Larger than Life-Musical Cast Recording

[ti:Larger than Life] [ar:Musical Cast Recording] [al:My Favorite Year] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Larger than Life - Musical Cast Recording [00:09.44]Uncle Morty used to send me to the movies [00:11.95] [00:12.64]Here's a nickel kid cheer up and go [00:16.15] [00:16.88]And though I was only seven [00:19.85]I discovered heaven [00:23.54] [00:24.22]At the R K O [00:29.03] [00:31.13]Blue lights [00:32.45] [00:33.02]Pink lights [00:34.73]Stars in the ceiling [00:36.84] [00:38.55]An organ as big as a buick [00:41.22] [00:41.86]And a screen as tall as the great wall of China [00:46.68]Red rugs gold stairs [00:50.63]Porcelain angels [00:53.91]And everything bigger and better and larger than life [01:01.65] [01:02.53]At first I was strictly a western man [01:05.97]But then one saturday afternoon [01:08.26]I saw defender of the crown [01:10.89]Warner brothers 1941 technicolor starring Alan Swann [01:16.61] [01:18.74]Daring loyal kind but courageous [01:24.81] [01:26.28]A hero as big as a buick [01:29.82]With a cape a sword and a bevy of maidens [01:34.77]He was movies me I was seven [01:40.69] [01:42.75]And gee he was bigger and better and larger than life [01:50.88]See life wasn't capes or flashing swords or parapets [01:56.12] [01:58.88]Life wasn't alan swann or Robin Hood [02:04.99] [02:06.54]Life was your father going out for cigarettes [02:11.69] [02:14.39]And deciding he was going out for good [02:19.97] [02:22.87]Here's a nickel kid cheer up and [02:26.98]Go swann is playing at the R K O [02:36.51] [03:04.44]Sure it was possible [03:06.29]If he met my mom in '34 [03:08.60]Maybe heat of link [03:09.63]Whatever is cabana at the chateau mormont [03:12.32] [03:12.85]There is every reason to believe [03:14.09]There could be the remove [03:15.83]Pass it bill [03:16.63]That the man who went out to the [03:18.37]Chesterfields wasn't my real father at all [03:21.47] [03:22.30]I wasn't some stupid kid whose father [03:24.56]Got tired or him and walked out [03:26.34] [03:27.64]I was the bastard son of Alan Swann [03:31.41] [03:34.38]Daring loyal kind but courageous [03:40.16] [03:41.76]A hero as big as I needed [03:44.74] [03:45.40]In the technicolor embrace of a maiden [03:52.26]Swann my hero and possible father [03:59.00] [04:00.54]He stood and he fought and he never ran [04:06.16] [04:07.58]Oh no [04:10.26] [04:11.53]He was bigger [04:13.57] [04:14.12]And better [04:15.58]And larger than life [04:20.12] [04:21.59]And he lived for me [04:29.41] [04:30.50]At the R K O