| CLAIRE:
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| Modern man, what is it?
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| Just a collection of complexes
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| and neurotic impulses
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| that occasionally break through
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| OZZIE:
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| You mean sometimes you blow your top, like me?
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| CLAIRE:
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| I do.
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| I try hard to stay controlled
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| But I get carried away,
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| Try to act aloof and cold,
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| But I get carried away.
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| OZZIE &CLAIRE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| You/I get carried, just carried away!
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| CLAIRE:
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| When I sit and listen to a symphony
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| Why can’t I just say the music’s grand?
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| Why must I leap upon the stage hysterically?
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| They’re playing pizzicato,
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| And everything goes blotto,
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| I grab the maestro’s stick and start in leading the band!
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| OZZIE &CLAIRE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| You/I get carried, just carried away!
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| OZZIE:
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| And when I go to see a moving picture show,
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| And I’m watching actors in a scene,
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| I start to think what’s happening is really so.
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| The girl, I must protect her.
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| The villain don’t respect her.
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| I leap to her defense and knock a hole right through the screen!
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| CLAIRE &OZZIE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| You/I get carried, just carried away!
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| OZZIE:
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| I try hard to keep detached,
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| But I get carried away.
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| Try to act less booby-hatched,
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| But I get carried away.
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| CLAIRE &OZZIE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| You/I get carried, just carried away!
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| OZZIE:
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| When shopping I’m a sucker for a bargain sale.
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| If something is marked down upon a shelf,
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| My sense of what is practical begins to fail;
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| I buy one, then another,
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| Another, then another,
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| I buy the whole store out and I’m in business for myself!
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| CLAIRE &OZZIE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| You/I get carried, just carried away!
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| CLAIRE:
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| And when I go to see my friends off on a train,
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| Golly, how I hate to see them go.
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| For then my love of travelling I can’t restrain.
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| The time has come for parting,
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| The train’s already starting,
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| I hop a freight and in a flash I’m off to Buffalo!
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| We get carried, just carried a — way!
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| OZZIE:
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| Carried away, carried away,
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| We get carried, just carried a — way! |