Dancing Through Life

The trouble with school is They always try to teach the wrong lesson Believe me I've been kicked out Of enough of them to know They want you to become less callow Less shallow But I say why invite stress in Stop studying strife And learn to live the unexamined life Dancing through life Skimming the surface Gliding where turf is smooth Life's more painless For the brainless Why think too hard When it's so soothing Dancing through life No need to tough it When you can sluff it off as I do Nothing matters But knowing nothing matters It's just life So keep dancing through Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is fraughtless When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life So what's the most swankified place in town That would be the Ozdust Ballroom Sounds perfect Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom We'll meet there later tonight We can dance till it's light Find the prettiest girl Give 'er a whirl Right on down to the Ozdust Ballroom Come on follow me You'll be happy to be there Dancing through life Down at the Ozdust If only because dust Is what we come to Nothing matters But knowing nothing matters It's just life So keep dancing through I hope you'll save at least one dance for me I'll be right there Waiting Allnight Oh that's so kind But you know what would be even kinder See that tragic'ly beautiful girl The one in the chair It seems so unfair We should go on a spree And not she I know someone would be my hero If that someone were to go invite her Well maybe I could invite her Oh Bick really You would do that for me I would do anything for you Miss So So I'll be picking you up around eight After all Now that we've met one another It's clear we deserve each other You're perfect You're perfect So we're perfect together Born to be forever Dancing through life Oh Elphaba isn't it wonderful Fin'lly for this one night I'm about to have a fun night With this Munchkin boy found for me And I only wish there were Something I could do for her To repay her Elphaba see We deserve each other And helped it come true We deserve each other Me and Elphaba please try to understand I do my sister and I were talking about you just now And I was just talking about you I thought you might want to wear this hat to the party tonight It's really uh sharp don't you think You know black is this year's pink You deserve each other This hat and you You're both so smart You deserve each other So here out of the goodness of my heart Listen Nessa Yes Uh Nessa I've got something to confess a Reason why well Why I asked you here tonight Now I know it isn't fair Oh I know why You do It's because I'm in this chair And you felt sorry for me Well isn't that right No No It's because because Because you are so beautiful Oh I think you're wonderful And we deserve each other Don't you see this is our chance We deserve each other Don't we You know what Let's dance What Let's dance Dancing through life Down at the Ozdust If only because dust Is what we come to And the strange thing Your life could end up changing While you're dancing Through