{"id":1824,"date":"2013-06-02T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2014-01-14T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:58:22","slug":"groundhog-day-concept-album-demo-versions-20130425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1824","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day Musical \/ Concept Album &#8211; demo versions 20130425"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F5121373\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, as a songwriting challenge, I decided to work on a musical. Almost immediately I changed the final goal to not be a complete musical, but an album&#8217;s worth of songs that, if I wanted to put in way more work, could be turned into a stage musical one day.<\/p>\n<p>After a few weeks of deliberation, I settled on Groundhog Day as the basis of the songs. I picked this movie because it&#8217;s a modern classic that everyone knows. If I ever performed it with just me and a piano, I wouldn&#8217;t have to communicate every part of the story with everyone in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>So in the Soundcloud player above is the result of about 11 months of part-time songwriting. If the player isn&#8217;t showing up and you want to give it a listen, click this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/lukeburrage\/sets\/groundhog-day-concept-album\" target=\"new\">Groundhog Day Concept Album &#8211; demo versions 20130425<\/a>. This is a demo recording only (meaning it was recorded using only a Zoom above my electric piano in my juggling studio, one take for each song, no effects or multitracking).<\/p>\n<p>Below are all the lyrics of all the songs, plus the voiceover introductions I would read out between the songs if I were to ever perform it all live as a solo show. These introductions aren&#8217;t in the above recording, and if you know the movie well they&#8217;re probably superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Groundhog Day<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Groundhog Day. I hope you&#8217;ve seen the movie, or else this show might not make as much sense.<\/p>\n<p>In America, Groundhog Day is an annual winter festival. Outside of America, nobody knows what happens on Groundhog Day. <\/p>\n<p>Outside of America, nobody knows what a groundhog is.<\/p>\n<p>To clear up any confusion, let&#8217;s hear from the star of the show. His name is Phil. Phil is a Groundhog.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Groundhog&#8217;s Song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Part 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Introduction<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI'm a groundhog, small and round\r\nI'm often found down in the ground\r\nThat's in my name, but don't be mistaken\r\nI'm not a pig, I'm no good for bacon.\r\n\r\nI live in muddy hole under a log.\r\nA rodent that's just called a hog.\r\nI chew on branches, gnaw on wood\r\nA bit like a beaver but not quite as good.\r\n\r\nI can't jump like a squirrel or fly like a bat\r\nor swim like an otter or purr like a cat\r\nOr spray like a skunk or run like a hare\r\nOr hunt like a fox or fight like a bear\r\n\r\nIn fact there's nothing special about me\r\nThe world would be the same without me\r\nNo-one gives me any thought\r\nMy encyclopedia entry is short\r\nI have no special purpose here\r\nExcept for on just one day of the year!\r\n\r\n\r\nI'm a groundhog, look at me\r\nYou're not so impressed but there's more you can't see\r\nThe other rodents shrug \"whatever\"\r\nBut none of them can forecast the weather.\r\n\r\nI have this special super power\r\nBut only for a single hour\r\nAt around about seven or eight\r\nJust after dawn, on one single date...\r\n\r\nOn the morning of the second day\r\nOf the second month, then I have my say.\r\nAnd all the humans from the town\r\nArrive at my home, they all gather round.\r\n\r\n\r\nThey visit me for a single reason\r\nI predict the end of the coldest season.\r\nThey want to know if they will see\r\nAnother six weeks of misery\r\nOf ice, and wind, and hail, and snow.\r\nOr will spring come soon? And I let them know!\r\n\r\nIn winter Groundhogs hibernate\r\nI sleep through cold, it's the best way to wait. \r\nBut by february I really need to eat \r\nand to defecate\r\n\r\nI poke my little nose out of my burrow\r\nWill I leave my hole today or tomorrow?\r\nIf the clouds cover the sun\r\nThen spring will come soon, and my sleeping is done.\r\n\r\nBut if the sun shines down on me\r\nAnd if my shadow is the first thing I see\r\nIt scares me and I turn around\r\nAnd shuffle back down underground\r\n\r\nYou might think the sun is a sign of good luck\r\nBut the reverse is true for this little woodchuck\r\nAnother six weeks of winter is on the way.\r\nAnother six weeks of winter is on the way.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The other star of the show is also called Phil. Phil Connors. <\/p>\n<p>Like the Groundhog, Phil also shares his views on the length of winter. He&#8217;s the weatherman for Channel 9 Action News. <\/p>\n<p>Phil is on the way to the town of Punxatawny to cover the Groundhog Day festival. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s traveling with Producer Rita and Cameraman Larry, but we all know who&#8217;s the most important of these three.<\/p>\n<p><b>Phil&#8217;s Song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I am the Talent<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI'll do it my way\r\nThat's a fact\r\nI'll do it my way\r\nThat's how I act\r\n\r\nAnd you'll do it my way\r\nThat's what you're here to do\r\nYes you'll do it my way\r\nThat is all I want from you\r\n\r\nSo listen up here, listen in here\r\nI'm the star that's glistening here\r\n\r\nOh yeah\r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nI'm the one who has the knack\r\nI have the gift, I have the touch\r\nIt's in my blood, so please stand back.  \r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nThe accolades will all be mine\r\nYou and you just do your best then\r\nPlease stand back and watch me shine. \r\n\r\nJust watch me shine\r\nJust watch me shine\r\n\r\nI'll do it my way\r\n'cause I know best\r\nI'm more important\r\nThan all the rest\r\n\r\nSo if you try to give me advice\r\nI warn you I will not be nice\r\n\r\nOh no\r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nI'm the leader of the pack.\r\nI am the master, I am the boss,\r\nI'm numero uno, please stand back.\r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nFor autographs please stand in line\r\nYou and you are nothing beside me\r\nPlease stand back and watch me shine\r\n\r\nJust watch me shine\r\nJust watch me shine\r\nJust watch me shine\r\n\r\nAnyone can do your job, yeah\r\nYou're all interchangeable  \r\nYou're not like me\r\n\r\nEven if you work hard\r\nYou will never be a star at all\r\nA star like me\r\n\r\nYou're born with it or born without it\r\nThere's nothing you can do about it\r\nSo you must do things my way\r\nYou must obey\r\nUnless today\r\nThey who pay\r\nAnd hold sway,\r\nsay\r\nhey\r\nyou now may\r\ndo it your way.\r\nDon't listen to the talent, okay.\r\nBut at least they acknowledge\r\nThat I am the talent here, yeah.\r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nI have those things that you lack\r\nI have the skill, I have the flair \r\nI have the strength, so please stand back.  \r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nI'm the one with gifts divine\r\nYou and you can clean up behind me\r\nPlease stand back and watch me shine\r\n  \r\n\r\nI am the talent here\r\nNothing can be out of whack\r\nCoffee not tea, hot not cold\r\nPut this right, then please stand back.\r\n\r\nI am the talent here,\r\nYou must listen to me whine\r\nThe car's too slow, the hotels smells.\r\nWith all this how do you expect me to shine?\r\n\r\nIf I'm not fine\r\nHow can I shine?\r\nyou've crossed a line\r\nIf I don't shine\r\n\r\nIt's a very very bad sign\r\nIf I don't shine\r\nAnd your ass will be mine\r\nIf I don't shine.\r\n\r\nYes I'll blame you\r\nIf I don't shine\r\nBut credit's all mine\r\nIf I then shine\r\nJust watch me shine\r\nJust watch me shine\r\n\r\nPlease stand back and watch me\r\nShine\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After a night in a hotel, Phil wakes up. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the morning of Groundhog Day! Is it going to be a good day?<\/p>\n<p>It starts just fine, with coffee and breakfast. <\/p>\n<p>But then, on the way to the festival, Phil meets Ned. <\/p>\n<p>Ned the Head. Needlenose Ned. <\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about Ned.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ned&#8217;s Song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Most Annoying Man in the World<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nDid you ever meet the most annoying man in the world?\r\nI'm not talking figuratively\r\nbut actually literally.\r\n\r\nDid you ever meet the most annoying man in the world?\r\nsomeone who is categorically \r\nas obnoxious as a man can be?\r\n\r\nLet me describe the most annoying man in the world\r\nand I'll start with his history.\r\n\r\nAs a child at school,\r\nhe always was a fool.\r\nA tragic class clown\r\nwho made nobody grin\r\n\r\nA boring life,\r\nwith a boring wife,\r\nnow he sells insurance\r\nwith such perseverance \r\nat every chance\r\nhe rants and thinks \r\nthat you might give in.\r\n\r\nReally over there's the most annoying man in the world\r\nI say that justifiably\r\nif you met him you'd agree\r\n\r\nBut don't go over there and talk to most annoying man in the world\r\nI can tell you objectively\r\nthat it will not end happily\r\n\r\nLet me describe the most annoying man in the world\r\nand I'll continue with his physicality\r\nhe puts on his clothes\r\nwith his eyes closed\r\nand he wears a bow tie\r\nand he walks with a hunch.\r\n\r\nHe has a big head\r\nand a nose so red\r\nand he has a fat mouth \r\nthat I just want to punch\r\nwanna punch\r\nwanna punch\r\nwanna punch him in the mouth, yeah.\r\n\r\nFrom now on I'm going to avoid the most annoying man in the world.\r\nI should be able to do that easily;\r\nat a long distance you can hear him laughing so frustratingly.\r\n\r\nAnd I hope nobody else ever has to come in contact with the most annoying man in the world\r\nand I really do mean that genuinely\r\nand so you can spot him easily\r\n\r\nlet me describe the most annoying man in the world\r\nand I'll conclude with his personality.\r\n\r\nHe has no shame\r\nand his jokes are lame\r\nand he thinks old catch\r\nphrases make him sound bright.\r\n\r\nThere's no subtext\r\nto his stupid sound effects\r\nhis intellect is is oh so slight.\r\nAm I right or am I right or am I right or am I right?\r\n\r\nHe's always cheery\r\nthough his life is so dreary \r\nand he's always optimistic\r\nwith a little not a lot.\r\n\r\nHe gets in your face\r\nin your personal space\r\nand he acts like you're a friend\r\nwhen you're really not\r\nand he knows you're not\r\nand you know he knows \r\nyou are not.\r\n\r\nHe want's you to stay\r\nBut you walk away\r\nAnd he joins you\r\nwith that fake familiarity.\r\nYou start to fight\r\nto get out of his sight.\r\nBut he gloms on to you\r\npersistently\r\ndistractingly\r\nconsistently\r\nobnoxiously\r\nand needlessly\r\nacting weirdly\r\nand annoyingly...\r\n\r\nHe's more annoying than this!\r\nHe's more annoying than this!\r\n\r\nDid you ever meet the most annoying man in the world? And I don't mean me.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Phil covers the Groundhog Day festivities every year, and hates it.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the big deal?<\/p>\n<p><b>The Groundhog&#8217;s Song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Reprise<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI'm a groundhog, or more specifically\r\nMarmota Monax, my name scientifically.\r\nIn fact, I will now unapologetically\r\nDefine myself further phylogenetically.\r\n\r\nI have a brain, so in the Kingdom Animalia\r\nI have a spine, so in the Phylum Kordata\r\nDrank milk when young, so in the Class Mammalia\r\nTwo long front teeth, so in the Order Rodentia\r\n\r\nMy tail is bushy, a little bit squirrelly\r\nSo that means I'm of the Sciuridae Family\r\nBut I dig holes, so in the Genus Marmota\r\nDo you care a lot, or not one iota?\r\n\r\nNo, I see you have only one query\r\nAlways the same, it makes me so weary\r\nHow much wood would a wood chuck chuck?\r\nBut I don't chuck wood, so I don't give a... duck.\r\n\r\nBut then on this one day of every year\r\nI answer the question that I like to hear.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn winter Groundhogs hibernate\r\nI sleep through cold, it's the best way to wait. \r\nBut by february I really need to eat and to defecate \r\n\r\nI poke my little nose out of my burrow\r\nWill I leave my hole today or tomorrow?\r\nIf the clouds cover the sun\r\nThen spring will come soon, and my sleeping is done.\r\n\r\nBut if the sun shines down on me\r\nAnd if my shadow is the first thing I see\r\nIt scares me and I turn around\r\nAnd I shuffle back down underground\r\n\r\nYou might think the sun is a sign of good luck\r\nThe reverse is true for this little woodchuck\r\nAnother six weeks of winter is on the way.\r\nAnother six weeks of winter is on the way.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>Get Out of This Town<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nIf I could be here for less than one whole day\r\nYou know that would make a very happy man\r\nI'll just finish my job here, and then I'll get away\r\nYou know I want to leave just as soon as I can\r\n\r\nI've worked in this town three times before\r\nThe same clouds in the sky the same shit on the floor\r\nThe same hicks at the party getting drunk through the night\r\nThe same songs that they sing when it starts to get light.\r\n\r\nIt drives me crazy round here. \r\n\r\nI just want to get, wanna get out of this town!\r\nI just want to get, wanna get out of this town!\r\n\r\n\r\nBlah blah groundhog, something something winter something \r\nsix more weeks, I'll catch you later, action news out, hey let's call it a wrap.\r\n\r\nNo, we don't need another take, let's make a break\r\nI'll get my bags, \r\nYou get the van, we must drive far, drive as far as we can.\r\n\r\nWhat do you mean we can't get out?\r\nA little snow here is nothing to worry about\r\nWhat do you mean the lines are down?\r\nThere's no way I can call someone outside of town?\r\n\r\nNot even a celebrity in an emergency like me?\r\n\r\nI don't want to get, wanna get stuck in this town!\r\nThe blizzard can't be that bad.\r\nI don't want to get, wanna get stuck in this town!\r\n\r\nI just want to get, wanna get out of this town!\r\nThe blizzard can't be that bad.\r\nI just want to get, wanna get out of this town!\r\n\r\n\r\nOkay, I've complained enough.\r\nIt's not so bad, I guess it's not so tough.\r\n\r\nIn the morning everything will be alright.\r\nI only have to stay here for one more night.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After an unplanned second night in the hotel, Phil wakes up. <\/p>\n<p>Is it going to be a good day? <\/p>\n<p>Phil hopes so, as his only plan is to leave Punxatawny. <\/p>\n<p>But very soon he gets that funny feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Deja Vu<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nDeja vu.\r\nDidn't I do this before?\r\nDeja vu.\r\nBut I'll ask for coffee once more.\r\n\r\n(I am the talent here theme.)\r\n\r\nDeja vu.\r\nDidn't I meet you before?\r\nDeja vu.\r\nRight outside this very store? \r\n\r\n(Most annoying man in the world theme.)\r\n\r\nDeja vu.\r\nDidn't I stand here before?\r\nDeja vu.\r\nWatch them knock on the groundhogs door?\r\n\r\n(Groundhog's theme.)\r\n\r\nDeja vu.\r\nDidn't we try that before?\r\nDeja vu.\r\nIt's so bad I can't ignore.\r\n\r\nDeja vu.\r\nDidn't we try that before.\r\nDeja vu.\r\nI can't take it any more.\r\n\r\n\r\nI don't want to get, wanna get stuck in this\r\nDeja vu.\r\nI just want to get, wanna to get out of this \r\nDeja vu.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Another night in the hotel, and Phil is more than confused. <\/p>\n<p>He needs some help. <\/p>\n<p>He brings up his problem with Producer Rita in the diner.<\/p>\n<p><b>Going Insane<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nSit down here with me okay, let's take a short break\r\nI need to talk to you, I've a confession to make\r\nFor three days now something weird is going down\r\nEverything keeps happening again and again in this town\r\n\r\nBut nobody else seems to notice but me\r\nWhat can I do, it's driving me crazy\r\n\r\n\r\nI went to a doctor and I laid down on his bed\r\nHe looked me in the eye and then he x-rayed my head \r\nHe said \"It's oh so clear, there's nothing's wrong in here\r\nNo lesions, or clots, or tumors or spots, you've nothing to fear.\r\n\r\nI don't have a cat scan, done everything that I can\r\nThe town is pretty small, but I do know this one man\r\nIf you're feeling woozy, if your mind is hazy\r\nHe'll talk to you if you're feeling crazy.\"\r\n\r\n\r\nI followed his advice and I went to the shrink\r\nI lay on his couch and I asked him wadaya think?\r\nHe said \"My final diagnosis must wait\r\nCome back here tomorrow.\" \r\nBut tomorrow will be too late!\r\n\r\n\r\nI think I'm going just a little insane\r\nIt doesn't make sense if it's not all in my brain\r\nI can't work out what it's all about\r\nAnd I have to admit that it's freaking me out\r\n\r\nI need some advice, so between you and me\r\nWhat do you suggest if I'm not a bit crazy\r\n\r\n\r\nBut what if this is not a delusion and\r\nNo part of my brain is casting an illusion\r\nWhat if I'm not the one who's sick in the head?\r\nWhat if someone else plans all this while I am in my bed?\r\n\r\nWhat if the entire town is in collusion?\r\nYeah, they're all in on the joke just to cause me more confusion?\r\nIt's a sick sick game, no they couldn't all be so bad.\r\nI've got to make a test right now to prove that I'm not mad.\r\n\r\n\r\nNo, I don't think that I am going insane\r\nIt's not a bad joke, and it's not all in my brain.\r\nI can't work out, what it's all about.\r\nEvery day's the same, but I won't freak out.\r\n\r\nI'll take it all in stride, no I won't let it phase me,\r\nI'll just carry on as though, I am not crazy.\r\n\r\nI'll just tell myself that, I am not crazy.\r\nWhat do I do now that, I am not crazy?\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If every day is the same, and nothing you do has any effect on the future, what kind of life would that be? <\/p>\n<p>And with such a life, what would you do?<\/p>\n<p><b>Life Without Consequences<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nLife without consequences\r\nGonna drink this beer, and go crazy tonight\r\nNo hangovers, no repercussions\r\nThis kink in time will put things right\r\n\r\nLife without consequences\r\nGonna drive my car on the railroad tracks tonight\r\nNothing that I do now counts tomorrow\r\nThrow me in jail I'll be alright.\r\n\r\nLife without consequences\r\nEat what I want and how I like today\r\nMy cholesterol resets at midnight\r\nAnd all this fat just fades away.\r\n\r\nLife without consequences\r\nGonna rob this truck, gonna simply take this cash\r\nYou won't catch me, I don't think so\r\nGot just 12 hours to spend this stash.\r\n\r\nLife without consequences\r\nGonna trick this girl, gonna take her on a date\r\nA one night stand without that awkward\r\nNext morning after we mate.\r\n\r\nIf there's no consequences\r\nIf there's no memory\r\nIf I just follow my obsession\r\nThere's just one girl out there for me.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Phil turns his attention to Rita, and does his best to seduce her, getting one step closer every day.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rita&#8217;s Song &#8211; The Perfect Day<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nThis has been\r\nThe perfect day\r\nI never dreamed that it would turn out this way\r\n\r\nThis has been\r\nThe perfect day\r\nI woke up this morning and the clouds were so grey\r\n\r\nAnd then you bought me a drink\r\nAnd then you made me think\r\nOh, how you made me remember\r\n\r\nAnd then you made me smile\r\nAs we chatted for a while\r\nLike old friends catching up\r\nAfter years and years have gone by\r\nIt's like you knew me so well,\r\nAnd I knew you too.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis has been\r\nThe perfect day\r\nI never dreamed it that would turn out this way\r\n\r\nThis has been\r\nThe perfect day\r\nI had my doubts, but then you held them at bay\r\n\r\nAnd then we kept talking through\r\nOur meal just for two\r\nOh, how your words were so tender\r\n\r\nA snowman at night\r\nA silly snowball fight\r\nI danced in your arms\r\nAnd all my fears fell away\r\nAnd then you kissed me\r\nAnd I kissed you too\r\n\r\n\r\nThe perfect day,\r\nThe perfect day,\r\nNo one could ever have planned this all this way\r\n\r\nThe perfect day\r\nThe perfect day\r\nYou asked me inside then you ask me to stay\r\n\r\nAnd then I said not so fast,\r\nI want to make this last\r\nYou know there's always tomorrow\r\n\r\nAnd then suddenly\r\nBack in front of me\r\nWas the man I knew from yesterday\r\nThe scales on my eyes fell away\r\n\r\nHow could I've been so blind?\r\nYou have not changed at all have you\r\n\r\nThe perfect day\r\nThis could have been,\r\nI should have guessed that it would turn out this way\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Phil just wants the day to be over.<\/p>\n<p>He just wants an end to this everlasting winter.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Phil and Phil are in the same boat.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Groundhog&#8217;s Song &#8211; Part 3 &#8211; The Lament<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI'm a groundhog, let me unveil\r\nmy secret story, I'll tell you my tail.\r\nAll year long, I live for the day\r\nWhen everyone listens to all that I say.\r\n\r\nThen this year that day came around\r\nI poked my little nose out of the ground,\r\nAnd then when asked, I gave with conviction\r\nMy outlook, my forecast, my weather prediction.\r\n\r\nAnd then the next day, what do you know,\r\nThe humans once again put on their show.\r\nThey picked me up, and asked me once more\r\nIf another six weeks of winter's in store.\r\n\r\nYes, I squeaked, you asked me that yesterday\r\nThen the next morning, yet another replay\r\nThen the next day yet again\r\nAnd then the next day more of the same.\r\nAnd every single day since then\r\nIt's all happened over and over again.\r\n\r\n\r\nDeja Vu, I know I did this before!\r\n\r\n\r\nI'm a groundhog, and I'm frustrated\r\nmy most awaited day is now deflated\r\nOnce so special, my fans so adoring\r\nNow sets me yawning each morning it's so boring\r\n\r\nHow many days have passed I can't tell\r\nI'm just a groundhog, and I can't count that well\r\nBut it's more than six weeks, maybe a year\r\nAnd every day summer is never more near\r\n\r\n\r\nTo stop the day repeating forever I try\r\nTo change my answer on spring coming soon to a lie\r\nI tell them no! I don't see my shadow before me\r\nBut it's like they don't hear me or maybe they simply ignore me\r\nIt's like I'm a pawn in someone else's story.\r\n\r\nI'm a groundhog, so, what's new?\r\nI'm living forever with nothing to do.\r\nAfter my forecast I'm taken off stage\r\nFor most of the day I'm left in a cage.\r\n\r\nI eat dirty carrots and drink from a bowl\r\nThen late in the day I'm let back in my hole\r\nI see no other groundhogs all day\r\nI've no one to talk to, and nothing to say.\r\n\r\n\r\nExcept... what's this? Something has changed!\r\nA human I don't know, who's kinda deranged,\r\nHe's stolen the truck, he's driving so fast\r\nSome kind of adventure is happening at last.\r\n\r\nWe drive into a very large quarry\r\nWe're fine in here, we've no need to worry\r\nWe have all the space we need,\r\nTo drive safely at any speed. \r\n\r\nExcept, oh shit, we hit the edge of the cliff\r\n\r\nAnd we're going down...\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>Answer My Call \/ Methods of Suicide<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI thought Death would be my friend\r\nAnd this infernal day would come to an end\r\nFrom that moment hence\r\nThis life without consequence\r\nwould be over.\r\n\r\nI thought Death would be kind to me\r\nThat driving off a cliff would set me free\r\nImprisoned in this present tense\r\nMy life without consequence\r\nIt starts over\r\nAgain\r\nBut not from the first day, no,\r\nit always on the worst day.\r\n\r\nDeath won't answer my call\r\nOh no, he must have it in for me.\r\nThe grim reaper won't answer at all\r\nHe leaves me hanging on for eternity\r\n\r\n\r\nI bought a gun, and used it to shoot me\r\nI stole a toaster to electrocute me\r\nI threw myself, from the church, and landed on my head\r\nbut I'm not dead.\r\n\r\nNo, I've been crushed, \r\nI've been poisoned,\r\nI've been burned, \r\nI've been smashed.\r\nI've been frozen, \r\nI've been hung, \r\nI've been stabbed, \r\nI've been slashed.\r\nI slit my wrists, and my neck, and waited while I bled,\r\nBut I'm not dead!\r\n\r\nNo, I've been boiled, \r\nI've been squashed\r\nI've been sliced, \r\nI've been melted.\r\nI've been drowned, \r\nI've been blown up,\r\nI've been decapitated.\r\nWhat is left for, me to try? I don't know the reason why,\r\nI'm not dead.\r\n\r\nNo no no no no no no no...\r\n\r\nDynamite, train crash,\r\nSteam roller, acid bath.\r\nAnvil, Guillotine,\r\nBuffalo stampede. \r\n\r\nWhat will it take?\r\nDeath, give me a break,\r\nPick up, pick up, pick up.\r\n\r\nPick up pick up pick up pick up \r\nPick up pick up pick up pick up\r\n\r\nAre the lines still down?\r\nWon't somebody put though?\r\nA celebrity in an emergency like me.\r\nDeath, answer my call.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Phil is getting desperate. <\/p>\n<p>In the diner, he confesses to Rita that he&#8217;s unique and special.<\/p>\n<p>And not &#8220;unique and special&#8221; the way he considered himself before Groundhog Day began.<\/p>\n<p><b>I Am A God \/ The Good Works Montage<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI am a god.\r\nI live eternally\r\nAt least I might be a god\r\nWill you believe in me?\r\n\r\nI don't mean that I am The God\r\nI am just one deity\r\nSo when you write down my name\r\nUse a small not a big G.\r\n\r\n\r\nVery many years ago there were many gods\r\nThere were gods below and gods above\r\nGods of thunder and gods of lightning\r\nGods of war and gods of love\r\n\r\nGods of the beasts and gods of the birds and\r\nGods of the land and gods of the sea\r\nGods of the wind and gods of the sky and\r\nGods of knowledge and philosophy\r\n\r\nAll gods of something cool, you know\r\n\r\nBut not all gods are created equally\r\nWhen I got my promotion there was only one job  opening for me.\r\n\r\n\r\nI'm the god of boredom\r\nI'm the god of tedium\r\nI'm the god of weariness\r\n\r\nI'm the god of ennui\r\nI'm the god of lethargy\r\nI'm the god of listlessness\r\n\r\nI'm the god called Phil\r\nThe god of wasting time\r\n\r\n\r\nI am a god, not\r\nbecause I can't be killed\r\nI know all there is to know\r\nMy brain is totally filled\r\n\r\nWith every figure and fact\r\nOf everything I can learn\r\nI know everyone here\r\nSo let me take each in turn.\r\n\r\nThis is Doris, her brother owns the diner\r\nshe dreams of visiting Paris more than anything.\r\nThis is Debbie, engaged to Fred,\r\ntheir wedding is today, but Debbie's reconsidering.\r\n\r\nThis is Bill and Bill is gay, \r\nTom worked in a mine, and Guy was in the navy.\r\nNancy here, she works in the dress shop.\r\nAlice left Ireland when she was just a baby.\r\n\r\nThis is Rita, she works in television\r\nShe likes boats but not the ocean\r\nLikes ice-cream but not white chocolate\r\nLikes French poetry full of emotion.\r\n\r\nThis is Rita, kind to strangers,\r\nGood for herself, and not just for show, \r\nWhen life is hard she smiles at the world, \r\nAnd she looks like an angel when she stands in the snow.\r\n\r\nShe's not for me though.\r\n\r\nNot all gods are created equally\r\nI'm merely the god of a god damned town called Punxsutawney.\r\n\r\nI'm the god of pointless \r\nI'm the god of aimless\r\nI'm the god of hours to kill\r\n\r\nI'm the god of useless\r\nI'm the god of fruitless\r\nI'm the god of the worthless skill\r\n\r\nI'm the god of... throwing cards into a hat...\r\nOf one episode of jeopardy, and...  futile things like that.\r\n\r\nI'm the god of knowing stuff that doesn't help me\r\nI'm the god of doing stuff that doesn't make me happy.\r\n\r\nIf I am a god, \r\nThen being a god is no fun\r\nAnd yet if I'm just a man\r\nI'm not a very good one\r\n\r\nMaybe I should bring coffee\r\nAnd give Larry a bun\r\nI'm sorry, no time to chat\r\nI've got some errands to run\r\n\r\nErrands? What errands?\r\n\r\nFix this tyre as soon as possible\r\nStop the mayor from choking on his beefsteak \r\nFix the back of Felix too and\r\nStop young Debbie from making a mistake\r\n\r\nCatch this boy as he falls off a branch\r\nI'm never not here, even though he never thanks me.\r\nBuy this old man one hot meal,\r\nI can't save his life but at least he won't die hungry.\r\n\r\nThat's the best I can ever do.\r\n\r\nNot all humans are created equally\r\nAnd who can help the people who need it around here as much as me?\r\n\r\nI'm a man of action\r\nI'm a man of exertion\r\nI'm a man of get up and go\r\n\r\nI'm a man of learning\r\nI'm a man of training\r\nI'm a man of wanting to grow\r\n\r\nI am a man who sets his mind, to\r\nbetter himself, to put in the time, to \r\nlearn the piano and how to carve ice, to\r\nalways improve, no matter what the price.\r\n\r\nI'm just a man\r\nThat's good enough for me\r\nIf I'm just a man\r\nI'll be the best I can be.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>At the end of every Groundhog Day is the Groundhog Day Ball. <\/p>\n<p>All the people from the town gather for music, for dancing, and for a charity auction of eligible bachelors. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s join Cameraman Larry, at the bar, with Nancy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Larry&#8217;s Song &#8211; What Has Phil Got?<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nLook at me, I'm a pretty clever guy\r\nAnd there's more to my job than meets the eye\r\nI don't just point my camera at stuff\r\nIt's actually quite tough, and funnily enough,\r\n\r\nIt's considered an art form, really.\r\nYou're not listening to anything I'm saying, are you?\r\nI don't think so.\r\n\r\nLook at me, I'm a pretty nice guy\r\nThis two dollar tip should catch your eye\r\nBut you've no interest in me have you,\r\nIt's obviously true, so what can I do\r\n\r\nTo get you into the back of the broadcast truck.\r\nIt probably won't happen.\r\nI don't think so.\r\n\r\n\r\nYour lack of interest's clear\r\nYou'd really rather not be here\r\nBut then this evening really goes down hill\r\nWhen you say let's go to the party to find Phil\r\n\r\n\r\nPhil? Phil Connors?\r\nWhy do you want to find Phil?\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat has Phil got that I've not got?\r\nI don't know what, it must be a lot\r\nMaybe Phil he just forgot, \r\nto mention his mansion and his yacht.\r\n\r\nHe doesn't earn much more money than me and Rita.\r\nAt least I don't think so.\r\n\r\nWhat has Phil got that I don't got?\r\nA guy like him would never have a shot\r\nUnless the women round here have all lost the plot\r\nOr maybe they all have soft spot,\r\nfor a man with the emotional capacity of a robot.\r\n\r\n\r\nWell, at least yesterday,\r\nI'd have to describe Phil that way\r\nBut then this evening goes further down hill\r\nWhen the charity auction begins with bidding on Phil.\r\n\r\n\r\nOkay Ladies, place your bets!\r\n\r\n\r\n5 dollars \r\nWhat has Phil got that I've not got?\r\n10 dollars\r\nDon't know what, but it must be a lot\r\n\r\n15\r\nWhat has Phil got that I've not got?\r\n20 dollars\r\nDo the ladies really think Phil is hot?\r\n\r\n25 \r\nNow, of course we'll soon reach the limit\r\n30 dollars\r\nAnd the winner will really regret it.\r\n\r\n35 \r\nNow this just can't be right\r\n40 dollars\r\nOn and on, on and on goes the fight \r\n\r\n45 \r\nWhat's Phil got that I've not got\r\n50 dollars \r\nThis is going longer than I'd have thought\r\n\r\n55 \r\nNow one soon must give in\r\n60 dollars \r\nLooks like Nancy is finally going to win\r\n\r\n60 dollars going once\r\n60 dollars going twice\r\n60 dollars going ... wait!\r\n\r\nThree hundred and thirty-nine dollars\r\nand eighty-eight cents!\r\n\r\nThis evening hit the bottom of the hill\r\nwhen Rita bought Phil.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>You&#8217;re Not Mine But I Am Yours<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nYou're not mine, but I am yours\r\nYou bought me, that's only fair \r\nWe leave the party, head out doors\r\nSnow is falling everywhere\r\n\r\nThe first time things have gone this way\r\nThe perfect end to a perfect day\r\n\r\n\r\nYou're not mine, but I am yours\r\nI tried so hard, I tried in vain \r\nI need to tell you now because\r\nTomorrow will not come yet again\r\n\r\nI'm happy now, you know it's true,\r\nBecause, right now, I'm here with you\r\nAnd then you say, I think I'm happy too.\r\n\r\n\r\nI close my eyes and see your face\r\nQuiet now, don't make a sound\r\nYou move closer, we embrace\r\nLet me say now, before tomorrow doesn't come around,\r\nbefore tomorrow doesn't come around\r\n\r\nI'm happy now, you know it's true,\r\nBecause, right now, I'm here with you\r\nAnd then you say, I think I'm happy too.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Phil and Rita head back to the hotel. <\/p>\n<p>The next day&#8230; is the next day. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s check in with Phil.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Next Day &#8211; The Groundhog&#8217;s Song Part 4 \/ Stay in This Town<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nI'm a groundhog, and finally\r\nThat one day a year that is named after me\r\nIs not today, at last it is gone\r\nA brand new day broke today with the dawn.\r\n\r\nSo many days later, nothing to show for it\r\nUncountable days later, now I can go for it.\r\nSpring will come soon, no reason for sorrow\r\nIt's finally here, today is tomorrow!\r\n\r\n\r\nThe only day that was different from all of the rest\r\nThe single day that sticks out in my mind the best.\r\nWas the day that crazy man killed me in that truck.\r\nAnd if that happened yesterday, oh boy, that would be bad luck\r\nBecause today we'd still both be dead, and boy, that would suck.\r\n\r\nBut that wasn't our yesterday\r\nWe're both free to live today.\r\nI wonder what he'll do and how\r\nI wonder what that man is thinking now?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIf I could be here for less than one whole day\r\nYou know that would make me a very happy man\r\nBut I'm not that guy now, who thought he'd get away\r\nJust who was that guy who made such a plan?\r\n\r\n10,000 days of my dreams denied\r\nBut now I wake with Rita by my side.\r\n10,000 days to take my life apart\r\nTo change my heart although I've only made a start\r\n\r\n10,000 days, 10,000 lessons life has taught\r\nA full and happy life just can't be bought\r\n10,000 days, 10,000 lessons I have learned\r\nA full and happy life it must be earned\r\n\r\nEven by a celebrity like me.\r\n\r\n\r\nNow I just want to stay, wanna stay here in this town\r\nNowhere else I'd rather be\r\nI just want to stay, wanna stay here in this town.\r\n\r\nNow I just want to stay, wanna stay here in this town\r\nSix more weeks of winter's fine by me\r\nI just want to stay, wanna stay here in this town.\r\n\r\n\r\nOkay, I think I've said enough\r\nIt's happy ending time and all that stuff.\r\n\r\nGroundhog day is over,\r\nI'm no longer cursed\r\n\r\nI want to live here, with Rita, in our own house...\r\n\r\nWe'll rent at first.\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as a songwriting challenge, I decided to work on a musical. 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