: "I can finally afford to see a Broadway show!" and basically all of "Great Big Stuff"
And this isn't really a lyric, but I love how, in Wicked, the I'm Not That Girl reprise goes right into As Long As You're Mine, which in itself I find to be beautiful and my favorite love song.
And when the night has finally gone, and when we see the new day dawn, we wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind. The wasted world we thought we knew, the light will make it look brand new, so let it shine..."
--ntn
#62re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/22/08 at 2:22pm
Please Hello! from Pacific Overtures has some of Sondheim's most clever rhymes, particular in the Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche the British Admiral sings.
Hello, I come with letters from her majesty Victoria
Who learned how you're trading now sang "Hallelujah, Gloria!"
And sent me to convey to you her positive euphoria
As well as little gifts from Britain's various emporia!
I think, her letters do contain a few proposals to your Emperor
Which, of course, he won't endorse will put her in a temper, or
More happily, should he agree, will serve to keep her placid, or
At least till I am followed by a permanent ambassador!
Her Majesty considers the arrangements to be tentative
Until we ship a proper diplomatic representative
We don't foresee that you will be the least be argumentative
So please ignore the man-of-war we brought as a preventative.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#63re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/22/08 at 2:50pm
"Will their faces be stony
When they see on their Sony
Someone handing the phony
The Tony Award!"
To be honest this is one of the few lyrics of Sondheims that I've never liked. Ever. Never ever.
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
riverscohenosmond
Swing Joined: 8/18/08
#64re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/22/08 at 3:17pm
[title of show]
...and like Frodo and Samwise, you'll be MY BEST FRIEND!!!
-Susan and Heidi
#65re: Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!
Posted: 8/22/08 at 6:41pm
I'm not going to bother trying to select my favorite Sondheim lyric, so I'll just go with this witty one from "Always True to You (In My Fashion)".
Mister Harris, plutocrat,
Wants to give my cheek a pat,
If the Harris pat
Means a Paris hat,
Bébé, Oo-la-la!
I absolutely LOVE the Harris pat/Paris hat wordplay
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