Make the Most of Your Music

Lyrics

[BEN] How Do you come Out of numbingly humble beginnings And get to be me? How Do a few Little doodly-doodles Turn into a beautiful symphony? Can you make what is merely so-so Into something big league? Take a tip from a virtuoso (Me, Tchaikovsky and Grieg): What you do is construct yourself By the way you conduct yourself You don't have to disclose yourself— Compose yourself Find your tune Set your key Claire de lune It may never be But make the most of the music That is yours If your range Isn't great You can change It, just modulate Make the most of the music That is yours Till it soars! Compose Add to your theme till it grows Nothing extreme: Say, a note of disdain Here and there— Gives the refrain A certain flair Compose! Blend it like cream Till it flows Gathering steam With a note of success— Flaunt your talents A note of distress Though, to stress the balance— Compose! Don't lose the pace of your bass notes And when you have to erase notes Replace them with grace notes Like a note of wit To give it style A note of glitter A note of guile A note of tact A note of friction A note of fact In amongst the fiction And to counteract Any contradiction A note or two of complete conviction— [BEN & ENSEMBLE] Compose! Compose! Compose! [BEN] Luscious harp Soft high-hat— If you're sharp Then you won't fall flat Make the most of the music that is yours! Give it sweep Add a fill Give the people A great big trill Make the most of your music till It soars— Till it scores! [BEN & ENSEMBLE] Compose! Blending the highs With the lows [BEN] Just so it rises An up-tune Upbeat Long as you keep climbing! Upscale Upstreet Everything is timing! Find the blend Set the beat Keep ascending— Don't compete [BEN & ENSEMBLE] Compose! Comes the day All too soon You may just Have to trust your tune Make the most of your music And who knows? You may even get to like What you compose!