The Great Gatsby: A New Musical Soundtrack Album Lyrics

[NICK CARRAWAY]
I left my home in Minnesota
To escape a kind of restlessness
I couldn't shake after the war
And when I stepped off of the train at Pennsylvania Station
I felt that restlessness even more
All of New York City wanted what was coming next
Everyone was lookin' for what I was lookin' for

[ENSEMBLE]
Tonight let's misbehave
And take what happens to the grave
No matter what you crave
The city's reignited
The Great War has been won
The bacchanalia has begun
Manhattan's come undone
And everyone's invited
Where's the party and can you take me there?
And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?
We live for today, we pay off the cops
And today is never over if the party never stops
Where's the party and can you take me there?
And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?
We live for today, we pay off the cops
And when you think the party stops
The party's roaring on!
The party's roaring on!
And we'll beat on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
[NICK, spoken]
The practical thing was to find rooms in Manhattan. Turns out
Manhattan is expensive. So when I heard of a cottage on the grounds of a Long Island mansion for 80 bucks a month, I jumped on it!

[LOW ENSEMBLE MEMBER #1, sung]
A rumor's goin' round
About a mansion on the Sound

[HIGH ENSEMBLE MEMBER #1 & LOW ENSEMBLE MEMBER #1]
The city's found another John Jacob Astor

[HIGH ENSEMBLE MEMBER #2]
He opens up his place
Then disappears without a trace

[HIGH ENSEMBLE]
His parties set the pace
And he takes it faster

[ENSEMBLE]
Where's the party and can you take me there?
And when the party's over, can you find another party somewhere?
We live for today, we pay off the cops
And when you think the party stops
The party's roaring on!
The party's roaring on!
And we'll beat on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
[NICK]
One evening I went down to the shoreline
Here is what I'll never forget
There was my neighbor
Standing in silhouette
He was reaching 'cross the water
His arm stretched to the sky
And then he was gone
And I was left to wonder why
I turned back to my cottage
What was he reaching for?
Then a letter from my neighbor
Fell to the floor

[NICK, spoken]
"The honor would be entirely mine if you would attend my next little party
Yours
Jay Gatsby"

[NICK, sung]
The very first time I saw Gatsby's name
If only I knew then that I would never be the same

[ENSEMBLE]
Where's the party and can you take me there?

[NICK]
He hypnotized the city

[ENSEMBLE]
Yeah, take me there

[NICK]
We were drawn to him like moths to a flame
Was there some other way

[ENSEMBLE]
Some other way

[NICK]
This all could have gone?

[ENSEMBLE]
This all could've gone

[NICK]
Before he crossed the Rubicon

[ENSEMBLE]
Woo!

[ENSEMBLE]
The party's roaring on

[NICK]
He had the world at his feet

[ENSEMBLE]
The party's roaring on

[NICK]
Oh, he made the summer beat on and on and on

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, we beat on and on and on and on and on and on

[NICK]
The party's roaring on

[ENSEMBLE]
The party's roaring on

[NICK]
The party's roaring on

[ENSEMBLE]
The party's roaring on
And we'll beat on and on and on and on

[NICK]
And on

[ENSEMBLE]
And on

[NICK]
And on

[ENSEMBLE]
And on
And on

[NICK]
And on

[NICK & ENSEMBLE]
And on

[DAISY BUCHANAN]
You remind me of a rose
An absolute rose
Or better yet
A bud preparing to bloom
This summer you will soak up the city
The sunlight the sea
Who knows what this new adventure will be
When you open
Open
Open up anew
You'll be an absolute rose
Once I cultivate you

[DAISY, spoken]
Jordan, meet my cousin, Nick Carraway. Jordan is an amateur golfer

[JORDAN BAKER, spoken]
And a confirmed bachelor

[DAISY, sung]
You know what's grand about a rose

[JORDAN, spoken]
Who are you calling a rose?

[DAISY, sung]
Is sometimes they look best
When they are arrangеd

[JORDAN, spoken]
Here we go

[DAISY, sung]
You should see thе trophies
That hang on her walls

[JORDAN]
So you know I always had a thing
For swinging at little white balls

[DAISY]
I should fling you togеther
Find a boat, push you right out to sea
Or maybe lock you in a room
And see what happens to bloom

[JORDAN, spoken]
Fun though this is, I'm going out tonight

[TOM BUCHANAN, spoken]
Oh, women run around too much these days to suit me. Nick doesn't want a wife who traipses from golf tournaments to parties

[JORDAN, spoken]
Better than a husband who travels with a pack of polo ponies

[TOM, spoken]
A man needs a wife who's more of a delicate flower

[DAISY, sung]
If I'm a rosе
I'm a rose under glass
Frozen at its pinnacle
More cynical by the day
I've been everywhere
Seen everything
Done everything
God, I've made it
I'm so sophisticated
But look at you
You are back from the war
Brave and victorious

[NICK]
Victorious!

[DAISY, NICK]
With glorious days ahead
Glorious days ahead
You're writing books
I'm selling bonds
You're selling bonds
Daisy, I hate it
No, you've made it
I swear, this all was fated
Dance with me, Nick

[DAISY, spoken]
You altogether missed dancing with me at my wedding

[TOM, spoken]
Why weren't you at our wedding?

[NICK, spoken]
I wasn't back from the war

[TOM, spoken]
Ah, everyone's favorite excuse

[DAISY, sung]
When you open
Open
Open up, you'll see
You'll be an absolute rose
Like I used to be

[JORDAN]
When your money makes you money
What's the well-to-do to do?
But buy another pony
With the interest they accrue?
While right across the bay
They're making fortunes on the go
Over there, the rich are "riche"
And the money is nouveau
Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching
For the scepter of the kings
And some are high above us
You've got Gatsby pullin' strings
Faster and faster, no slowin 'em down
Lucky, boy you got the hottest ticket in town
A whole new ruling party
And your neighbor wears the crown

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Young, rich and wild
Reveled, reviled
You can't stop that
[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Watch it as it goes

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Watch it as it go, go, goes

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Bah dat bap bap bah!
In West Egg there's no nest egg

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, o-oh!

[JORDAN]
No need to sit and brood

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh!

[JORDAN]
On piles of cash they spend their stash at

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh, o-oh!

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
Shocking magnitude

[JORDAN]
The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!

[JORDAN]
A level of luxury that's hard to achieve

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!

[JORDAN]
I don't wanna live here
But I never wanna leave
Oh-oh-oh!

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Everything top shelf

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Can only top itself

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new, new money

[JORDAN]
Bah dat bap bap bap bah-yah!

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
New money!

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
High roller, comin' through!

[GANGSTERS]
Ooh, ooh, ooh oo-oh!

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM]
When it's scanty

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM]
Up the ante
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll!

[GANGSTERS]
Tonight I'm on a roll
New money

[JORDAN, spoken]
Wolfsheim!

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
Hey, kitten! Wanna blow on my dice?

[JORDAN, spoken]
Are you kidding? I wanna throw 'em!

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Lucky 7s!

[WOLFSHEIM, ENSEMBLE]
New manna

[WOLFSHEIM]
From the heavens

[JORDAN & WOLFSHEIM]
Ooh, ooh
Butter me, honey
Tonight I'm on a roll!

[GANGSTERS]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
Haha! Who's the schoolteacher?

[GANGSTERS]
New manna

[JORDAN, spoken]
This is Nick Carraway

[GANGSTERS]
New money

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
I see you lookin' at my cuff buttons

[GANGSTERS]
New manna

[WOLFSHEIM, spoken]
Finest specimens of human molars

[GANGSTERS]
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

[NICK, spoken]
Who was that?

[JORDAN, spoken]
That's Meyer Wolfsheim. He fixed the World Series. You can meet anyone at these parties

[NICK]
So where do we find Gatsby?
Can you point him out to me?

[JORDAN]
I've never even met him
The man's a

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
Mystery

[JORDAN]
Every night it seems his notoriety grows
I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws?
I think that it's dandy that he keeps a brandy handy
But his modus operandi?
No one really knows

[PARTYGOER #1]
Well, I heard Gatsby owns the patent for the Model T

[PARTYGOER #2]
I heard he's a spy

[PARTYGOER #3]
I heard he won this place in a horse race

[PARTYGOER #4]
I heard he killed a man

[PARTYGOER #5]
He's selling bathtub gin

[PARTYGOER #6]
He's Prussian royalty

[PARTYGOER #7]
Stock market?

[PARTYGOER #8]
He's flooded

[PARTYGOER #9]
Red carpet?

[PARTYGOER #10]
Star-studded

[PARTYGOER #11]
Black market?

[PARTYGOER #12]
Cold-blooded

[HIGH ENSEMBLE]
Do you wanna dance?

[ENSEMBLE]
Woo! Woo!
My baby only wants new money!

[NICK, spoken]
Do you really believe that about Mr. Gatsby?

[JORDAN, spoken]
What!?

[ENSEMBLE]
The kind that washes so clean

[NICK, spoken]
That he killed a man? I mean, wouldn't he be in jail?

[ENSEMBLE]
My baby has a taste for new money!

[JORDAN, spoken]
Not if he didn't get caught!

[ENSEMBLE]
She likes her legal slender, tender, and mean

[NICK, spoken]
Well, what kind-

[JORDAN, spoken]
Jeez!

[NICK, spoken]
What kind of a person throws large parties he doesn't attend?

[JORDAN, spoken]
A person who likes large parties. I like large parties, they're so intimate. At small parties, there isn't any privacy

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!
Oh, oh, oh o-oh!
New money!

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it

[JORDAN]
Heaven knows if it'll last

[ENSEMBLE]
New money

[JORDAN]
Boats against the current

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new money

[JORDAN]
Push against the tide

[ENSEMBLE]
New, new, new money

[JORDAN]
We ride, we ride, we ride

[ENSEMBLE]
New money
Young, rich, and wild
Reveled, reviled
Don't you want that new money
Filling your pockets
Spend it while you got it
Heaven knows if it'll last

[JORDAN]
I want that new money, crisp money
Straight from the mint money
Fresh money, young money
Push against the tide
Hey, we ride, we ride
Don't want that old money, clean money
Comes-with-strings money
Cold money, funny money
Push against the tide

[JORDAN & ENSEMBLE]
We ride, we ride, we ride, we ride
Yeah

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh!

[GATSBY]
I've done it all for her
Put up each wall for her
All the plans I laid
All the options weighed
Every price I paid for her
I went to war for her
Braved foreign shore for her
Bottled up the guilt
Then I went full tilt
Rivaled Vanderbilt for her

Daisy
You fight and return
Only to learn
That you have lost her
Daisy
My waiting is through
If you bring her to me
I'll be indebted to you

I've come so far for her
The finest caviar for her
Everything I own
Every party thrown
All the nights alone for her

Daisy
She slipped through my hands
No one understands
How she has changed me
Daisy
I need one more chance
If you bring her to me
I will know at a glance

Do this good turn for me
And I can guarantee
When all is done I'll be
Forever in your debt
This time I won't let go
Help me to make it so
Try as one might, you know that
There is no forgetting her

Daisy
You fight and return
Only to learn
That you have lost her
Oh, Daisy
I need one more chance
Am I chasing a dream?
I will know at a glance

I've done it all for her
Put up each wall for her
But the status quo
Just one piece to go
Now she has to know
It's all for her

GEORGE WILSON:
Good morning dock
How's the view from up there?
Got me a hunch
Gonna be a good day
Keep those spectacles clean!
Keep those eyes wide
'Cause I've seen them green!
Gotta feeling that sometime this morning
Good things are rolling my way
See this dock?!
Little gift for the wife
A few hundred more
Soon this whole place
Will be in the review
Gonna get her out west!
Like Ohio where things will be best!
Buy a tract house
So god be on lookout
I hear my dream comin' true
There you go!
Now you know why it's time
To leave the Valley of Ashes!
Where I'm the only attraction
On the way to Manhattan!
Thick as molasses!
You're like the eyes of God!
If God needed glasses....

[MYRTLE]
When my husband George proposed to me
I couldn't help but panic
Never in my wildest fantasy
Did I marry a mechanic
But Georgie said, "We'll strike it rich, you'll see
For I am what you call an up-and-comer"
And so I gave the boy a chance, prayed he would advance
At least he's not a plumber
When I saw him walking down the aisle
He actually looked cute
I couldn't help but crack a smile
He had bought himself a suit
I let him put a ring on me, and gee
He looked so handsome in his bib and tucker
I promised him fidelity for еternity
And boy was I a sucker
It was a second-hand suit, ha
Hе had to borrow a suit for our wedding day
His dreams were all a mirage
And now I live above a garage

I met Mr. Buchanan on a train
He looked just like a lion

[TOM]
Roar

[MYRTLE]
Sittin' at the top of the food chain
I tell you, sparks were flyin'
From the minute that we met

[TOM & MYRTLE]
Kismet
We both knew that it was now or never

[MYRTLE]
On the way to the hotel, all I thought was
"Hell, you can't live forever"
It's bad enough that I was born
To live among the lowest on the ladder
I married up and never left the bottom rung
But now it doesn't matter
You make a vow to stick through thick and thin
And then you learn the vow's a bunch of twaddle
If you hate the wreck you're in, screw the thick and thin
And look for a new motto

[ENSEMBLE]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

[MYRTLE]
Ooh!

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!

[MYRTLE]
I'm done with second-hand suits

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh-oh-oh
Ah!

[MYRTLE]
I'm done with second-hand suits on a wedding day

[ENSEMBLE]
She won't settle

[MYRTLE]
No more settling for less
I'll live a life of dressing

[MYRTLE & ENSEMBLE]
To impress

[MYRTLE]
Oh, time for life at The Ritz
Tell George I'm calling it quits
I've finally found, woo
Something that fits

[ENSEMBLE]
Doo, doo-doo
Doo-doo
Doo-doo, doo-do-do
Doo, doo-do-do
Doo-doo

[MYRTLE]
Oh, something that fits

[DAISY]
For better or worse, for rich or for poor
My husband has delivered on the rich part
But the better, I'm not sure
And then to learn my soldier has returned
It's a blessing and a curse
Is it for better or for worse?
To have and to hold, 'til death do us part
So certain that my soldier had been lost
And with him half my heart
I spoke those words to gain security
It was maybe a mistake
And the only choice to make
And so I built a home beyond my childhood dreams
I built the perfect place to stay
Locked away

For better or worse, when we came out east
I learned that it is not what feels the best
It is what will hurt the least
When I thought that I might start again
Got the thought out of my head
Had a child with him instead

I knew I had to I built a home
And make it last
And fill it up with all the reasons
Not to think about the past

We danced with those soldiers like they were ghosts
We kissed them with unspoken last goodbyes
So certain that they were gone
We mourned them and then moved on
Hoping half a heart's enough to build upon

For better or worse, my vows have been made
I'm smart enough to know
That I'd lose everything if I ever strayed
All the while my husband has his fun
And the roles are not reversed
It's for the better and the worst

[Instrumental Break]

A melody drifting across the bay
A song of a summer from long ago
A chorus that amplifies
Every last compromise

What good comes from knowing that he survived?
What good comes from knowing what he became?
To know there's an open door
Where there wasn't one before
And I wonder what he'd do
If I walked through

[NICK]
Okay, Nick you're now inside a
Secret small apartment up in Sugarhill

[CATHERINE, spoken]
My sister Myrtle said you were a ten. You're a four

[NICK]
When Tom and Myrtle got here
They went straight into the bedroom
And they're in there still

[CATHERINE, spoken]
These are the McKees. They like to watch!

[NICK]
So I'm stuck makin' small talk
While they **** a few feet away
Smilin' at strangers
Who all look at me like I'm their prey
I close my eyes but all I see
Is the glowing face of Daisy Fay

[MRS. MCKEE, spoken]
Mr. McKee has taken two hundred and twenty seven photographs of me

[MR MCKEE, spoken]
Two-twenty eight

[NICK]
I never should have come here
As my palms begin to sweat
I need a dose of culture
And I need a cigarette
Oh, they really
Should've dropped me
At The Met

[NICK, spoken]
I'm not drinkin'

[TOM, spoken]
I'm not drinkin' alone

[MRS. MCKEE, spoken]
Love the dress. Love!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
This crazy old thing? I just slip it on when I don't really care what I look like

[CATHERINE, spoken]
The tag's still on it

[NICK]
I said just one drink but if I lowball it I'm guessin'
This is number three

[TOM, spoken]
Bedroom's free if you wanna shake the sheets with Catherine

[NICK]
All that I can think of is that ill-considered favor
Gatsby asked of me

[CATHERINE, spoken]
In the bedroom lighting, I'm an eight

[NICK]
When I got here
I should've said I wouldn't be stayin' long
Everyone is flirtin' now
And they're all comin' on too strong
At least the Midwest blessed me
With a stellar sense of right and wrong

[MR MCKEE, spoken]
Mrs. McKee and I have an open relationship. She has sex with other people, and I'm open to it

[NICK]
I need a cup of coffee
As the sun begins to set
They sang "Ain't We Got Fun?" so loud
It's sounding like a threat
Oh, they really
Should've dropped me
At The Met

[CATHERINE, spoken]
Jay Gatsby? The millionaire on Long Island? He's a five

[NICK, spoken]
But would you go to tea with him?

[CATHERINE, spoken]
No, but only because tea makes me vomit

[MR. MCKEE, spoken]
I'd love to do more work on Long Island, if I could gain entry

[NICK]
People disappear and reappear
And then they lose each other in the fray

[TOM, drunk]
Do you like polo ponies?

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Tom!

[NICK]
They search for each other
And are reunited only a few feet away

[MYRTLE, spoken]
That's my sister!

[TOM, spoken]
Oh, relax, Myrtle

[NICK]
There's a flash and a crash
Over the oversized furniture
I look around for Catherine
And I find that I'm on top of her
And all of this is captured
By the greedy-eyed photographer

[MR. MCKEE, spoken]
I want to capture your musk

[NICK]
Who stalks me like a vulture
Here's a night I'll soon regret
She's got another bottle
So this isn't over yet
Oh, they really
Should've dropped me
At The Met

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Don't you treat me that way! Don't you flirt with my sister!

[TOM, spoken]
Cool it, Myrtle!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Would you do that to Daisy, huh?

[TOM, spoken]
You don't mention Daisy!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Oh, why not. You take shots at George every chance you can get, but Daisy is off limits?

[TOM, spoken]
I'm warning you. Myrtle!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Daisy, Daisy, Daisy. I'll say it whenever I want. Daisy!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
You broke my nose! You broke my nose!

[CATHERINE, spoken]
You broke my sister's nose!

[TOM, spoken]
It was an accident

[CATHERINE, spoken]
Don't touch her!

[MYRTLE, spoken]
Don't you touch me, I'll call the cops!

[NICK]
If I wondered whether Tom's an asshole
Tom's an asshole, he removed all doubt
And Gatsby's proposition is the only thing
My spinning mind can think about
I just sink in a sofa as the night grows more dim
God, what a coward
Should have torn the bastard limb from limb
But maybe there's another way
That I can still get back at him

(spoken)
Yes. Please connect me with Jay Gatsby

[GATSBY]
I have waited five years and today is the day
I have spared no expense, all that stands in my way
Is a tiny little cottage with a tiny little table
Filled with tiny finger sandwiches

(spoken)
I am not okay

(sung)
Only four hours left and there's too much to do
I don't know what to wear, what to say, how to stand when she's standing inside the foyer
Of a tiny little cottage, at a tiny little table
Filled with tiny finger sandwiches, drown me in the bay

[NICK, spoken]
Mr. Gatsby? It's 7 o'clock in the morning

[GATSBY, spoken]
Today's the day!
Have you got everything you need
In the shapе of- of tea?

[NICK, spoken]
I picked up some lеmon cakes at Finn's

[GATSBY, spoken]
At what?

[NICK, spoken]
It's a delicatessen, I hope that's okay

[GATSBY, spoken]
Yes, of course, of course, they're fine
Old sport
Paper says the rain should pass by

[NICK, spoken]
A quick summer storm. Maybe there'll be a rainbow!

[GATSBY, spoken]
This is an omen! We need to cancel the whole thing!

[NICK]
It is tea, it's only tea
No need for such commotion
Soon you'll be laughin', reminiscin', you will see
It is tea, it's only tea

[GATSBY]
I'm gonna walk into the ocean
[NICK]
You're gonna go and put your feet up
And leave it all to me

[GATSBY, spoken]
Of course, you're right. I'll just go get changed and-
Well, I didn't want to be a bother, so I picked up a few tea things
I'll bring those on by. And some shrubbery

[NICK, spoken]
And remember, it's only tea

[GATSBY]
Put the oysters on ice (Oh, oh)
Cut the lilacs and cake (Oh, oh)

[ENSEMBLE]
Shuck the oysters
Cut the cake

[GATSBY]
Bring them over at once (Oh, Oh)
This is all make or break (Oh, oh)

[ENSEMBLE]
Bring them over
Make or break

[GATSBY]
It's a

[GATSBY & ENSEMBLE]
Simple

[GATSBY]
Chance encounter at a

[GATSBY & ENSEMBLE]
Simple

[GATSBY]
Little table
Filled with

[GATSBY & ENSEMBLE]
Simple

[GATSBY]
Little sandwiches (Simple)

(spoken)
This is a mistake

[ENSEMBLE]
It's time for tea
It's time for tea

[GATSBY]
Is it pinstripe or plaid?
Is it two-piece or three?

[ENSEMBLE]
Pin or plaid, what does he need?

[GATSBY]
Is it olive or Orval or brown? (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
I want carefree and fun (Oh, oh)
But not rodeo clown (Oh, oh)
She should know that I mean business
While I'm also being casual
With teeny-tiny sandwiches

(spoken)
I should go lie down

[ENSEMBLE]
Easy-peasy, teeny-tiny
Scrummy-yummy
Sandwiches!

[GATSBY]
It is tea, it's only tea

[ENSEMBLE]
Ah-ah-ah-ah

[GATSBY]
It's not so complicated

[ENSEMBLE]
It's not too complicated at all

[GATSBY]
Soon we'll be sittin', sippin', lost in memory

[ENSEMBLE]
Lost in memory

[GATSBY]
It is tea, it's only tea
It's just been elevated

[ENSEMBLE]
And not premeditated

[GATSBY]
Oh, what a pleasant bit of serendipity

Will she see I've made my world (Ah-ah-ah)
In the image of her dreams?
The closer that I get (Ahh-ah-ah)
The farther that she seems
But there is no too much (Ah-ah-ah)
There is no too far
There is only tea (Ah-ah)
And the rewrite of the stars

[ENSEMBLE]
Rewrite the stars

[GATSBY, spoken]
How do I look?

[NICK, spoken]
Perfectly tailored

[GATSBY, spoken]
Too tailored? I told them to keep it casual!

[GATSBY, NICK, & ENSEMBLE]
It is tea, it's only tea

[NICK]
No need for ostentation (Ah-ah-ah)

[GATSBY]
A little decoration

[NICK]
Soon you'll be laughin, reminiscin', you will see

[ENSEMBLE]
It is only tea

[GATSBY & NICK]
It is tea, it is tea

[GATSBY, spoken]
I'm going home

[NICK, spoken]
It's only-, wait what was that?

[GATSBY]
Daisy isn't coming, I am going, thanks for helping
But I cannot wait all day

[NICK]
Wait!

[GATSBY]
She is late (Oh, oh)
So I'm off to go scream in a jar (Oh, oh)

[NICK, spoken]
She's not late, Gatsby, stay where you are!

[GATSBY]
In a tiny little cabin (Tea!)
Where I'm currently going manic (Tea!)
A tiny little cabin (Tea!)

[NICK, spoken]
This is not the time to panic

[GATSBY]
A tiny little cabin
In the hull of the Titanic

[NICK]
There's the car

[ENSEMBLE]
It's time for tea

[NICK, spoken]
Gatsby?

[GATSBY]
Can you see through the mist
Look out this way?
Can you see the green light
Just 'cross the bay?
Sometimes it's winking, sometimes it's warning
Blinking its message to me until morning
It's a lighthouse, it's a signal flare
Stay back, come quick, move on
Stay there
Only we know what we're going through
If I save you, will you save me too?
Can you see through the mist?
Look, 'cross the bay
Can you see the green light?
It's yours, Daisy Fay

[DAISY]
I thought you'd disappeared
Thought you were gone
Buried you in my heart, but as I moved on
I had this feeling as I was falling
The sound 'cross the bay was the sound of you calling
Like a foghorn, like a siren song
Retreat, return, be lost
Belong
Only heaven knows what I might do
If I save you, will you save me too?
[GATSBY]
Save me too

[GATSBY & DAISY]
My green light
Blinking permission, sending a code
Granting admission, follow the road
Wrong or right
My green light

[DAISY]
I thought you'd disappeared
Thought you were gone

[GATSBY]
Buried you in my heart, as I carried on

[DAISY]
Buried you in my heart, but as I moved on

[GATSBY]
As I moved on

[GATSBY & DAISY]
I had this feeling as I was falling
The sound 'cross the bay was the sound of you calling
[DAISY]
You're a lighthouse

[GATSBY]
You're a lighthouse

[GATSBY & DAISY]
You're a signal flare
There's love and danger everywhere
Only we know what we've both been through
If I save you, will you save me too?
Save me too
Save me
Save me too

[WOLFSHEIM]
Careful of the people
You decide to go deep with
There are those you get in bed with
And those that you sleep with
I'm okay with keeping secrets
I'm okay with being naughty
I approve of indiscretions
If you know how to hide a body
So go on
Be a bon vivant
Be as shady as you want
Life in the shadows can be fun
So long as the work gets done

Hey, here's a little tip, son
A little suggestion
If you don't wanna know the answer
Don't go asking the question
Save your own skin before you're in too deep
The less you know, the better you'll sleep
You can strike it rich and get off cheap

Everybody is a tiny bit shady
It's fine, it's no big deal
Everybody is a tiny bit shady
The world keeps turnin' if you grease the wheel
Promise you can have it all
Hangin' where the shadows fall
Keep your head down, son, keep stayin' in line
And everything's fine

We all need a distraction
We all need a hobby
We also need another exit
That doesn't go through the lobby
We enjoy a favorite cut of meat
But it's rarely ever all we eat
What comes on the side makes the meal complete

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
Everybody is a tiny bit shady

[WOLFSHEIM]
It's fine, it's no big deal

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
Everybody is a tiny bit shady

[WOLFSHEIM]
The world keeps turning if you grease the wheel
Promise you you've got it made (Ah)
Life is better in the shade (Ah, ah)
Keep your head down, son, keep stayin' in line (Ah-ah)
And everything's fine

Always have an alibi (Ah-ah-ah)
And never leave a trail
You can always find a guy (Ah-ah-ah)
To catch a tiger's tail (Ah)
Pick a game, pick the players

[ENSEMBLE]
Watch from the stands

[WOLFSHEIM]
And watch from the stands
Unless you're absolutely forced
To take matters into your own hands

[ENSEMBLE]
Woah-oh-oh-oh

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
So you wanna be a little bit

[WOLFSHEIM]
Shady

[ENSEMBLE]
Shady

[WOLFSHEIM]
Salut, and c'est la vie

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
So you wanna be a little bit

[WOLFSHEIM]
Shady

[ENSEMBLE]
Shady

[WOLFSHEIM]
But don't you go and throw your shade on me
I won't fly in the

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
Bed I made

[WOLFSHEIM]
And watch my best plans

[WOLFSHEIM & ENSEMBLE]
Not get laid

[WOLFSHEIM]
Time to go tell Romeo to toe the line (Ah-ah-ah)
Then everything's

[ENSEMBLE]
Fine, fine
Fine, fine, fine

[WOLFSHEIM]
F-i-i-ine

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh

[NICK]
Could it be 1917?
Have we stepped inside a time machine?

[JORDAN]
Something out of H. G. Wells
Or another one of Gatsby's spells?

[NICK]
I think I see stars aligning

[JORDAN]
Or my standards are declining

[NICK]
You're learnin' to spot what you need
When to follow and when to

[JORDAN]
Keep following

[NICK]
Oh, holding you is like clinging to a cloud

[JORDAN, spoken]
Watch it!
[NICK]
I have to hold tight or you might fly away

[JORDAN]
You know that I can't help but rise above the crowd

[NICK]
And I wouldn't want it any other way

[JORDAN]
So, you'd better hold tight or I might fly away

Never thought you were my style
Go and keep me dizzy for a while

[NICK]
Maybe it's the uniform

[JORDAN]
Woo!
Maybe it's the dress I've nevеr worn

[JORDAN & NICK]
You just might be my undoing
I admit there's somеthing brewing
What we do might be taboo
But I like that look on you
Oh, never thought I'd hold starlight in my hands
[JORDAN]
You'd better hold tight or I might fly away

[NICK]
You might fly away
You know I could never afford a second chance

[JORDAN, spoken]
That's true!

[NICK]
Better make my advance before the last dance starts to play
You better hold tight

[JORDAN]
Mm, you better hold tight

[JORDAN & NICK]
We better hold tight before this flies away
Hey!

[JORDAN]
Oh-oh-oh
Ooh, ooh

[NICK, spoken]
I kinda like that dress

[JORDAN, spoken]
Ooh, don't get used to it

[JORDAN & NICK]
Flies away

[JAY]
It was under a willow tree
Five years ago in Louisville:
I danced with Daisy in my arms
And time stood still
It was clear she had her pick of any man in uniform
She kissed me, and swore she'd never stray
But then the world got in the way
Fought a war, returned to see
Another fight in front of me
And now I must remind her of the love we left behind
Her words that night, the vow she said back then
I'll help her say again
One party left to throw
How could she say no?

We'll go back to that kiss
To that row of willow trees
All the years that wе missed
Will blow away with the breeze
Thеy say you can't relive the past
But you know what I see?
Finally the past is catchin' up to me

Some will shudder at what I've done
Or say that I have crossed a line
I tell you, every lavish night
Was by design
How to become the man her world demanded me to be
With only a nickel to my name
I bet it all to get in the game
Had a past to rectify
Made that nickel multiply
It took no time to love her
Just to be worthy of her
And though the years have passed us by
One memory survives
If she could see it too
But see it through my eyes...

We'll go back to that kiss
To that row of willow trees
All the years that we missed
Will blow away with the breeze
They say you can't relive the past
But you know what I see?
Finally the past is catchin' up to me

Daisy always saw in me a man who knew his worth
Now that man can give her everything on Earth
Money can't buy happiness, no sir
But it brings you closer, and closer, and closer...

Take her back to that kiss
To that row of willow trees
All the years that we missed
Will blow away with the breeze
They say you can't relive the past
But I know what I see
And oh, finally the past
Finally the past
Finally the past

[ENSEMBLE]
Oh, oh, oh
Ah...

[JAY]
Is catchin' up to me

[GILDA GREY]
No, no, no, they call your name, say that it ain't so
Your face is brave, but baby I hate to see you go
So, before you break your boots marchin' overseas
Come on over, soldier, break your boots in here with me
Let your lips go "La dee dah dee dah"
As my hips go "La dee dah dee doo"
A little revelry before the reveille on our last night rendezvous
I wanna "La dee dah dee dah" with you

[GILDA, ENSEMBLE, GILDA & ENSEMBLE]
Tying up your laces as you march into the war
Let my face and our embrace be what you're fighting for (What you're fighting for)
Go on and show them no more time to hunt the Hun
No boy, I'll be holding on until your work is done

Let your hips go "La dee dah dee dah" (Let your hips go "La dee dah")
As my hips go "La dee dah dee doo" (As my hips go "La dee doo")
A little revelry before the reveille on our last night rendezvous
I wanna "La dee dah dee dah" with you
I wanna "La dee dah" with you

[ENSEMBLE]
I wanna "La dee dah"
I wanna "La dee doo"
I wanna "La dee dah dee dah" with
You

[DAISY]
Breathe, I can't breathe, can't hold it together
I tried to inhale and my head starts to swim
To dance in your arms, all the while knowing
At the end of the night, I'm going home with him
(spoken)
Oh, Jay. Why didn't you marry me when you could have?

[GATSBY, spoken]
I'll marry you now

[DAISY]
Let's run away, we'll drive until morning
Carefree and recklessly into the sun

[GATSBY]
All of those years, wiped out forever
You say the word and it's as good as done

[DAISY]
If we don't go now
We might never go

[DAISY & GATSBY]
If we don't go now
We might never know
[DAISY, GATSBY]
What this could bе (What this could be)
Who we really arе (Who we really are)
Go, go get the car

[TOM, spoken]
Daisy! We're going home

[DAISY, spoken]
I'm not going home yet

[TOM, spoken]
Then we'll go to the Plaza. We'll drive in right now

[GATSBY, spoken]
Ah, brilliant idea, old sport. I can get us the royal suite

[TOM, spoken]
Don't you have to host?

[DAISY, sung]
Tom, don't be rude, a suite at the Plaza
Jay, it's your party, you can't disappear

[GATSBY]
As long as the lobster and cocktails keep coming
I swear to you no one cares if I am here
(spoken)
Ah, Nick! Jordan! We're heading into the city! We can all pile in my car!

[DAISY, spoken]
Too hot to pile in. Tom can take Nick and Jordan. Mr. Gatsby and I will follow behind

[TOM, spoken]
Fine. Have it your way

[GATSBY, sung]
We don't have to run
We're going to face him
We'll tell him it's over
And leave him behind

[GATSBY, DAISY]
We don't have to hide (You know that I love you)
He'll see that it's over (Did I say I love you?)
I love you, let's go!
Before I change my mind
If we don't go now
We might never go

[GATSBY & DAISY]
If we don't go now
We might never know

[DAISY, GATSBY]
What this could be (What this could be)
Who we really are (Who we really are)
Go (Go)

[TOM]
I suppose the latest thing
The latest thrill
Is to watch Mr. Nobody from "Nowhere-Ville"
Make love to your wife and just sit still
If that's the plan
You can count me out
That's the kind of progress
I can do without

[DAISY, spoken]
Tom, enough

[GATSBY, sung]
Oh, don't you know the latest thing
The beans to spill-

[DAISY, spoken]
Jay-

[GATSBY, sung]
Is your wife never loved you
And she never will
So don't you die upon that hill
We met and fell in love five years ago
It makes me laugh to think you didn't know

[TOM, spoken]
I didn't know Daisy then, and I'll be damned if you got within a mile of her unless you brought groceries to the back door

[GATSBY, sung]
You're the one who double-crossed her

[TOM]
All this from a cheap impostor

[GATSBY]
Sorry, but I fear you've lost her

[TOM]
He's slick and he's fast and he'll run out of gas
None of this was made to last
A quick little fling that will quietly pass
None of this was made to last

[JORDAN, spoken]
You're one to talk about flings. Nick, did Tom ever tell you why they really left Chicago? He ripped the fender off his car and the chambermaid with him broke her arm

[TOM, spoken]
Stay out of it!

[JORDAN, sung]
Even for you, that was a scandal for the ages
And how much did you pay
To stay off the social pages?

[TOM]
Every so often I might go off on a spree

[DAISY, spoken]
A spree?

[TOM, sung]
I make a fool of myself

[DAISY, spoken]
No, Tom
(sung)
You make a fool of me

[JORDAN, TOM]
You leave a trail of lies that never ends (I said stay out of it)

[NICK CARRAWAY]
We all know, so why pretend?

[TOM]
And here I thought that we were friends
I see now this is a conspiracy

[JORDAN, spoken]
Oh, go chase yourself!

[GATSBY, TOM]
Old sport, it's time to face reality
Daisy is leaving you (Is that your estimation?)
She doesn't love you (I love how all your money reeks of desperation)
Go on and tell him (You've piles of cash to buy some cheap panache and charm)
That you're through (But who bought Daisy's diamond ring and put a baby in her arms?)

[TOM]
Does Daisy know the kind of work you do?
That shank's been saving his best self for you
This dirty crook has carved out quite a niche
He's selling bootleg booze and getting filthy rich

[GATSBY, spoken]
He's lying!

[GATSBY, sung, TOM , JORDAN & NICK]
Daisy, tell him (He's slick and he's fast and he'll run out of gas
None of this was made to last)
(She decides what's made to last)
You never loved him (A parlor trick, a make-believe past
None of this was made to last) (She decides what's made to last)
Daisy, tell him (He's slick and he's fast and he'll run out of gas
None of this was made to last) (She decides what's made to last)
She never loved him (A parlor trick, a make-believe past
None of this was made to last) (She decides what's made to last)
Tell him (None of this was)
Tell him (None of this was)
Tell him (None of this was) (She decides what's made to last)

[GATSBY, spoken, TOM ]
Tell him (None of this was)

[JORDAN, spoken]
How can anyone wanna get married after seeing what all it turns into?

[NICK, spoken]
That's not what marriage is

[JORDAN, sung]
For better or worse

[NICK, spoken]
That's not what marriage is for us

[JORDAN, sung]
For rich or for poor

[NICK, spoken]
It will be different for us

[JORDAN, sung]
But don't you think that every newlywed believes their marriage will endure?
That they will somehow escape their fate
Is it every wedding's curse
First for better, then for worse

[MYRTLE WILSON]
The trains aren't runnin'
The cabs aren't comin'
But I am going to the Plaza Hotel
One mile down, and seven to go
Seven to go
He needs to know
Though I'm not showing, a baby's growing
And I am going to the Plaza Hotel
One mile down, and seven to go
Seven to go
(spoken)
Watch the road, asshole!
(sung)
Who are you callin' crazy?
I will kick his little Daisy and I'll stick it to her that he's mine
And this baby here is genuine
Once he knows, he'll kick her out the door
We'll open up a bottle, hell, we'll open two
He'll propose, I'll smile and say, "Sure!"
And presto, poof, my dreams have all come true
I will be a rich man's wife
With a rich man's baby and be set for life
A debutante, a connoisseur
Wait, what if I turn into her?
When the new shiny thing becomes
The one who wears the ring
I am guessing I'll have two good years
Before another shiny thing appears
One-way road
Is that what this is?
Have I traveled on it from a very early age?
One-way road
Where the choices are his
And it dead-ends in a cage
Tom may not be loyal, but with him I'm royalty
Do I let him break my heart and nose to gain security?
No dress, no ring
No party, no baby
Will ever set me free
The trains aren't runnin'
The cabs aren't comin'
And I'm not going to the Plaza Hotel
Turn around, go back to George
Back to George, back to home
He'll love this baby as his own
And soon we three will be a million miles away
I know that George will love me come what may
God, it's so simple that it's funny
The only choice is love or money
A one-way road
No matter what

[WILSON]
You've got the eyes of God, Doc
Tell me, what do you see?
They want me to come in
While the killer roams free
You've got the eyes of God, Doc
We know who drove away
There must be some justice
Someone has to pay
God sees everything
But he's slow on his commands
You've got the eyes of God, Doc
Who's gonna be his hands?

[GATSBY]
I've done it all for her
Put up each wall for her
Stoked and stoked the flame
Played a deadly game
I'll take any blame for her
Daisy
Where else would she go
I'll never take no
For an answer
Daisy
She was always the one
The light is still green

Soon she'll walk through my door
So, what's an hour more?
She's gone to set things straight
And I'm prepared to wait
Soon this will be done
Two lives, turned into one
We have a date with fate
So dammit, I can wait
For her

Daisy
She slipped through my hands
No one understands how she can save me
Oh, Daisy
She was always the one
The light is still green
And we've only begun

[WILSON]
God sees everything

[GATSBY]
Daisy

[WILSON]
He understands

[GATSBY]
Daisy

[WILSON]
Forgive me

[GATSBY]
Daisy

[WILSON]
Forgive me
For being his hands

[PARTYGOER #1]
Hah, I always said the end of Gatsby
Would justify the means

[PARTYGOER #2]
I heard the killer runs a filler-up shop
Out in Queens

[PARTYGOER #3]
I heard that Gatsby was done in by the mob

[PARTYGOER #4]
I heard the crime scene's nothing short of macabre

[PARTYGOER #5]
Poor fool who has to clean that pool
I'm glad it's not my job

[PARTYGOERS]
New money

[PARTYGOER #6]
Blown up and busting

[PARTYGOER #7]
Now it is rusting in the deep end

[PARTYGOERS]
New money

[PARTYGOER #8]
Look how he tricked 'em

[PARTYGOER #9]
Now he's a victim

[PARTYGOER #10]
Well, at least he made a splash

[PARTYGOERS]
New money

[PARTYGOER #11]
He didn't have a prayer

[PARTYGOERS]
New money

[PARTYGOER #12]
Buyer beware

[PARTYGOERS]
Nеw, new money


[PARTYGOER #13]
See you at the funеral

[PARTYGOERS]
New money

[DAISY]
Do you know what I did when my baby was born?
You don't, because no one was there
My baby was only an hour old
And Tom was God-knows-where...
Coming out of the ether, a head full of smoke
"It's a girl," the nurse said
And I broke, I broke...

Do you know what I did when my baby was born
And I found out that she was a "she"?
I prayed that my beautiful child would be the fool
That I could never be...

Let my girl be a fool, to whom it won't occur
Let the choices she makes in this life are never hers
Never hers, never hers...

The best thing a girl can be in this world
Is a beautiful little fool
The best thing a girl can be in this world
Is a beautiful little fool

The best thing a girl can be in this world...
Is charming and blithe
In polished repose
An absolute rose
And a fool

[NICK, spoken]
On my last night in New York, I wander down to the water's edge. I find myself clinging to my father's advice: to reserve judgement. I think about the way New York slapped me with a wild promise I mistook for meaning, and the whole summer washes over me. The quiet brutality of Daisy and Tom, Jordan and the mess we made, Wolfsheim, the Wilsons; all of us holding on to the foul dust of our dreams so tightly, we couldn't see straight
(sung)
And as I turn to look at the shoreline
Here is what I'll never forget
I still can see Gatsby
Standing in silhouette
He's staring down the darkness
His arm stretched to the sky
With infinite hope
That made him fool enough to try
That light across the water
Is always out of reach
So why do we
Why do we
Why do we
Keep reaching?
(spoken)
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter. Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And one fine morning, so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

[ENSEMBLE]
Where's the party and can you take me there?
And when the party's over can you find another party somewhere?
We live for today, we pay off the cops
And when you think the party stops
The party's roaring on
The party's roaring on
Oh, we beat on and on and on and on
And on
And on, and on
And on