GIGI: Yes! I lost my virginity in what I thought was a park, but it turned out to be a graveyard and now the ghost spirits live inside my eggs, waiting to be reborn. GIGI: That’s crazy! I have the exact same thing! there's sweeter music when she speaks, isn't there? / Could I be wrong? Could it be so? / Oh where, oh where did Gigi go? / Gigi! Am I a fool without a mind or have I merely been too blind to realize? / Oh Gigi! Why you've been growing up before my very eyes / Gigi! You're not at all that funny, awkward little girl, I knew / oh no! Overnight there's been a breathless change in you.AMY: I ate a legal pot brownie when Model UN went to Amsterdam but as soon as I got high I just cried about the fact that one day my mom will die. It was a shock in fact to me, / the most amazing shock to see / the way it clung / on one, so young! / She's a girl, / a little girl! / Getting older, it is true, / which is what they always do / till that unexpected hour / when they blossom like a flower! Oh, no! Oh, no! But. Ah, she's a child! / A silly child! / Adolescent to her toes / and good Heaven how it shows / Sticky thumbs are all the fingers she has got! / She's a child! / A clumsy child! / She's as swollen as a grape / and she doesn't have a shape / where her figure ought to be, / It is not! / Just a child! / A growing child / that's so backward for her years, / if a boy her age appears / I am certain he will never call again! / She's a scamp and a brat, / doesn't know where she is at, / unequipped and undesirable to men! / Of course, I must confess / that in that brand new little dress, / she looked surprisingly mature / and had a definite allure. And if it wasn't joy galore, / at least not once was she a bore, / that I recall. ![]() Gaston Lachaille: She's a babe! / Just a babe! / Still cavorting in her crib / Eating breakfast with a bib / with her baby teeth / and all her baby curls! / She's a tot! / Just a tot! / Good for bouncing on your knee! / I am positive that she / doesn't even know that boys aren't girls! / She's a snip! / Just a snip! / Making dreadful baby noise, / having fun with all her toys! / Just a chickadee who needs a mother hen! / She's a cub, a papoose! / You could never turn her loose! / She's too infantile to take her from her pen! / Of course, that weekend in Trouville, / in spite of all her youthful zeal, / she was exceedingly polite / and on the whole a sheer delight.Gigi, Gaston Lachaille: That since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight!.The night they invented champagne / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / Is fly to the sky on champagne / and shout to everyone in sight It's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me. Gaston Lachaille: The night they invented champagne.The night they invented champagne, / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / is fly to the sky on champagne / And shout to everyone in sight / that since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight! Gigi: The night they invented champagne, / it's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me.Gaston Lachaille: Let her gush and jabber, / let her be enthused! / I cannot remember / when I have been more amused!.Madame Alvarez: Gigi, you are absurd! / Now not another word! Gigi!.Gigi: Is everybody celebrated, / full of sin and dissipated? / Is it hot enough to blister? / Will I be your little sister?.Madame Alvarez: Gigi, you'll drive us wild! / Stop, you silly child!.Gigi: What time tomorrow will we get there? / Can I watch you play roulette? / May I stay up late for supper? / Is it awfully awfully upper?.Oh, what a poor defenseless pair / in those pathetic rags they wear. Here are some others to behold / for whom the bells have never tolled. These ladies stood their ground and won / and I salute them, every one. Honore Lachaille: Now for example here we find / Exhibit A, the married kind. ![]() But in Paris, those who will not marry are usually men, and those who do not marry are usually women. There are some who will not marry, and some who do not marry. Like everywhere else, most people in Paris get married, but not all. Married: what for? Now please don't misunderstand.
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