Why Am I So Single - Why Am I So Single? Lyrics

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Why Am I So Single? the Musical - Why Am I So Single? Lyrics


The song is written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss.

OLIVER: (spoken)
So, tell me, what actually happened?

NANCY: (spoken)
So I matched with this guy on Hinge
We start chatting and suddenly I'm like, 
"Oh shit, I recognise that company name
That's where The Ex works

OLIVER: (spoken)
And just to confirm, this is 'The Ex'?

NANCY: (spoken)
Yeah, 'The Ex'
So I'm like, "Ooh do I really want to go
For a drink with someone who may,
In fact currently be sharing desk space
With the 'one that got away'?"
And I'm like, "Yes, of course"

OLIVER: (spoken)
Yeah, like obviously

NANCY: (spoken)
Yeah cause like,
What could possibly go wrong?

OLIVER: (spoken)
Well?

NANCY:
So it's like any other date

OLIVER:
So you're charming and you're grеat

NANCY:
Yes, I've hidden all my flaws,
But strap in
Bеcause it's going well,
I'm thinking, "What the hell?
I'll ask about my ex,
What's the worst thing
That could happen?"

OLIVER:
No don't tell me ahh

NANCY, OLIVER:
Yes, he's moving out
To Paris with a girlfriend
What?
Which shocked me
So naturally I cried,
My date was terrified
And said, "Hey, let's be friends"
But now I'm pretty sure he's blocked me

NANCY:
What sucks though, is I know
The Ex is out there practicing Français
Meanwhile I'm sat here in your flat
Back here with you listening to me say

Why am I so single?
Why am I so alone?
I'm so ready to mingle
I don't get it
Why am I so single?
My bed's more barren
Than the backyard of Kris Kringle

OLIVER:
I don't get it

NANCY:
Just forget it

And I think I'm a decent catch
But every time I find a match
No matter what I do
I end up sitting here sinking
My troubles in a drink
In your flat still thinking
Why am I so single?

OLIVER: (spoken)
Okay, let's stop this moping
And go out on the town

NANCY: (spoken)
No, I'm too sad and alone

OLIVER: (spoken)
Come on, we'll paint it red baby
Redder than your puffy eyes

NANCY: (spoken)
Great, thanks for that

OLIVER: (spoken)
Ooh I know,
Let's go away together again
On another writing retreat
Bash out the musical we've got to do

NANCY: (spoken)
I'd love to but I've got a very busy schedule
Of weeping to keep up with
So unfortunately I won't be able-

OLIVER: (spoken)
Oh my God, come on
No, no, no, no, shut up,
It'll be so fun
Remember last time?

(sung)
We got that little countryside Airbnb
I'd make you breakfast at the AGA

NANCY: (spoken)
Oh yeah!

OLIVER:
And on the night the rain poured,
I sat with you and endured

NANCY & OLIVER:
All five feature films in the Twilight Saga

OLIVER:
Jacob showed his torso more
And more and more
So I quietly opened Grindr
But the app was an abyss,
So while you stayed to watch them kiss
I went to bed
And had my own happy ending, kinda

NANCY: (spoken)
Wait, what?

OLIVER:
Actually wow, hearing that now
Makes it sound like I'm some rejectee

NANCY: (spoken)
But no, that's me

OLIVER: (spoken)
Yeah, cause

(sung)
For that to be true
I would need to
Have had an actual boyfriend
To dump me, ha ha ha ha!

OLIVER & ENSEMBLE:
Why am I so single?
(Why, why, why, why?)
Why am I so alone?
I'm so ready to mingle
(They're so ready)
I don't get it
Why am I so single?
(Why, why, why, why?)
They say, "Go get 'em Tiger"
But I'm no Bengal

OLIVER: (spoken)
Rawr! Like the jungle cat

NANCY:
Thanks, we get it

OLIVER:
Shall we duet it?

NANCY: (spoken)
Sure

NANCY & OLIVER:
I know I'm a fucking ten,
But when I'm out there f– dating men

OLIVER:
No matter what I do

NANCY:
No matter what we do

OLIVER:
I end up sitting here sinking
My troubles in a drink
In my flat still thinking
Why am I so single?

NANCY: (spoken)
So we poured ourselves another glass,
Chatted more
But don't worry,
We didn't lose our composure at all

OLIVER:
You're so nice

NANCY:
You're so nice

NANCY & OLIVER:
Both of us are just so very nice
And handsome

NANCY:
We are well read

OLIVER:
Good at giving advice

NANCY, OLIVER & ENSEMBLE:
We're sexually healthy
And adequately wealthy
So what the fucking hell is going on?
(What the fuck is going on?)

OLIVER:
Why am I–

NANCY & ENSEMBLE:
Why am I so single?
(Why, why, why, why?)
I'm trying hard to score
But I'm stuck in goal
I don't get it

OLIVER & ENSEMBLE:
Why am I so single?
(Why, why, why, why?)
The only thing I'm eating out
Is this tube of Pringles

OLIVER: (spoken)
He doesn't get it

NANCY & ENSEMBLE:
Why am I so single?
(Why, why, why, why?)
Anne's off getting laid
But I'm the other Boleyn girl

NANCY: (spoken)
I never get it

OLIVER & ENSEMBLE:
Why am I so single? (Why?)
It's like they're singing
"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi"
But I'm not bilingual (Not bilingual)
Je ne comp prom pas

NANCY & OLIVER:
Pourquoi je sui so single

OLIVER:
Oh!

(spoken)
Yeah, maybe this is why actually

NANCY: (spoken)
Yeah, probably, yeah



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