So Exciting! (The Pitch Song)
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Aug. 30, 20191 viewer11.4K views
So Exciting! (The Pitch Song) Lyrics
[DUKE, spoken]
So you arranged this rendezvous in order to audition your new show for me, hoping I would invest...
[SATINE, spoken]
Nailed it in one!
[Various affirming chatter, nervous laughter]
[DUKE]
So, what's the story of your show?
[TOULOUSE-LAUTREC]
The story! Ah! Yes, uh...
[CHRISTIAN]
There'll be...
Lovers
[SATINE]
And singers
[ZIDLER]
And entrepreneurs
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Depravity!
[SANTIAGO]
Ecstasy!
[CHRISTIAN]
Love that endures...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Worthy of even the best raconteur
A tale in the shadows of dear Sacré-Coeur...
We
See
A-
-long the Seine, upon its filthy shore
The bloated corpses of those
Killed the night before!
[ZIDLER]
But it's a family show!
With art both high and low
[CHRISTIAN]
A tale of love
[SANTIAGO]
And death!
So you arranged this rendezvous in order to audition your new show for me, hoping I would invest...
[SATINE, spoken]
Nailed it in one!
[Various affirming chatter, nervous laughter]
[DUKE]
So, what's the story of your show?
[TOULOUSE-LAUTREC]
The story! Ah! Yes, uh...
[CHRISTIAN]
There'll be...
Lovers
[SATINE]
And singers
[ZIDLER]
And entrepreneurs
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Depravity!
Ecstasy!
[CHRISTIAN]
Love that endures...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Worthy of even the best raconteur
A tale in the shadows of dear Sacré-Coeur...
We
See
A-
-long the Seine, upon its filthy shore
The bloated corpses of those
Killed the night before!
[ZIDLER]
But it's a family show!
With art both high and low
[CHRISTIAN]
A tale of love
[SANTIAGO]
And death!
[SATINE]
And sex!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And money!
[ZIDLER]
Dancing, and away we go...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Sweet Satine, who plays our ingénue
A sparrow singing up and down each avenue
[SATINE]
She wears a thin, black dress, and tells her tale of woe
Of pain and loneliness
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
But that's not all, as these things go
She's rather sick, with some obscure malaise
No doubt a cruel trick from wilder, desperate days
[SATINE]
But one day singing through her pain
The sun kicks out the rain
And there he stands, a lover
And sex!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And money!
[ZIDLER]
Dancing, and away we go...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
Sweet Satine, who plays our ingénue
A sparrow singing up and down each avenue
[SATINE]
She wears a thin, black dress, and tells her tale of woe
Of pain and loneliness
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
But that's not all, as these things go
She's rather sick, with some obscure malaise
No doubt a cruel trick from wilder, desperate days
[SATINE]
But one day singing through her pain
The sun kicks out the rain
And there he stands, a lover
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC, spoken]
Yes, one day everything changes, when she meets - a man!
[CHRISTIAN, spoken]
A man unlike any she has known. He's, uh...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC, spoken]
A ventriloquist!
[SANTIAGO, spoken]
No, he's a matador! Striding across the sands of destiny!
[ZIDLER, spoken]
No, no, no, he's a sailor!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC, spoken]
Yes, a sailor! That's it! A man who has spent his life voyaging across the turbulent seas!
[CHRISTIAN]
He's been searching for a mate
And now it seems like fate
A gift from God above
[CHRISTIAN & SATINE]
A love, divine, forevermore
Their bodies intertwine...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
But fate has many other things in store...
[ZIDLER]
There's a man who already claims her
An evil gangster, who runs this town
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
She's unhappy and no one blames her
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC & SANTIAGO]
The most lascivious racketeer around
[ALL]
He buys her love
[SATINE]
He buys her clothes
[ZIDLER]
He's rough but this is all the poor girl knows!
[ALL]
He buys her love!
[CHRISTIAN]
There's no escape...
But now a triangle has taken shape
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And so, the sailor, driven mad
Determined to unseat this cad
Swears to risk his life for love
And there's our show, all of the above!
[SATINE]
A spectacle of savagery!
[SANTIAGO]
A testament to lunacy, haha!
[ZIDLER]
Fun for the whole family!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And all of it designed by me!
[ALL]
So exciting!
[ZIDLER]
The audience will stomp and cheer!
[ALL]
So delighting!
[ZIDLER]
It will run for fifty years!
[ALL]
So exciting!
Make 'em laugh and make 'em cry!
So delighting!
[CHRISTIAN]
And in the end, should someone die?
[ALL]
So exciting!
Make our dreams reality!
So delighting!
[SATINE]
Make it happen just for me!
[MEN]
Me, me, me, me
[ALL]
Make it happen just for me!
Yes, one day everything changes, when she meets - a man!
[CHRISTIAN, spoken]
A man unlike any she has known. He's, uh...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC, spoken]
A ventriloquist!
[SANTIAGO, spoken]
No, he's a matador! Striding across the sands of destiny!
[ZIDLER, spoken]
No, no, no, he's a sailor!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC, spoken]
Yes, a sailor! That's it! A man who has spent his life voyaging across the turbulent seas!
[CHRISTIAN]
He's been searching for a mate
And now it seems like fate
A gift from God above
[CHRISTIAN & SATINE]
A love, divine, forevermore
Their bodies intertwine...
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
But fate has many other things in store...
[ZIDLER]
There's a man who already claims her
An evil gangster, who runs this town
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
She's unhappy and no one blames her
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC & SANTIAGO]
The most lascivious racketeer around
[ALL]
He buys her love
[SATINE]
He buys her clothes
[ZIDLER]
He's rough but this is all the poor girl knows!
[ALL]
He buys her love!
[CHRISTIAN]
There's no escape...
But now a triangle has taken shape
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And so, the sailor, driven mad
Determined to unseat this cad
Swears to risk his life for love
And there's our show, all of the above!
[SATINE]
A spectacle of savagery!
[SANTIAGO]
A testament to lunacy, haha!
[ZIDLER]
Fun for the whole family!
[TOULOUS-LAUTREC]
And all of it designed by me!
[ALL]
So exciting!
[ZIDLER]
The audience will stomp and cheer!
[ALL]
So delighting!
[ZIDLER]
It will run for fifty years!
[ALL]
So exciting!
Make 'em laugh and make 'em cry!
So delighting!
[CHRISTIAN]
And in the end, should someone die?
[ALL]
So exciting!
Make our dreams reality!
So delighting!
[SATINE]
Make it happen just for me!
[MEN]
Me, me, me, me
[ALL]
Make it happen just for me!
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Genius Annotation
When Christian and the Bohemians are caught in Satine’s room just as the club’s valuable patron the Duke arrives, they (along with Zidler) lie on the spot that they are preparing a theatrical show. “So Exciting! (The Pitch Song)” interpolates several classic tunes, such as “La Vie en Rose” and “Infernal Galop” as the characters improvise the plot.
It is the equivalent of “Spectacular Spectacular” from the original film, though the plot details of the fictional show go from an Indian courtesan torn between a poor sitar player and a vicious maharajah to that of an ill ingenue torn between a sailor and a gangster.
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August 30, 2019
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