A New One---Cleverest Lyric- Page 2

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:05pm

The Witches Rap part of 'Into The Woods'

"Id be so happy I could...melt!"

The whole song "King Of Broadway" as well as "Springtime..."
from The Producers

Timeless to Me has some great and clever lyrics
and so does
the chorus of You Cant Stop The Beat

[Marquise]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:06pm

"And on Friday she's a Big King Kamaya Maya B*otch"

-- Eric Cartman

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:13pm

Brilliant lyrics like this are so rare I had to post the whole song. You know what it's from...


ONCE UPON A TIME
Has anyone ever read you a fairy tale?
And taken you to places magical?
Where homes are made of gingerbread
And skies are always blue?
Where pumpkins turn to coaches
And wishes all come true?

Has anyone ever sung you a lullaby?
You can fly above the rainclouds
Close your eyes
Let the melody carry you
Leave all your fears behind
And float across the rainbow sky
To once upon a time

I believed in miracles

I believed love would conquer all

I believed anything was possible
And I believed again the moment when
I saw you here tonight
Now once upon a time
Has never felt more right

I believed in miracles

I believed that love would conquer all
I believed anything was possible

Once upon a time

Once upon a time

That love would conquer all
Oh yeah
I believed that anything was possible
And I believed again the moment when
I saw you here tonight
Now once upon a time
Has never felt more right

[Tiny_Dancer]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:32pm

Is cleverest even a word? Shouldn't it be most clever?

[Marquise]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:36pm

The river was deep but i swam it
Janet
The future is ours so let's plan it
Janet
So please don't tell me to can it
Janet
I've one thing to say and that's
Dammit Janet I love you!

Updated On: 8/31/04 at 03:36 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 3:43pm

From "Uptown, Downtown," cut from Follies:

She sits at the Ritz
with her splits of Mumm's
And starts to pine for a stein
With her Village chums
But with a Schlitz in her mitts
Down at Fitzroy's Bar
She thinks of the Ritz. Oh!
It's so schizo!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:10pm

Thank you so much for that Sueleen. By the time I got to the part about the rainbow sky, I knew that for once there was going to be a musical that included me, a gay man, as part of its family.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:13pm

Gawd Sueleen, can we preorder tickets? Can we, oh can we? It's going to be the bestest most awesome show ever. And it's going to run for like 50 years.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:14pm

Though I've never seen her,
I've seen girls like this, so young and ripe.
You're missing Miss is not the type
To miss a misdemeanor.

City of Angels

Now nouveau riche and famous,
He could tell you what's a Grecian urn.

and

Folks lined up
Just to watch him flex.
And his perfect package packs a pair of pretty pecs.

Hercules

From one of the masters of lyrics - David Zippel

[insomniak]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:19pm

Updated On: 8/31/04 at 04:19 PM

[Nina]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:20pm

Those are beautiful lyrics, Sueleen. Wherever did you find them? I haven't heard lyrics that touching since Can You Feel The Love Tonight. Now, excuse me a moment while I gag.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:23pm

Nina, pull your head out and go to the Brooklyn site NOW! It is soooooo amazingly awesome.

[BT]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:27pm

Don't shoot me, but Brooklyn might even be better than Wicked. Wait - why choose? Maybe both Wicked and Brooklyn can take us to places magical... just maybe...

[Al Dente]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:27pm

And awesome and amazing!

[BT]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 4:31pm

absowickedlutely definishly

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 5:25pm

Some of you may not like him, but no one can even come close to denying that Sondheim is the best lyric writer musical theatre, and in many cases music in general, has ever seen.

As for the musical theatre song with the cleverest lyrics:

A LITTLE PRIEST

Non-negotiable. end of story. case closed.

Updated On: 8/31/04 at 05:25 PM

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 8/31/04 at 9:28pm

Mrs. Lovette: "How bout some actor thats compactor."
Sweeney Todd: "Yes and always arrives overdone."

More strange then clever.

"Sweeney: God thats good that is de have you lucious ever tasted smelled such oh my god what perfect more that pies such flavor god thats good."

Posted: 8/31/04 at 9:40pm

Sondheim is perfection. I agree. (Except Bounce... sorry, it didn't get along with me very well)

Another National Anthem wows me every time I listen to it. Without fail. And I've listened to it hundreds of times. And oh so relevant today. Especially:

People listen!
They may not want to hear it but they listen
Once they think it's gonna stop the game
No they may not understand all the words
All the same, they hear the music
They hear the screams

Etc. etc. God, I love it.

[dry2olives]

Posted: 9/1/04 at 1:18am

I cannot belive this thread has gone this long without one mention of LORENZ HART!!!!


I've been married, and married, and often I've sighed
"I'm never a bridesmaid, I'm always a bride"
I never divorced them, I hadn't the heart
Yet remember these sweet words, "`till death do us part"

I married many men, a ton of them
And yet I was untrue to none of them
Because I bumped off every one of them
To keep my love alive

Sir Paul was frail, he looked a wreck to me
At night he was a horse's neck to me
So I performed an appendectomy
To keep my love alive

Sir Thomas had insomnia, he couldn't sleep at night
I bought a little arsenic, he's sleeping now all right

Sir Philip played the harp, I cussed the thing
I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing
And now he plays where harps are just the thing
To keep my love alive

I thought Sir George had possibilities
But his flirtations made me ill at ease
And when I'm ill at ease, I kill at ease
To keep my love alive

Sir Charles came from a sanitorium
And yelled for drinks in my emporium
I mixed one drink, he's in memorium
To keep my love alive

Sir Francis was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why
I tossed him off my balcony, to see if he, could fly

Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide,
He killed his dad and that was patricide
One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side
To keep my love alive

Not to mention...

The broken dates,
The endless waits
The lovely loving and the hateful hates
The conversation with the flying plates
I wish I were in love again