Cabaret Soundtrack Perfectly Marvelous Lyrics

Perfectly Marvelous Lyrics

SALLY BOWLES:

 If anyone should ask you about me one day, Cliff, you have two alternatives

 You can either say, yes it's true, we're living in delicious sin, or you
can

 Simply tell them the truth and say,

 I met this perfectly marvelous girl,

 In this perfectly wonderful place,

 As I lifted the glass to the start of this marvelous year

 Before you knew would she call on the phone inviting

 Next moment I was no longer alone, but set reciting 

 Some perfectly beautiful buzz

 In my charming American style 

 How I dazzled the senses with truly no less than a guile 

 Now I've this perfectly marvelous girl

 In my perfectly beautiful room

 And we're living together and having a marvelous time... 

 CLIFF:

 Oh, Sally, I'm afraid it wouldn't work.

 You're much too distracting.

 SALLY:

 Distracting? No, inspiring!

 She tells me perfectly marvelous tales

 Of her prettily scandalous life

 Which I'll probably use 

 As a chapter or two in my book

 and since my stay in Berlin was to force creation

 What luck to fall on a fabulous source of stimulation

 That perfectly marvelous tool

 Is a perfect dream to be

 Just as still as a mouse fall

 I'm giving my novel a word

 Yes, I've the highly agreeable life

 In my perfectly beautiful room

 With my nearly invisible

 Perfectly marvelous girl.

 CLIFF:

 I met this truly remarkable girl

 In this really incredible town

 And she still fully managed to 

 Talk away into my room

 SALLY:

 Oh, Cliff!

 CLIFF:

 I have a terrible feeling I said a dumb thing

 Besides I've only got one narrow bed...

 SALLY:

 We'll think of something!

 CLIFF:

 And now this wild unpredictable girl

 SALLY:

 And this perfectly beautiful man

 BOTH:

 We'll be living together

 And having a marvelous time!