| re: super clever lyrics | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:54 pm EDT 10/09/24 | |
| In reply to: super clever lyrics - sc2 11:55 am EDT 10/08/24 | |
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| One of my very favorite lyrics is the whole of the song "She Loves Me." It's a really clever song in general. But here are a few spots I think are particularly wonderful. The verse and the refrain share an "overlapping" device, where one lyric literally feeds another. In the verse, we get: "I didn't like her! Didn't like her? I couldn't stand her Couldn't stand her? I wouldn't have her!" And later in the refrain we get: "I love her, isn't that a wonder? I wonder why I didn't want her. I want her, that's the thing that matters, And matters are improving daily." And then there's the section where Harnick delights in exploring/debunking the cliches of falling in love (and remember that we're less than 2 weeks to Christmas, and he's singing this outside): "I'm tingling such delicious tingles, I'm trembling - what the hell does that mean? I'm freezing -- that's because it's cold out." Which is followed by an inspired few lines: "But still I'm incandescent And like some adolescent I'd like to scrawl on ev'ry wall I see!" Last but not least, going all the way back to the wonderfully tongue-tied "well well well" beginning, which is followed by a phrase we not coincidentally just heard Amalia sing in "Ice Cream": "Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Well! Will wonders never cease?" I should also note that in the score, it calls for Amalia to say "Well, well, well" at the end of "Ice Cream" - which I've never heard anyone do, because the timing of that with the applause would seem too awkward. But it's interesting to see that's what the original intention was. |
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