Carried Away

Lyrics

[CLAIRE] Modern man, what is it? Just a collection of complexes and neurotic impulses That occasionally break through [OZZIE, spoken] You mean sometimes you blow your top, like me? [CLAIRE] I do I try hard to stay controlled But I get carried away Try to act aloof and cold But I get carried away [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away You get carried, just carried away! [CLAIRE] Carried away, carried away I get carried away! [CLAIRE] When I sit and listen to a symphony Why can't I just say the music's grand? Why must I leap up on the stage hysterically? They're playing pizzicato And everything goes blotto I grab the maestro's stick and start in leading the band! [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away You get carried, just carried away! [CLAIRE] Carried away, carried away I get carried away! [OZZIE] And when I go to see a moving picture show And I'm watching actors in a scene I start to think what's happening is really so The girl, I must protect her The villain don't respect her I leap to her defense and knock a hole right through the screen! [CLAIRE] Carried away, carried away He gets carried [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away I get carried [CLAIRE & OZZIE] Just carried away! [OZZIE] I try hard to keep detached But I get carried away Try to act less booby-hatched But I get carried away [CLAIRE] Carried away, carried away He gets carried, just carried away! [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away I get carried away! [OZZIE] When shopping, I'm a sucker for a bargain sale If something is marked down upon a shelf My sense of what is practical begins to fail I buy one, then another Another, then another I buy the whole store out and I'm in business for myself! [CLAIRE] Carried away, carried away He gets carried, just carried away! [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away I get carried away! [CLAIRE] And when I go to see my friends off on a train Golly, how I hate to see them go For then my love of traveling I can't restrain The time has come for parting The train's already starting I hop a freight and in a flash I'm off to Buffalo! [OZZIE] Carried away, carried away [CLAIRE & OZZIE] We get carried, just carried away!