A Beat Behind

A Beat Behind - Original Broadway Cast Recording

1 2 3 4 lift those legs up

Higher it's time to perspire

I wanna know where your fire is

Harder now show me some ardor

Before you retire from the biz

Thirty five

And I can't go the distance

I'm a beat behind

Half alive

Seems my whole damned existence

Is a beat behind

I'm gone to seed

And in need

Of condemning

I've got the drive

To survive of a lemming

Time made me obsolete

And a beat behind

Push it class

Cause it gets tougher

Paula you're a beat behind

Arms apart

For your art suffer

Paula move your sweet behind

Stop looking glum

Overcome my inertia

Some season soon

Tommy tune

May rehearse ya

He'll keep you on your feet

Till you lose your mind

You're a beat behind

Paula what happened to Paula

So sad to see Paula fall apart

Out of breath

Out of shape

And exactly as I thought

Behind

Look at her

With the lungs of Madonna

And a taut behind

Somebody

Get me an anti depressant

She's at the post

Maybe post adolescent

Time can be so unkind

I'm a beat behind

This is so perverse

Better call a nurse

Better yet a hearse

I thought I'd bounce right back

A job would fall in place

But what is so appalling is

I'm falling on my face

Well at least I've got a roof above my head

But if I must die I'd rather die in bed

Some one

Wake me

I am in a

Nightmare

I've got

No stamina

Sweat till your sleek at the peak of condition

They're doing shows now with no intermission

Step it up

Play the part

Show your stuff

And let your

Heart rate climb

Pour it on

Let 'em know that

Your body's workin'

Over time

No time to rest time to test your endurance

Laid up in pain but with paid up ensurance

Dance like Astaire with un erring precision

Brain cells employed to avoid a collision

I've got a flat rent controlled and a daughter

I'd trade them both for a teaspoon of water

Back to the Broadway grind

You're a beat behind

You're a beat behind

You're a beat behind