Narrator: "And now, if you please, we're about to begin. The scene is set for our star to come in. Magic is hanging like smoke in the air and all of a sudden you see her. She's there... the girl with the golden hair!" THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC I'm nothing special in fact I'm a bit of a bore If I tell a joke you've probably heard it before But I have a talent a wonderful thing 'cause everyone listens when I start to sing I'm so grateful and proud all I want is to sing it out loud So I say Thank you for the music the songs I'm singing Thanks for all the joy they're bringing Who can live without it I ask in all honesty What would life be without a song or a dance what are we so I say thank you for the music for giving it to me Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk She says I began to sing long before I could talk And now I'm so grateful to all of the guys who bring the sweet memories into our lives I'm in love with them all I mean Brian, Chuck, John and Paul So I say... I've been so lucky I am the girl with golden hair I wanna sing it out to everybody What a joy, what a life, what a chance Thank you for the music The songs I'm singing Thanks for all the joy they're bringing I can't live without it I ask in all honesty What would life be? Without a song or a dance what are we? So I say thank you for the music It makes me happy Thank you for the music... Narrator: "By now, my dear listeners, you may think this girl is fully content in her own little world. But no, she's ambitious. She wants to appear on TV, on records - to launch a career. And yes, she's successful. Her dreams have come true. She's getting an offer, accepting it too. She's leaving her parents, her friends, her hometown. But now on departing, uncertainty is starting. She's feeling a little bit down." I WONDER This park and these houses old streets I have walked everything dear will it be here one day when I am returning? My friends will get married have children and homes It sounds so nice well-planned and wise never expecting surprises I wonder it's frightening leaving now is that the right thing? I wonder it scares me but who the hell am I if I don't even try I'm not a coward Oh no, I'll be strong one chance in a lifetime Yes, I will take it it can't go wrong My friends and my family this dull little town buses I've missed boys that I've kissed everything old and familiar I wonder it's frightening leaving now is that the right thing? I wonder... Narrator: "Famous, successful, now she's a star" Choir: "She is a star, shining, shining." Narrator: "Fulfilling her contracts, whatever they are. The contracts her manager's signing. It happens more often, she wakes up at night..." Choir: "Wakes up at night, screaming, screaming" Narrator: "Riddled with nightmares, she turns on the light. Frightened by what she was dreaming. Disillusioned and lonely she feels like a clown." Choir: "Feels like a clown, grinning, grinning" Narrator: "From concert to concert, from town to town, as though her whole world was spinning. She got what she wanted, and yet, she feels like a marionette!" I'M A MARIONETTE You're so free that's what everybody's telling me Yet I feel I'm like an outward bound pushed around, refugee Something's wrong got a feeling that I don't belong as if I have come from out of space out of place, like King-Kong I'm a marionette just a marionette pull the string I'm a marionette everybody's pet just as long as I sing I'm a marionette see my pirouette 'round and 'round I'm a marionette I'm a marionette just a silly old clown I'm a marionette! And I'm like a doll like a puppet with no will at all and somebody taught me how to talk how to walk, how to fall Can't complain I got no one but myself to blame something's happening I can't control lost my hold, it's insane Look this way just a little smile that's what they say You'll look better on the photograph if you laugh, that's OK!! I'm a marionette... I think something's wrong Got a feeling that I don't belong As if I had come from outer space Out of place like King Kong! I'm a marionette... Narrator: "The journey from heaven to hell, get on the carousel!" GET ON THE CAROUSEL Get on the carousel get on the carousel get on the roundabout is just beginning get on it's fun to see the world a-spinning get on the carousel get on the carousel get on your happiness is waiting for you get on be famous, let the world adore you get on the carousel get on the carousel I feel so dizzy I wanna go Listen! Now I don't think I can take much more So can't you tell 'em to make it slow Listen! I want the speed that I had before I'm feeling sick and I wanna stop Spinning! So won't you let me get off this thing? I got a feeling I reached the top Spinning! I only wanted to dance and sing The roundabout is just beginning... I feel so dizzy I wanna go... (I'm A Marionette reprise) I'm a marionette just a marionette pull the string I'm a marionette everybody's pet just as long as I sing I'm a marionette see my pirouette 'round and 'round I'm a marionette I'm a marionette just a silly old clown The roundabout is just beginning... (I Wonder reprise) No, I'm not a coward oh no, I'll be strong one chance in a lifetime yes, I will take it yes, I will take it it can't go wrong I feel so dizzy I wanna go...