My Favorite Love Story Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Maybe Happy Ending the Musical - My Favorite Love Story Lyrics

Music & Lyrics by Will Aronson & Hue Park.

OLIVER: (spoken)
Where did we meet?
How did we fall in love?
What are our hopes and dreams?

CLAIRE: (spoken)
You really think the motel clerk is going
to ask us about our hopes and dreams?

OLIVER: (spoken)
That's what humans talk about.
So where did we meet?

CLAIRE: (spoken)
On the street?

OLIVER: (spoken)
Yes!

It was a rainy day.
You forgot your umbrella,
So you ran under mine!

CLAIRE: (spoken)
I initiated this?

OLIVER: (spoken)
The rain made us feel melancholy,
But also romantic as we walked on the rainy streets.

CLAIRE: (spoken)
In...Paris!

OLIVER: (sung)
New York set the perfect
Mood on the day we met

CLAIRE: (spoken)
You're so annoying!

OLIVER:
The patter of rain
And somewhere a jazz quartet

CLAIRE: (spoken)
They were playing in the rain?

OLIVER: (spoken)
They were inside.

CLAIRE: (spoken)
So we were inside?

OLIVER: (spoken)
You were outside.

My umbrella could handle two
I even kept your shoulder dry
And since we both were shy
We barely spoke at all

CLAIRE: (spoken)
Is this from a musical?

OLIVER:
You wore a bright red raincoat that magic day

CLAIRE:
No way would I choose red for a raincoat!

OLIVER:
Your beautiful red fur hat took my breath away

CLAIRE:
I think it wasn't me,
But Santa!

OLIVER:
The crowded and noisy streets
Were silent except our beating hearts
It's all those quiet parts
You later can't forget
All on one rainy day

BOTH:
The rainy day we met

OLIVER: (spoken)
Your turn!

CLAIRE:
Your stared at your feet,
Too nervous to say one word

OLIVER: (spoken)
What could I have said
in that situation?

CLAIRE:
Our beautiful silence started
To feel absurd.

OLIVER: (spoken)
Don't forget,
I did offer you my umbrella...

CLAIRE: (spoken)
Shhh!

So then in a breathless rush
We both started talking awkwardly

BOTH: (spoken)
How long have you...
So where have you...
Why don't you go fir...

*Both laugh*

CLAIRE:
We laughed so hard
That we forgot our socks were wet

BOTH:
All on a rainy day
The rainy day we met

OLIVER:
That old-timey band
When I first held your hand
And we danced in the subway

CLAIRE:
The busses we missed
On the first night we kissed
On that street in Paris

OLIVER:
New York!

CLAIRE:
Paris!

OLIVER:
The moment our game demanded a name
And love's what we called it

CLAIRE:
The morning we tried waking up side by side
And knew it was meant to be

OLIVER:
It seemed to me

BOTH:
The crowded and noisy world
Was silent except our beating hearts
It's all those quiet parts
You later can't forget.

Thanks to one rainy day
The rainy day we met.

Anyway, that's how we met.

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