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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Musically, the song borrows heavily from classical compositions such as Handel's Messiah. | |||
==Lyrics== | |||
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<poem>One night out under the stars | |||
One night out under the stars | |||
With Romeo and Juliet | |||
One night out under the stars | |||
One night out under the stars | |||
Have you seen this one yet? | |||
Shakespeare makes me happy | |||
Shakespeare makes me happy, so happy | |||
And I'm happy to be with you | |||
Shakespeare makes me happy | |||
Shakespeare makes me happy, so happy | |||
And I'm happy to be with you | |||
We may be garden variety | |||
But we can step inside of his immortal mind | |||
We get a wider view, some universal truth | |||
And when we step inside, that's when we realize | |||
This is your life, this is your life | |||
This is your life on opening night | |||
We lay down in the grass | |||
We lay down in the grass | |||
For Henry IV, Part 1 | |||
It feels so lovely to laugh | |||
It feels so lovely to cry | |||
Like a personal battle won | |||
Beatrice makes me happy | |||
Rosalind makes me happy, so happy | |||
And I'm happy to be with you | |||
Falstaff makes me happy | |||
Hamlet makes me happy, so happy | |||
And I'm happy to be with you | |||
We may be quite ordinary | |||
But we can step inside of his immortal mind | |||
We gain some empathy, some perspicacity | |||
It happens every time, he makes me want to write | |||
This is my life, this is my life | |||
This is my life on opening night</poem> | |||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||