On the Town, Act I: No. 6, Carried Away (Live)

Modern man, what is it?

Just a collection of complexes and neurotic impulses

That occasionally break through

You mean sometimes you blow your top like me?

I do

I try hard to stay controlled

But I get carried away

Try to act aloof and cold

But I get carried away

Carried away

Carried away

I get carried

Just carried away

When I sit and listen to a symphony

Why can't I just say the music's grand?

Why must I leap upon the stage hysterically?

They play pizzicato and everything goes blotto

I grab the maestro's stick and start in leading the (??)

Carried away

Carried away

I get carried

Just carried away

And when I go to see a moving picture show

And I'm watching actors in a scene

I start to think what's happening is really so

The girl, I must protect her

The villain don't respect her

I leap to her defense and knock a hole right through the screen

Carried away

Carried away

We get carried

Just carried away

I try hard to keep detached

But I get carried away

Try to act less booby-hatched

But I get carried away

Carried away

Carried away

We get carried

Just carried away

When shopping I'm a sucker for a bargain sale

If something is marked down upon a shelf

My sense of what is practical begins to fail

I buy one, then another, another, then another

I buy the whole store out and I'm in business for myself

Carried away

Carried away

We get carried

Just carried away

And when I go to see my friends off on a train

Golly, how I hate to see them go

For then my love of traveling I can't restrain

The time has come for parting

The train's already starting

I hop a bridge and in a flash I'm off to Barcelona!

Carried away

Carried away

We get carried

Just carried away