Guidos Song

[GUIDO]

I would like to be here, I would like

To be there,

I would like to everywhere at once.

I know that's a contradiction in terms,

And it's a problem, especially when

My body's clearing forty as my mind is

Nearing ten.

I can hardly stay up, and I can't get to

Sleep,

And I don't want to wake tomorrow

Morning

At the bottom of some heap,

But why take it so seriously?

After all, there's nothing at

Stake here-only me.

I want to be young, and I want to be

Old.

I would like to be wise before my time

And yet be foolish and brash and bold.

I would like the universe to get down

On it's knees

And say, 'Guido, whatever you please,

It's okay. Even if it's impossible, we'll

Arrange it.'

That's all that I want.

I am lusting for more. Should I settle

For less?

I ask you, what's a good thing for, if

Not for taking it to excess?

One limitation I dearly regret,

There's only one of me I've ever met.

I would like to have another me to

Travel along with myself.

I would even like to be able to sing a

Duet with myself.

I would like to be here (Sing along

With myself in a song)

To be there (Walking down a lane now,

Everywhere)

Everywhere (Everywhere. That's a

Contradiction in terms. I want to)

Here (With a counter-)

Here (Melody in the)

Here (Top of the morning to you, Guido)

Guido (Guido)

Guido (Guido)

Guido (Me)

Me (Me).

I want to be Proust or the Marquis De

Sade,

I would like to be Christ, Mohammed,

Buddha

But not have to believe in God,

And you know I mean it with all of my

Heart.

It's the end if something important

Doesn't start.

I want to be young, but I have to be

Old.

What I want is a tale of sound and

Fury

That some idiot went and told.

I would like the universe to get down

On it's knees

And say, 'Guido, whatever you please,

It's okay.

Even if it's ridiculous, we'll arrange

it.'

So arrange it!

[ALL]

Arrange it!

[GUIDO]

That's all that I want!