The Music That Makes Me Dance

I have been considering the work of Bob Merrill this afternoon. This is my favorite of his lyrics & one of the most overlooked songs from the Musical Theatre canon. It was written for the Broadway show- Funny Girl in 1964, but cut from the film version.

I add 2 & 2, the most simple addition

Then swear that the figures are lying

I'm a much better comic than mathematician

Because I'm better on stage
 Than at intermission

& as far as the man is concerned

If I've been burned

I haven't learned

I know he's around when the sky
 & the ground start in ringing

I know that he's near
 By the thunder I hear in advance

His words

His words alone are the words
 That can start my heart singing

& his is the only music that makes me dance

He'll sleep & he'll rise,
 In the light of the 2 eyes that adore him

Bore him it might,
 But he won't leave my sight for a glance

In ev'ry way, ev'ry day, I need less of myself

& need more him, more him

Because his is the only music
 That makes me dance

Beause his is the only music
 That makes me dance