Better Hold Tight Lyrics

2024 Broadway
The Great Gatsby the Musical - Better Hold Tight Lyrics


The song is written by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen.

NICK: (spoken)
Be honest,
Would you have even danced with me
If we met at an officer’s ball?

JORDAN: (spoken)
Would you have let me lead?

NICK:
I’d prefer it!
Could it be 1917?
Have we stepped inside a time machine?

JORDAN:
Something out of H. G. Wells?
Or another one of Gatsby’s spells

NICK:
I think I see stars aligning

JORDAN:
Or my standards are declining

NICK:
No- you’re learning
To spot what you need
When to follow and when to-

JORDAN:
-keep following

Oh, who’d have thought
You’d be clinging to a cloud?

NICK:
I have to hold tight
or it might fly away

JORDAN:
You know, I can’t help that
I rise above the crowd

NICK:
And I wouldn’t want it any other way!

JORDAN:
So you better hold tight
Or I might fly away

Never thought you were my style
Oh, keep me dizzy for a while

NICK:
Maybe it’s the uniform?

JORDAN:
Maybe it’s the dress I’ve never worn

BOTH:
You just might be my undoing
I do think there’s something brewing
What we do might be telling you
I rather like that look on you

Never thought
I’d hold starlight in my hand
You better hold tight (Why?)
Or I might fly away (Might fly away)

NICK:
You know,
I could never afford
A satin chain (That’s true!)
Better make my advance
Before the last dance starts to play

You better hold tight

JORDAN:
You better hold tight

BOTH:
We better hold tight
Before this flies away

Flies away



Review: The Great Gatsby the Musical Lyrics


The Great Gatsby the Musical Lyrics

Roaring On
Sophisticated
My Share of the Heavens
For Her
Valley of Ashes
For Better or Worse
Only Tea
My Green Light
Better Hold Tight
Past Is Catching Up to Me
Go
Valley of Ashes (reprise)
For Better or Worse (reprise)
For Her (reprise)
Beautiful Little Fool
Finale Roaring On