2007 Broadway Legally Blonde the Musical - What You Want Lyrics
The song is written by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.
ELLE (Spoken) Wait a sec! This is the kind of girl Warner wants! Someone serious! Someone lawyerly! Someone who wears black when nobody's dead! Girls, I have a completely brilliant plan!
(sung) What you want, Warner What you want is me But you need to see me in a brand new domain
Well it's plain, Warner In a different setting, you will see you're getting All of this plus a brain!
I'll meet you there at Harvard with a book in my hand Big sturdy book, big wordy book Full of words I'll understand And right there is where you'll see it too Warner, what you want is right in front of you!
GIRLS What you want
ELLE It's clear
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Right here
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you What you want
ELLE It's clear
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Right here
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
ELLE Step one, he's off to Harvard law So I get in there too
GIRLS Step two!
ELLE Make Warner reassess Impress him with my high IQ
GIRLS Step three!
ELLE We throw a great big wedding
ELLE and GIRLS And invite all Delta Nu!
ADVISOR (Spoken) That's great, nice plan. Now can we think this through? Harvard Law School?
ELLE (Spoken) I have a 4.0 average.
ADVISOR (Spoken) Yeah, in Fashion Merchandising. What makes you think you can do this?
ELLE Love! I'm doing this for love! And love will see me through Yes with love on my side, I can't lose And Harvard can't refuse A love so pure and true Don't lawyers feel love too?
ADVISOR (spoken)Even if they do . . .
(sung)What you want, sweetheart is no easy thing If you're going to swing it, It will wreck your senior spring, yeah it's true First, you'll need an LSAT score of more than 174 So no more parties for you
You'll need a killer essay, or do not even hope And glowing letters from your betters Any chance you know the pope? Oh, no? Too bad cause that would be a coup And you've got a lot of work in front of you
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Yes I know
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Even so
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
GIRLS What you want (Girl, you go!) What you want
ADVISOR (spoken) No, really, go!
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
FATHER (spoken) Law school?
ELLE (spoken) Yes, Daddy, law school!
FATHER (spoken) Good God, why? Law school is for boring, ugly, serious people! And you, Button, are none of those things.
(sung) What you want, Button, you just say the word! But what you want's absurd and costs a whole lot of swag And hell why? Button, when you can stay right here Pursue a film career
MOTHER How 'bout a nice burken bag?
FATHER Yes, the east coast is foreign There's no film studios It's cold and dark, no valet parking All the girls have different noses! Christ, BUtton! It's like the damned frontier
PARENTS Tell me what's out there that you can't get right here?
ELLE Guys, love!
PARENTS Love?
ELLE I'm going there for love
PARENTS Good God!
ELLE A love I have to win I can live without sun or valet I can't just walk away Betray what might have been
FATHER Fine, okay, I'll pay your way if you get in!
ALL What you want
PARENTS Make good grades
ALL What you want
PARENTS And it's paid
ALL What you want is right in front of you, front of you
SORORITY GIRL (spoken) Hey everybody, it's the spring fling beer bash extreme!
FRAT GUYS (spoken)EXTREME!
ADVISOR (spoken) Not for you! Time to study! Go!
SORORITY GIRL (spoken) This year's theme: Jamaican me crazy!!!
JAMAICAN VOICE What you want, you wanna be out because the sun is warm What you want, you wanna be study-stuck inside your dorm What you want, you wanna be partyin' with us all night long What you want, you wanna be strong
ADVISOR (spoken) Be strong!
ALL Oh-oh
ADVISOR (spoken) 134. Not good enough. Try again. Go!
JAMAICAN VOICE What you want, you wanna be groovin' up and shake the room What you want, you wanna be provin' something and to whom What you want, you wanna be wonderin' where you your youth has gone What you want, you wanna hold on
ELLE: Hold on!
ALL Oh-oh
ADVISOR (spoken) 151. Still not Harvard material. Once again. Go!
JAMAICAN VOICE What you want, you wanna be breathing in the healthy air What you want, you wanna be chasing him and he don't care What you want, you wanna ignore the pain of failure What you want, you wanna say sorry, go and hit the road What you want, you wanna . . . *fades out*
ELLE Love! I'm doing this for love! And that's how love survives! Here you go, I said no, go away! Right here is where I'll stay Until that happy day That day I hear them say . . .
ADVISOR 175
ANGELIC VOICES 175
ELLE 175!
ANGELIC VOICES 175, 175!!!
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) So, gentlemen, Harvard Law grants admission to Adam Cohen and Sandick Padamena. And now, Ms. Elle Woods, who was kind enough to send in a headshot.
OTHER PROFESSOR (spoken) We should admit her, for reasons of, um . . . multiculturalism!
PROFESSORS (spoken) Multiculturalism!
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) Oh gentlemen, please! Get a hold of yourselves! Oh, look at that! Oh, what a shame! She didn't bother sending in a personal essay!
SORORITY GIRL (spoken) How's this for a personal essay?
GIRLS What you want!
HARVARD PROFESSOR Goodness me!
GIRLS What you want!
HARVARD PROFESSOR Security!
GIRLS What you want is right in--
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) Who are you?
ELLE I'm what you want, Harvard I'm the girl for you!
ELLE and GIRLS And to prove it's true
ELLE We all flew here on Jet Blue
ELLE and GIRLS Thank you!
JET BLUE PILOT Thank you!
GIRLS This is what Elle Woods inspires Everyone admires her And Harvard should too!
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) This is NOT a personal essay!
GIRLS No, an essay's so boring and so much does not fit So we're appearing live, right here Making clear you must admit That Elle Woods should join the chosen few Harvard, what you want is right in front of--
ELLE May I approach!
GIRLS Uh-huh! Oh yeah! Go Elle!
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) Now see here, Ms. Woods! You can't just barge in here with singing and dancing and ethnic movement. This is a very flashy presentation, But I still don't see one reason to admit you!
ELLE How about love? Have you ever been in love? Cause if you have, you'll know That love never accepts a defeat No challenge it can't meet No place it cannot go Don't say no to a woman in love
Don't laugh when I say love Don't think that I'm naive Because even a person who's smart Can listen to their heart Can listen and believe So believe in what love can achieve
Do you believe?
PROFESSOR (spoken) I do!
ELLE Do you believe?
PROFESSOR (spoken) Me too!
ALL Yes, we believe in love! How 'bout you?
HARVARD PROFESSOR (spoken) Welcome to Harvard!
ALL (cheers) What you want What you want What you want is right in front of you, front of you What you want What you want What you want is right in front of you, front of you
What you want What you want What you want What you want!
Songs From The Musical Legally Blonde the Musical Lyrics What You Want Lyrics from Legally Blonde the musical
Legally Blonde the Musical Lyrics
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