The Great Gatsby - The Met Lyrics

2024 Broadway
The Great Gatsby the Musical - The Met Lyrics

The song is written by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen. Performed by Noah J Ricketts.

NICK:
Okay Nick, you’re now inside
A secret small apartment
Up in sugar hill

CATHERINE: (spoken)
My sister Myrtle said you were a 10.
You’re a 4.

NICK:
When Tom and Myrtle got here
They went straight into the bedroom
And they’re in there still

CATHERINE: (spoken)
These are the McKees.
They like to watch.

NICK:
So I’m stuck making small talk
While they (Mouthing it)  
“Fuck” a few feet away
Smiling at strangers
Who all look at me
Like I’m their prey
I close my eyes
But all I see’s the glowing face of daisy fay

MRS. MCKEE: (spoken)
Mr. McKee has taken two-HUNDRED-and-twenty-SEVEN photographs of me.

MR. MCKEE:
228!

NICK:
I never should have come here
As my palms begin to sweat
I need a dose of culture,
And I need a cigarette
Oh they really should have dropped me at the met

(spoken)
I’m not drinking.

TOM: (spoken)
I’m not drinking alone.

MRS. MCKEE: (spoken)
Love the dress! Love.

MYRTLE: (spoken)
This crazy old thing?
I just slip it on when I don’t care what I look like.

CATHERINE: (spoken)
The tag’s still on it.

NICK:
I said just one drink but if I lowball it
I’m guessing this is number three

TOM: (spoken)
The bedroom’s free
If you wanna shake the sheets with Catherine.

NICK:
All that I can think
Of is the ill-considered favor
Gatsby asked of me

CATHERINE: (spoken)
In the bedroom lighting, I’m an 8.

NICK:
When I got here I should have said
I wouldn’t be staying long
Everyone is flirting now
And they’re all coming on too strong
At least the midwest blessed me
With a stellar sense of right and wrong

MR. MCKEE: (spoken)
Mrs. McKee and I have an open relationship.
She has sex with other people and I’m open to it!

NICK:
I need a cup of coffee!
As the sun begins to set
They sing "Ain't we got fun”
So loud it's sounding like a threat
Oh they really should have dropped me at the met

CATHERINE: (spoken)
Jay Gatsby, the millionaire?
On Long Island? He’s a 5.

NICK: (spoken)
But would you go to tea with him?  

CATHERINE: (spoken)
No. But only because tea makes me vomit.

MR. MCKEE: (spoken)
I’d love to do more work on Long Island if I could gain entry.

NICK:
People disappear and reappear
And then they lose each other in the fray

TOM: (spoken)
Do you like polo ponies?

MYRTLE: (spoken)
Tom!

NICK:
They search for each other
And are reunited
Only a few feet away

MYRTLE: (spoken)
That’s my sister!

TOM: (spoken)
Relax, Myrtle.

NICK:
There’s a flash
And I crash over the oversized furniture
I look around for catherine
And I find that I’m on top of her
And all of this is captured
By the greedy-eyed photographer

MR. MCKEE: (spoken)
I want to capture your musk.

NICK:
Who stalks me like a vulture
Here’s a night I’ll soon regret
She’s got another bottle
So this isn’t over yet
Oh they really should have dropped me at the met

MYRTLE: (spoken)
Don’t you treat me that way!  
Don’t you flirt with my sister!

TOM: (spoken)
Cool it, Myrtle.

MYRTLE: (spoken)
Would you do that to Daisy? Huh?  

TOM: (spoken)
You don’t mention Daisy.  

MYRTLE: (spoken)
Why not?!
You take shots at George every chance you get!
But Daisy is off-limits?!

TOM: (spoken)
I’m warning you, Myrtle -

MYRTLE: (spoken)
Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!
I’ll say it whenever I want! Daisy! Dai--

MYRTLE: (spoken)
You broke my nose!
You broke my nose!  

CATHERINE: (spoken)
You broke my sister’s nose!

TOM: (spoken)
It was an accident.

CATHERINE: (spoken)
Don’t touch her!

MYRTLE: (spoken)
If you touch me I’ll call the cops.  

NICK:
If I wondered whether Tom’s an asshole
Tom’s an asshole
He removed all doubt

And Gatsby’s proposition is the only thing
My spinning mind can think about
I just sink in a sofa as the night grows more dim
God, what a coward
Should have torn the bastard limb from limb
But maybe there’s another way
That I can still get back at him?

(spoken)
Yes. Please connect me with Jay Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Roaring On
Absolute Rose
New Money
For Her
Valley of Ashes
Second-Hand Suit
For Better or Worse
The Met
Only Tea
My Green Light
Shady
Better Hold Tight
Past Is Catching Up to Me
La Dee Dah With You
Go
Made to Last
One-Way Road
God Sees Everything
For Her (Reprise)
New Money (Reprise)
Beautiful Little Fool
Finale: Roaring On