No Way to Stop It

ELSE
You dear, attractive, dewey-eyed idealist
Today you have to learn to be a realist

MAX
You may be bent on doing deeds of derring-do
But up against a shark, what can a herring do?

ELSE
Be wise, compromise

MAX
Compromise and be wise

ELSE
Let them think you're on their side; be noncommittal

CAPTAIN
I will not bow my head to the men I despise

MAX
You don't have to bow your head, just stoop a little

ELSE
Why not learn to put your faith and your reliance
On an obvious and simple fact of science

A crazy planet full of crazy people
Is somersaulting all around the sky
And every time it turns another somersault
Another day goes by

And there's no way to stop it
No, there's no way to stop it
No, you can't stop it even if you try
So I'm not going to worry
No, I'm not going to worry
Every time I see another day go by

MAX
While somersaulting at a clockwise angle
We make a cockeyed circle 'round the sun
And when we circle back to where we started from
Another year has run

MAX AND ELSE
And there's no way to stop it
No there's no way to stop it
If the earth wants to roll around the sun
You're a fool if you worry
You're a fool if you worry
Over anything but little Number One

CAPTAIN
That's you

ELSE
That's I

MAX
And I

CAPTAIN
And me
That all-absorbing character

ELSE
That fascinating creature

MAX
That super-special feature

MAX AND ELSE
Me

CAPTAIN
So every star and every whirling planet
And every constellation in the sky
Revolves around the center of the universe
An ugly thing called I

ALL THREE
And there's no way to stop it
No, there's no way to stop it
And I know, though I cannot tell you why
That as long as I'm living
Just as long as I'm living
There is nothing else as wonderful as

ELSE
I

ALL
I, I, I
Nothing else as wonderful as I

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