Carried Away-Betty Comden/John Reardon/Cris Alexander

[ti:Carried Away] [ar:Betty Comden] [al:On The Town - Original Cast Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Carried Away - Betty Comden/John Reardon/Cris Alexander [00:02.27]Modern man what is it [00:04.40] [00:06.66]Just a collection of complexes [00:08.73]And neurotic impulses [00:10.80] [00:11.38]That occasionally break through [00:14.38] [00:15.88]You mean sometimes you blow your top [00:17.88] [00:18.41]Like me [00:18.81] [00:20.50]I do [00:21.60] [00:26.02]I try hard to stay controlled [00:29.47]But I get carried away [00:32.15] [00:32.82]Try to act aloof and cold [00:36.29]But I get carried away [00:38.93]Carried away carried away [00:40.96]Carried away carried away [00:42.52]You I get carried just carried away [00:46.54] [00:47.31]When I sit and listen to a symphony [00:50.41]Why can't I just say the music's grand [00:52.96] [00:53.65]Why must I leap upon the stage hysterically [00:56.50] [00:57.07]They're playing pizzicato [00:58.57]And everything goes blotto [01:00.17]I grab the maestro's stick [01:01.47]And start in leading the band [01:03.34]Carried away carried away [01:04.67]Carried away carried away [01:06.31]You I get carried just carried away [01:10.17] [01:10.67]And when I go to see a moving picture show [01:13.42] [01:14.27]And I'm watching actors in a scene [01:16.79] [01:17.48]I start to think what's happening is really so [01:21.00]The girl I must protect her [01:22.62]The villain don't respect her [01:24.28]I leap to her defense and knock a [01:26.20]Hole right through the screen [01:27.47]Carried away carried away [01:28.97]Carried away Carried away [01:30.69]You I get carried just carried away [01:36.28] [01:43.15]I try hard to keep detached [01:46.47]But I get carried away [01:49.46] [01:50.02]Try to act less booby-hatched [01:53.54]But I get carried away [01:56.26]Carried away carried away [01:58.32]Carried away carried away [01:59.98]You I get carried just carried away [02:03.87] [02:04.52]When shopping I'm a sucker for a bargain sale [02:07.81]If something is marked down upon a shelf [02:10.24] [02:11.22]My sense of what is practical begins to fail; [02:14.52]I buy one then another [02:16.33]Another then another [02:17.94]I buy the whole store out [02:19.40]And I'm in business for myself [02:20.77]Carried away carried away [02:22.57]Carried away carried away [02:24.36]You I get carried just carried away [02:28.62]And when I go to see my [02:29.88]Friends off on a train [02:31.50] [02:32.28]Golly how I hate to see them go [02:34.47] [02:35.42]For then my love of travelling [02:37.25]I can't restrain [02:38.96]The time has come for parting [02:40.67]The train's already starting [02:42.26]I hop a freight and in a flash [02:44.10]I'm off to Buffalo [02:45.40]Carried away carried away [02:48.43]We get carried just carried a way