Leonard Bernstein — Carried Away

[Claire DeLoone] Modern man, what is it? Just a collection of complexes and neurotic impulses That occasionally break thorugh [Ozzie] You mean sometimes you blow your top, like me? [Claire] I do I try hard to stay contolled But I get carried away Try to act aloof and cold But I get carried away [Both] Carried away, carried away Carried away, carried away You get carried, I get carried Yes, 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! [Both] Carried away, carried away Carried away, carried away You get carried, I get carried Yes, 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 whole right through the screen! [Both] Carried away, carried away Carried away, carried away He gets carried, I get carried Yes, 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 [Both] Carried away, carried away Carried away, carried away He gets carried, I get carried Yes, carried away [Ozzie] When shopping, I'm 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! [Both] Carried away, carried away Carried away, carried away He gets carried, I get carried Yes, 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 travelling 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! [Both] Carried away, carried away We get carried Yes, carried away