Follies movie - LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE lyrics
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CHORUS:<br>
Here he comes.<br>
Mister Whiz.<br>
Sound the drums,<br>
Here he is.<br>
Raconteur,<br>
Bon vivant.<br>
Tell us, sir,<br>
What we want<br>
To know:<br>
The modus operandi<br>
A dandy<br>
Should use<br>
When he is feeling low.<br>
BEN:<br>
When the winds are blowing.<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Yes!<br>
BEN:<br>
That's the time to smile.<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Oh!<br>
BEN:<br>
Learn how to laugh.<br>
Learn how to love.<br>
Learn how to live.<br>
That's my style.<br>
When the rent is owing,<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Yes!<br>
BEN:<br>
What's the use of tears!<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Oh!<br>
BEN:<br>
I'd rather laugh,<br>
I'd rather love.<br>
I'd rather live<br>
In arrears.<br>
Some fellows sweat<br>
To get to be millionaires,<br>
Some have a sport<br>
They're devotees of,<br>
Some like to be the champs<br>
At saving postage stomps.<br>
Me, I like to live.<br>
Me, I like to laugh,<br>
Me, I like to love.<br>
Some like to sink<br>
And think in their easy chairs<br>
Of all the things<br>
They've risen above.<br>
Some like to be profound<br>
By reading Proust and Pound.<br>
Me. I like to live.<br>
Me. I like to laugh,<br>
Me, I like to love.<br>
Success is swell<br>
And success is sweet,<br>
But every height has a drop.<br>
The less achievement,<br>
The less defeat.<br>
What's the point of shovin'<br>
Your way to the top?<br>
Live 'n' laugh 'n' love 'n'<br>
You're never a flop.<br>
So when the walls are crumbling,<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Yes!<br>
BEN:<br>
Don't give up the ship.<br>
CHORUS:<br>
No.<br>
BEN:<br>
Learn how to laugh,<br>
Learn how to love.<br>
Learn how to live.<br>
That's my tip.<br>
When I hear the rumbling,<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Yes!<br>
BEN:<br>
Do I lose my trip!<br>
CHORUS:<br>
No!<br>
BEN:<br>
I have to laugh,<br>
I have to love.<br>
I have to live.<br>
That's my trip.<br>
ALL:<br>
When the wind is blowing,<br>
That's the time to smile.<br>
When the rent is owing,<br>
Never lose your style.<br>
BEN:<br>
Some get a boot<br>
From shooting off cablegrams<br>
Or buzzing bells<br>
To summon the staff.<br>
Some climbers get their kicks<br>
From social politics.<br>
Me, I like to live.<br>
Me. I like to love...<br>
(He momentarily forgets his lyric.)<br>
Some break their asses<br>
Passing their bar exams.<br>
Lay out their lives<br>
like lines on a graph...<br>
One day they're diplomats-<br>
Well, bully and congrats!<br>
Me, I like to live,<br>
Me, I like to love...<br>
(He goes blank again.)<br>
Me, I like-me, I love-me.<br>
I don't love me!<br>
(Ben begins to rove.)<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Success is well<br>
And success is sweet,<br>
But every height has a drop.<br>
The less achievement,<br>
The less defeat.<br>
What's the point of shovin'<br>
Your war to the top!<br>
(The company sings bits of songs heard previously. Everything<br>
we've seen and heard all evening is going on at once, as if the<br>
night's experience were being vomited. Ghosts, memories and party<br>
guests--all there. The cacophony is terrible, and we can barely hear<br>
Ben as he races from one group to another screaming into the<br>
chaos.)<br>
CHORUS:<br>
Now, if you see Lucy "X,"<br>
Youthful, truthful Lucy "X,"<br>
Let her know she's better than she suspects.<br>
Now if you see Jessie "Y," etc.<br>
BEN:<br>
Phyllis!<br>
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