My Strongest Suit

Amneris
In life one has to face a huge assortment
Of nauseating fads and good advice
There's health and fitness
Diet and deportment

And other pointless forms of sacrifice
Conversation? Wit? I am a doubter
Manners? Charm?
They're no way to impress
So forget the inner me, observe the outer
I am what I wear and how I dress

Oh now I believe in looking
Like my time on earth is cooking
Whether polka-dotted
Striped or even checked
With the some glamour guaranteeing
Every fiber on of my being
Is displayed to quite remarkable effect

From your cradle via trousseau
To your deathbed you're on view, so
Never compromise, accept no substitute
I would rather wear a barrel
Than conservative apparel
For my dress has always been
My strongest suit



Staying in or hitting townwards
From the top and working downwards
I ensure that every stitch
Is stitched in time

Whether wig or hat or turban
Whether clad boudoir or urban
Not to strut your stuff
Outrageously’s a crime

And the few who are invited
To my wardrobe are delighted
As they wander through my things
To find en route

That in negligee or formal
I am anything but normal

For my dress has always been
My strongest suit

I am what I wear


I said anytime

Anywhere

So bring me all my finest
Most audacious my divinest
Most revealing,
Most expensive and to boot

Most arresting

Most heart-stopping
Most free-flowing
Most eye-popping
Most arresting
Most heart-stopping

Dress has always been
My strongest suit

My strongest suit

You know that
I am what I wear
Dress has always been
My strongest suit

So bring me all my finest
Most audacious my divinest
Most revealing,
Most expensive and to boot

Most arresting

Most heart-stopping
Most free-flowing
Most eye-popping
Most arresting
Most heart-stopping
Dress has always been
My strongest suit

My strongest suit

You know that
I am what I wear

Dress has always been
My strongest
My strongest
My strongest
My stroooooooongest suit

My strongest suit







Women
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Overwear
Underwear
Anytime
Anywhere

Ooh ooh ooh ah
Ooh ooh ooh ah
Ooh ooh ooh ah

Is stitched in time
Ooh ooh ooh ah
Ooh ooh ooh ah
Ooh ooh ooh ah

Such a crime

Oooh overwear
Oooh underwear
Oooh anytime
We’re wandering through
Your things
Ooh negligee
Ooh anything but
Normal normal

Ooh ah


Overwear, underwear
Anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear
Anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear
Anytime, anywhere
Overwear, underwear
Anytime

Finest
Divinest

Most revealing most
Expensive
Most arresting

Most heart-stopping
Most heart-stopping
Overwear
Underwear
Anytime
Anywhere

Dress has always been

I am what I wear

I am what I wear

I am what I wear
Dress has always been
My strongest suit

Finest
Divinest

Most revealing most
Expensive
Most arresting

Most heart-stopping
Most heart-stopping
Overwear
Underwear
Anytime
Anywhere
Dress has always been

I am what I wear

I am what I wear

I am what I wear

Dress has always been
My strongest
My strongest
My strongest suit

My strongest
My strongest
My strongest suit





© Tim Rice and Elton John