Cabaret
Life's Melody: Embracing the Cabaret of Existence
Lyrics
What good is sitting, alone in your room?
Questioning the value of staying isolated and inactive.
But come, hear the music play!
Invitation to join and experience the music.
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Life is akin to a cabaret, full of variety and entertainment.
Come to the cabaret!
Encouragement to participate in the cabaret.
Put down your knitting, your book and your broom
Abandoning mundane tasks for enjoyment.
It is time for a holiday
Indication that it's time for a break or vacation.
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Reiteration that life resembles a cabaret, inviting engagement.
Come to the cabaret!
Repetition, reinforcing the call to join the cabaret.
Come taste the wine
Invitation to indulge in pleasures like wine.
Come hear the band
Encouragement to listen to the band playing.
Come blow that horn
Encouragement to express oneself, to participate.
Start celebrating
Emphasis on starting festivities and joy.
Right this way your table's waiting
Guidance to a reserved table, highlighting anticipation.
What good's permitting some prophet of doom?
Questioning the benefit of allowing pessimism to ruin joy.
To wipe every smile away
Not letting negativity take away happiness.
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Life likened again to a cabaret, despite challenges.
So come to the cabaret!
Reiteration, inviting attendance at the cabaret.
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
Story of Elsie's life and tragic demise due to substance abuse.
With whom I shared for sordid rooms in Chelsea
-She wasn't what you call a blushing flower
-As a matter of fact she rented by the hours
-The day she died the neighbours
-Came to snicker her
-Well, that is what comes from
-Too much pills and liquor
-But when I saw her laid down like a queen
Recalling Elsie's contentment despite her difficult life.
She was the happiest corpes I'd ever seen
-I think of Elsie till this very day
-I remember how she'd turned to me and say
-What good is sitting all alone in your room?
Rhetorical question, emphasizing the importance of engaging in life.
Come hear the music play
Reiteration of the invitation to enjoy music and life.
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Reaffirmation that life is akin to a cabaret.
Come to the cabaret!
Encouragement to join the lively atmosphere of the cabaret.
And as for me
Expressing a decision to live life fully, akin to Elsie's approach.
And as for me
-I made my mind up back in Chelsea
-When I go I am going like Elsie
-Start by admitting
-From cradle to doom
-It isn't that long a stay
-Life is a cabaret, old chum!
-It's only a cabaret, old chum!
-And I love a cabaret!
Expressing love for the vibrant, diverse nature of life symbolized by a cabaret.
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