#yeah I know Jersey Boys is a jukebox don't at me

[strawberry-jackalope]

romcoms are good and all, but musicals just have a little more oomph when it comes to the declaration or devotion

[blondrichclosetwitch]

I think they've gathered here for me

You are beside me

I am beside you where something is meant to be

Prison can’t hold all this greedy intention

And so _______ calls the cops And they arrive on the scene

With their red lights flashin' in the hot

New Jersey night

He could identify the guilty

"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"

The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance

Guess who testified*

Yes, that's the story of the Hurricane

The gooder they come, the harder they fall

Turn around you are a nasty joke, oh yeah

Get your heart beatin' baby

That's all I ever get from your family ties

Take your little brother swimming

They can't understand it, I'm just a Peace lovin' guy

You know how sometimes you're so tired of the country you could run to the ocean till there's nothing but sky

Blows the cover of lies but in the same breath your heart breaks

That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song

it won't be long til summer comes, now that the boys are here again

It's no secret that I left you and still I don't know why

We were stuck in a sad song

Only you can make me do what I don't usually do

So don't treat me like a puppet on a string cause I know how to do my thing

You said you wanted to feel alive so we went to the beach

When you don't know who you are you fuck around and find out

I can't hide from you like I hide from myself

I'm tryna protect myself but only you know how to

Thank you, thank you, I'm okay cause you care, I made it through today

Never will forget I came

We all laugh oh, hah, what a gas!—watching you chew on the bones; in the morning light you didn't look so nice

Now, John, at the bar is a friend of mine. He says, Bill, I believe this is killing me.

And the waitress is practicing politics

They say he's sick, he’s obscene 

I got no friends 'cause they read the papers

Let me tell you about the other side

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Just this side of love is where you'll find the confidence not to continue

It’s up to us to break the cycle

Every step we take from here is vital

You and your girl, things could be pretty

But underneath this there is a secret that nobody can reveal

On Fire Island……

Mommy never laughed when the joke wasn't funny

If someone asked me to describe her I'd recall everything

Where do my parents end and where do I begin?

Daddy always worked hard

He didn't sleep much

Daddy always wanted everyone to like him

I think I'm just like him

Things like that drive me out of my mind

"At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear"

Baby Borderline

Throw!, away your troubles, baby, dream a dream of me.

You need a big God

Shower your affection, let it rain on me and pull down the mountain, drag your cities to the sea

Coincide with the air, fall in love with the sea

A doom is awaiting unless we undo our damage

I love my baby and my baby loves me

I passed the streets where I lived for 10 years when I saw ya by the river

We walked the beach and You reached for my hand

This is unconditional love

And the moral of the story, I can testify

Cause there's nothing quite like

The blinding light

That curtains cast aside,

And no attempt is made to explain away

Things that really, really, really really really are behind.

You can't hide...