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Overture
02:54
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2. |
The City of Lights
01:56
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THE CITY OF LIGHTS
Look at night upon the city of lights
Everything’s so lovely in the city at night
So drink up your absinthe
and sleep in the Luxemburg Gardens
Gay Paris is the City of Lights (the city of lights) - echo
everything we do is such a delight
Thank you Edison
and in the summer there’s flowers
and We can drink for hours
and smell the virgin bowers all night long
Look at night upon the city of lights
People are so busy on the streets here at night
There taking carriage rides
and Little Eisenhour
Wish that we had a tower
and we could drink for hours
Wish that we had a tower
And we could dance for hours
all night long
all night long
all night.
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3. |
Precision!
03:45
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PRECISION! (Uncle Molle Rat's Song)
How does the bricklayer lay the right amount of bricks?
How does he know the precise amount to mix?
When the Conciergerie’s* off, how does it get fixed?
With precision
With precision
How does the vintner make the perfect bordeaux?
What helps the gardener make his lovely flowers grow?
Who was the best friend of Michelangelo?
It’s precision
precision
But just to know the ways and wheres and how and whys that something works isn’t all you need
For we must delve into the issues very essence if one wants to succeed!
What makes the door fit exactly in the jam?
How does the scholar excel at his exam?
What makes the tiny baby fit into her pram?
It’s precision
it’s precision
How did the architect design the Palace of Versailles?
How did Moses reach Mt. Sinai
What made de Lome's airship sail across the sky?
But just know the ways and wheres and how and whys that something works just isn’t all you need
For we must delve into the issues very essence if one wants to succeed
How does the harpist pluck upon his lyre?
What makes the lonely crank turn the eager gear?
How does a train from Prague get all the way to here?
How does the draughtsman locate the midpoint?
How does the carpenter make a dove tail joint?
And how do our monarch’s never fail to disappoint?
With precision
With precision
*The oldest clock tower in Paris
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4. |
Touch The Stars
03:38
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TOUCH THE STARS
The clouds are wrapped in the moonlight tonight
like a mother protecting her child
But if I gently unclasp these fingers so white
Perhaps I could see in your heart…
I’m gonna touch the stars
I’m gonna make it happen
Someday in my memoirs you’ll quote me that I wrote
“I’m gonna make it happen”
They think that I’m a fool
I can hear them laughing
but one day wait and see
They’ll be toasting me
We’ll be deafened by the clappin'
I’m gonna study hard
No you won’t catch me slacken'
I’ll start a new career become an engineer
So boy you best get cracking!
Cause right now we’re so poor, we’ve not a can to crap in
But if I may confess someday I’ll see you dressed
in fine chiffon and satin
And you can bet on my love
You can bet on my love
like a gift from above you just wait and see
you can bet on my love
you can bet on my love
please don’t let on my love
you’ve lost faith in me.
cause you can bet on my love
you can bet on my love
please don’t wet on my love
Soak yourself in my dreams
We’ll sail away to mars
and I’m not table tapping
The universal laws have no apparent flaws
we're gonna touch the stars
we’re gonna touch the stars
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5. |
The Contest
00:43
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THE CONTEST
It says in Le Petit Journal that there’s a contest
They need a new suggestion for the world’s fair!
A monument to be seen for miles
Some kind of statue that climbs the air
Eiffel you can use your imagination
your cunning skills of math and geometry
You already proved you have the know-how
when you helped out Frédéric Bartholi
My dear wife won’t you please fetch me some paper
Grab my favorite pen and you shall see
it feels like more than my reputation is at stake here
Like the eyes of world are all watching me
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6. |
My Name is Eiffel
03:14
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MY NAME IS EIFFEL
Well I’m Monsieur Eiffel and this here's my wife
I’ve been building bridges now for half of my life
If you took a a viaduct and point it towards the air
It would make a grand tower for your little fair
It’d make a grand tower for your Worlds fair!
Well the name is Gustave Eiffel now don’t you forget it
If you pick my project I know you won’t regret it
Don’t want no reward don’t need no Croix de Guerre
Just let me build this tower for your little fair
let me build this tower for the world's fair
How can he be so sure - you can trust me
Though it may be haute couture - I know physics
It seems little too obscure to fit - You don't know what you're saying
You silly men don't you realize he's a genius
I would trust him with my life
Well I suppose that's something we should consider
Why must i be so tall - 300 meters!
What if it the tower fall - That won't happen
It would surely crush us all to bits!
Gentlemen I can assure that is an impossibility!
Well my name is Gustave Eiffel yeah I’ll say it again
I made Lady Liberty her skeleton
It might not look like much now but give it a chance
It’ll be the The Piece de Resistance for a-Mother France!
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7. |
You've Been Selected!
02:54
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YOU’VE TO SELECTED!
You’ve been selected to build Eiffel
You’ve been elected to erect
Though quite experimental
we’d like you to assemble
a team of your best architects - sir
a team of your best architects
We have rejected all the others
We have inspected your work
We have reservations
but mostly expectations
Our fair will be so magnifique
And your tower will be fantastique!
We’ve been selected to build
We’ve been elected to erect
Though quite experimental
they’d like us to assemble
a team of our best architects - sir
a team of your best architects
We’re gonna build a tower
we’re gonna build a tower
touch the stars reprise
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8. |
We The Undersigned...
03:11
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WE THE UNDERSIGNED
We the undersigned do hereby protest
the building of your unsightly tower
our city’s in peril and we simply won’t rest
until you stop trying to deflower our Paris
This odious column, this black smokestack,
this ghastly dream that you suggest
will be such a blight upon our city of light
we hope that you’ll do what’s best (grant this request)
for Paris
Is this a Joke?
Surely, you jest!
This is a most fruitless fight!
I don’t see how - I could to stop it right now
With the end so clearly in site.
You think that just because we’re engineers
that we have no conception of art?
If you will be patient, I will settle your fears.
And gentlemen you must know my heart
is in Paris
The neighbors are all suing and the art world’s gasp
it looks like whore just sitting on her ass
How did this Eiffel clown ever make the cut?
It’s a hideous funnel planted on its big fat butt.
You people are all scoundrels naysayers and fools
You’re reputations are tainted and marred
but to settle all bets I’ll incur any debts -
if tragedy should befall in your backyard
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9. |
Strike!
04:37
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STRIKE!
We wake up every morning drink a cup and head to town
don’t see our wives again until the sun comes down
The beer is always warm and the pot roast is ice cold
I hope I’m not still working when I’m gray and old
Walk out - we’re gonna walk out
unless we can knock out some out some kind deal
Walk out - We’re gonna walk out
unless we can talk out just the way the we feel!
Have a glass off wine and head to bed at ten
Get up in the morning and we do it all again
Don’t get us wrong sir we appreciate the work
but I'm getting sick and tired of being treated like a jerk
Strike! - We’re gonna strike cause we don’t abide with anything you say
Strike - we’re gonna strike -cause we don’t like what you pay
You’ve all been so great and of course I appreciate the burden of your task
but the funds are all depleted and for you to plead for more is
just too much to ask. It’s just to much to ask
Higher - we’re getting higher
and think that should require a few more francs
So come on Eiffel - don’t stall or stifle
Won’t stop till I’m full so come on let’s dance!
As to the matter of just how high you climb to work There is no debate
for it doesn’t matter if you fall from three flights or five you’ll meet the same grim fate
Strike! - We’re gonna strike cause we don’t abide with anything you say
Strike - we’re gonna strike -cause we don’t like what you pay!
You men all agreed to the terms before we started but let me fix this snag
I Promise 100 francs to everyman that stays with me until we hoist the flag
until we fly our flag.
Eiffel, you got yourself a deal!
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10. |
Preposterous Heights
02:40
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LEVEL THREE
On level three things get kind of tight
we wine and dine and dance all night
so come with me, and you will see
the view at preposterous heights
First we’ll dine on escargot - that’s french for snails, in case you didn’t know
We buy them fresh, that's the best way to eat cooked snails
The waitresses appear with tankards of beer
Be sure to please tip them well
They serve crepe suzettes wearing swan bill corsets
and sporting a racy marcel
When the clock strikes at 10, they'll come round again
it is quite possible you’ll forget where you are
but you’ll have so much fun touching each other's tongues
and smoking havana cigars
Le Pétomane will sing with a blare
His world famous anus is so debonaire
it can drink red wine, so very refined
you’ll wish you brought Papa and Mère
La la la la la la
so come with me, and you will see
Such mystical marvelous sites
the view at preposterous heights
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11. |
Bridgette's Proposition
02:24
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Well my name is Bridgette and although we’ve never meant,
I felt compelled to write to you these words
I keep thinking about you, but I don’t know what to do
And this proposal may seem quite absurd
If you’re wondering about me, I’m not a bit ugly
I love to smell fresh air and sweet perfume
I’m slender, fare of face and I like to wear black lace
and fantasize about your secret room
So if you dare to meet me, please say that you'll agree
I’ll be wearing a pink gardenia flower
Thitherward in gloam ‘neath the Trocadero dome
I pray you’ll put thee under your power.
I’d love to feel your great majestic tower
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12. |
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UNDER THE TOWER
I’ll meet you under the tower
and we’ll go straight from there
Everyone’s out of town so we have nothing to fear
We’ll take the stairs. We’ll take our time
the cold fresh air feels sublime
instrumental of the first part
look over there that’s the Cathedral of Charte
and Paris square has so much great art
I don’t understand why has he not kissed me?
This handsome man I long for is haunting my dreams
maybe it’s / It can’t be wrong to want someone
I don’t believe he’s having fun
MY MIND HAS CHANGED
My dear I must confess this feels so strange
but the clouds have cleared up my mind has changed
so I fear I must bid you a sweet adieu
Don’t bother calling me next time that you pass thru.
OH BRIDGETTE
What do you think your doing
Get down now from that step!
The fate that you’re pursuing will fill me regret
There’s plenty of fish in the seine
This doesn’t have to be the end
Just think of this as in between
you can love again!
Oh Brigette it’s time live for today
don’t get upset
Sometimes things just happen this way
Oh Brigette think all the good things you’ve
found
It’s our secret and such long long way down
I FELL FOR YOU
Perhaps there could have have been another way
I know I lived the life of a fool
but I guess that’s the price you pay
When you decide to break the cardinal rule g7
So go back to your family
go back to and start your life anew
I know I could have any man
but my love I fell for you
Eiffel
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13. |
I Faced the Storm
02:24
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I FACED THE STORM
I faced the storm as bravely as I could
and made the best of every situation
No matter what the cost
we endured the frost
and I ensured the word I gave was good
In every gentleman’s life there comes a time
when he must decide to fly or fumble
though some will spit and scorn
and curse the day you’re born
and even implicate that I’d begrime
My beautiful home
our sweet mother France
our city of light
But just look at them now that it’s all done
Every king and duke wants to shake my hand
They wanted to castrate me
but now they think it’s great see
I guess it prove I’m no mad man.
So let us drink a toast to history
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14. |
The Iron King
02:50
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THE IRON KING
Eiffel the iron king
Eiffel the iron king
He never messes up
He always gets it done
He makes a lot of money and he has a little fun
Eiffel the iron king
And Magritte will wear his ring
He draws a simple plan
and gives it to his men
they elaborate upon it then they sell it back to him
That’s right!
he’s Eiffel
He’ll fill the sky full of wondrous things
So get an eyeful!
Early every morning he walks into his office
not a whole lot to say.
Looks outside his window sipping' on his coffee
and thinks ”How can I change the world today?”
He handles every task
with skill and style to spare you see
je ne peux pas are not words in his vocabulary
Eiffel the iron king
Eiffel the iron king
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