NOTHING LIKE BROADWAY: DAVID RACKOFF LYRICS & MUSIC
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Perfect Scansion

I stress over every stress.
The Racing Horse Winner reprise (excerpt)

YOU BET ON A HORSE, AND ANOTHER, AND THEN
YOU KEEP BETTING ON HORSES AGAIN AND AGAIN.
YOU’RE UP ON A HIGH, AND YOU’LL NEVER COME OFF IT,
YOUR PROBLEMS ARE HIDDEN BY PILES OF PROFIT.

YOU FEEL LIKE A PRINCE, BUT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND
THAT YOUR CASTLE IS BUILT ON A BASEMENT OF SAND.
A CASTLE WITH SAND AS THE BASEMENT PERHAPS IS
​PRECISELY THE REASON YOUR CASTLE COLLAPSES.
   The Racing Horse Winner reprise - clip (from The Rocking Horse Winner) Lyrics by David Rackoff, Music by Sahara Sunday Spain

The Music Box (excerpt)

I ONCE GOT A PRESENT. A SMALL METAL BOX.
YOU LIFT UP THE LID AND A TIN HORSEY ROCKS.
INSIDE WAS A BARREL WHERE PINS PLUCKED A COMB,
AND MUSIC FILLED UP ALL THE HOLES IN MY HOME.
​THE MUSIC FILLED MY HOME.
​
   The Music Box - clip (from The Rocking Horse Winner) Lyrics by David Rackoff, Music by Sahara Sunday Spain

Wonderland, Wonderland reprise (excerpt)

WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I’D STARE IN THE MIRROR,

AND ENVY THE BOY LOOKING OUT FROM THE GLASS.
HE WAS A PROPHET WHOSE VISION WAS CLEARER.
NOW ALL THAT HE TOLD ME IS COMING TO PASS.

A BEAUTIFUL GIANT WOULD CRIPPLE OUR LAND,
REQUIRING THE AID OF A SINGULAR MASCULINE HAND.

SEE THEM COMPARING THE SIZE OF THEIR PECKERS,
WHILE SQUATTING AROUND IN A POOL OF THEIR MESS.
THINKING THEY’RE SMART IN THEIR BATTLES OF CHECKERS,
WHILE UNDER THEIR NOSE IS A MAN PLAYING CHESS.

THE VISION I VISIONED FEELS MORE LIKE A PLAN.
THE BOY IN THE MIRROR LOOKS OUT FROM THE GLASS AT A MAN!
   Wonderland, Wonderland reprise - clip (from The Tyrant of Wonderland) Lyrics by David Rackoff, Music by Sahara Sunday Spain
  • Home
  • Nothing Like Broadway! (the musical)
  • Songs from Nothing Like Broadway!
  • Other Songs
    • This Is Our Land (from Genius Grant)
    • A Hundred Years from Now
    • This Is the Start of Something...
    • Nothing Like Broadway
    • The World's Most Famous Spy
    • If I Could Sing My Feelings (End of Act I)
    • In Another Universe
    • The Gods of the Theater
    • The Squeedle Song
    • You Only Love Me for My...
    • I'm in Love with a Pianist
    • What If There Were No More Villains?
    • The Racing Horse Winner
    • Swan Song
    • Sing Along
    • Surprisingly Similar Way to Me
    • A Day at the Fair
    • An Underwhelming Life
    • You Can't Have Too Much Christmas/I Can't Breathe (The Rocking Horse Winner Opening)
    • A Dream for Paul
    • BodyHair
    • Yell to the Heavens
  • Lyrics Can Have...
    • Wordplay
    • Euphony
    • Perfect Scansion
    • Story-telling
    • Rhymes
    • Musicality
    • Comedy
    • Imagery
  • About Me
  • Contact
  • Videos
  • Spain & Rackoff website