Around the World

簡介

擇自"灰園"，為全劇之中音樂筆者認為最貼近歌詞的歌曲。

 

歌詞

Edie:
It's my mother's house
In my mother's name
And you can't beat mother
At mother's game
'Cuz she likes the people
Who I don't like,
And if I don't like it
It's "take a hike"
Which is mother's way
Of reminding me
When you live off mother
You can't be free
And I think that mother
Is very mean...
And this latest thing?
With this wash machine?
The one Jerry brought
Don't be too surprised
If the guy moves in
And I'm pulverized
'Cuz I'll be damned if I'm
Gonna waste my time
Washing clothes in that godamn machine!!

I feel very strongly about momentos
Memorabilia, I guess you'd call it...

"Around the World"
Is what I call
My wall of special things
"Around the World"
With rose bouquets
I dried and tied on strings
A silver mask from a masquerade
Around and 'round I twirled
You take them up
So you can twirl around the world...

Edith:
Edie! He found it! Jerry found my old song!

Edie:
It's my mother's house
With my mother's friends
And with Jerry coming it never ends
It's the same old story
As George Gould Strong
Not in twenty years did we get along!
Though I do feel bad
For the way he died
In a two-bit flea bag, a suicide
...It was mother's money,
The Bouviers'
And if mother spends it
In crazy ways
No one else "took care" of her
Only me!
She was taken care of -
Not "sex-u-ally"!
And if you infer
They were using her
I will shove you right under the godamn bed!

"Around the World"
With stones and shells
The nicest one I lost
"Around the World"
Without a boat
On just a quote from the Frost
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
A lovely crossing, all...
Around the world
The world around the attic wall...
"Around the World"
There isn't room for every special thing
"Around the World"
You choose a few
To make the music sing
A silver mask from a masquerade
Around and 'round I twirled...
You tack them up
So when you go
the world will be
The one you know...
A birdcage I plan to hang
I'll get to that someday
A birdcage for a bird
Who flew away...
Around the world

 

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