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! [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 [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!