2016 Broadway revival Falsettos the Musical - A Day in Falsettoland Lyrics
“A Day in Falsettoland” is a song performed by the Company from the musical FALSETTOS and is written by William Finn and James Lapine.
WHIZZER: (speaking) A Day In Falsettoland, Dr. Mendel At Work.
CAROLINE: You go out on the streets, And there are all these people asking for a handout! You go home, you open up your mail, And it's full of people asking for a donation! And you turn on the TV And they want money for starving children in Ethiopia! I just want to be left alone!
MENDEL: (overlapping) (singing) I don't get it! I don't understand! In the 60s, everyone had heart. In the 60s, we were all a part of the same team. In the 60s, we had a new world to start! Could this- oh God, don't say this- Could this be the new world we started' Here I sit, brokenhearted and-
CAROLINE: (speaking) Do I wait for the promotion, Or do I take this IBM job'
MENDEL: Yeah, well, Caroline' Hmm. (singing) I don't get it! I've been left behind, Half my patients, yuppie pagans Modeled on the Ronald Reagans! Now the world is too pathetic, And I don't get it at all!
CAROLINE: (speaking) Oh, I'm in a deep quandary about my career. What do you think I should do'
MENDEL: Time's up.
CAROLINE: Awww.
MENDEL: (singing) At least there's Trina at home, Trina in bed, Trina obsessing and sort of caressing My head with her feet. I once thought it was sweet, But I don't anymore. Now I just snore,
Cause I'm so exhausted, Listening as those yuppie farts complain, Listening as their shallow hearts explain Their lives.
CHARLOTTE: (speaking) Trina Works It Out.
TRINA: (singing) Marvin's back with Whizzer, Just like how it was. If I don't like Whizzer, It's because my ex sure does.
Why should that affect me' Sometimes I'm a lout. Mendel serenades and Jason calms me. Why should I be wilting When their precious love is not in doubt' Work it out!
JASON: The Neighbors Relax!
CORDELIA: How was your day at the hospital'
CHARLOTTE: Unbelieveable! What is that smell'
CORDELIA: Nouvelle bar mitzvah cuisine! I've been practicing cuisine bar mitzvah nouvelle. Well'
MENDEL: (speaking) Hi, honey.
TRINA: Hi, honey.
MENDEL: (singing) How was your day'
TRINA: It was terrible. Did you hear that Marvin's back with Whizzer' Marvin's back with Whizzer!
MENDEL: Drop it, sweetheart. Give it up, you know I love you. Honey, sweetheart, what's the matter' I don't get it. Why don't you let go'
TRINA: After the first mile, I'll be OK. I cannot let go until we have this bar mitzvah.
MENDEL: Isn't it enough I want you every night'
TRINA: Heh.
MENDEL: Every other night'
TRINA: Hehehehehe.
MENDEL: Every third night' Everything will be alright.
TRINA: Everything will be alright.
MENDEL & TRINA: Everything will be alright.
CORDELIA: How was your day at the hospital'
CHARLOTTE: It was wonderful. For the first time in months, nobody died. There were just heart attacks and gallstones, Light bulbs up the ass, Fake appendicitis, which is gas, Which I diagnosed. People overdosed And I saved them.
I save the young people, old people, One priest and one high school principal! Saving lives, I feel invincible! Yes, I do!
Do you know how great my life is' Do you know how great my life is, Saving lives and loving you'
CORDELIA: You save lives and I save chicken fat, I can't fucking deal with that!
CHARLOTTE: Do you know how great my life is'
CORDELIA: Yes, I know how great your life is.
CHARLOTTE: Do you know how great my life is'
CORDELIA: Yes, I know how great your life is.
CHARLOTTE: Do you know how great my life is,
CORDELIA: Yes, I know how great-
MENDEL & TRINA: (overlapping) Everything will be alright. Everything will be alright. Everything will be alright.
CHARLOTTE: Saving lives
CHARLOTTE & CORDELIA: And loving you.
(Marvin and Whizzer are playing racquetball)
WHIZZER: It bounced twice.
MARVIN: No, it didn't.
WHIZZER: Once, then twice. You know it did.
MARVIN: That's not nice.
WHIZZER: No, it isn't, but you're a pain in the ass!
MARVIN: You're a beast, but at least When you play me, you win.
WHIZZER: You give up.
MARVIN: I perspire.
WHIZZER: Where's the heat' Where's the fire' It used to be you'd desire a fight, so fight!
MARVIN: So play!
WHIZZER: One two three four!
MARVIN: One two three four!
WHIZZER: One two three four!
MARVIN: One two three four!
WHIZZER: Lucky dink.
MARVIN: I'm finessing.
WHIZZER: Something stinks in how you play.
MARVIN: Don't you think it's a blessing I'm so pathetically bad'
WHIZZER: Just stay back, sir, with force. I'll attack and, of course, I will win! Just give in to bliss and kiss!
MARVIN: Let's go! Do you know all I want is you' Anything you do is alright! Yes, it's alright! Do you know all I want
WHIZZER: (speaking) (overlapping) Down the alley! High long! Low jump! Oooh! Ceiling shot! Into the court! Four walls! Dink!
MARVIN: Is you'
WHIZZER: It hit your shoe.
MARVIN: No, it didn't!
WHIZZER: Yes, it did. The game is through.
MARVIN: That's not nice.
WHIZZER: No, it isn't.
MARVIN: God, you're a pain in the ass!
WHIZZER: Play it raw, don't play pretty. Sex and games in New York City Have got to be played with flair And passion, and passion and flair!
CHARLOTTE & CORDELIA: Do you know how great my life is' Do you know how great my life is, Saving lives and loving you'
MARVIN & WHIZZER: (overlapping) Do you know all I want is you' Anything you do is alright! Yes, it's alright!
MENDEL & TRINA: (overlapping) Everything will be alright! Everything will be alright!
ALL: Everything will, everything will, Everything will, everything will be alright! Alright!
JASON: (speaking) Soup's on!
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Falsettos the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Four Jews in a Room Bitching A Tight Knit Family Love is Blind Thrill of First Love Marvin at the Psychiatrist (A Three-Part Mini-Opera) Everyone Tells Jason to See a Psychiatrist This Had Better Come to an End I'm Breaking Down A Marriage Proposal Trina's Song March of the Falsettos The Chess Game Making a Home The Games I Play Marvin Goes Crazy I Never Wanted to Love You Father to Son Welcome to Falsettoland The Year of the Child Miracle of Judaism The Baseball Game A Day in Falsettoland The Fight / Everyone Hates His Parents What More Can I Say Something Bad Is Happening Holding to the Ground Days Like This Unlikely Lovers Another Miracle of Judaism You Gotta Die Sometime Jason's Bar Mitzvah What Would I Do?
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