Overture/You're the Top

At words poetic I'm so pathetic

That i always have found it best

Instead of getting 'em off my chest

To let them rest, unexpressed

I hate-parade my serenade

As I'll probably miss a bar

But if my ditty is not so pretty

At least it'll tell you how great you are

You're the top, you're the Coliseum

You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum

You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss

You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet

You're Mickey Mouse

You're the Nile, you're the Tower of Pisa

You're the smile on the Mona Lisa

I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop

But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top

Your words poetic are not pathetic

On the other hand, boy, you shine

And I can feel after every line

A thrill devine down my spine

Some critical meany like Tuscany

Might think that your song is bad

But I got a notion of second emotion

And this is what I'm going to add

You're the top, you're a silver dollar

You're the top, you're an arrow collar

You're the nimble tread off the feet of Fred Astaire

You're an O'neill drama, you're Whistler's manager

You're Camembert

You're the pearl, that the divers fetch up

Milton Berle and tomato ketchup

I'm a toy balloon that's fated soon to pop

But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

You're the top, you're a Caesar salad

Your the top, you're a Berlin ballad

You're the boy I'd swipe for the perfect type of mail

You're an old Dutch master, you're Lady Aster

You're Chippendale

You're a rose, you're Inferno's Dante

You're the nose on the Great Durante

I'm just in the way

As the French would say, "de trop"

But if, baby, I'm the bottom

But if, baby, I'm the bottom

But if, baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top

You're the top, you're a new invention

You're the top, you're the fourth dimension

You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain

You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary

You're cellophane

You're romance, you're the steps of Russia

You're the pants on a Roxy usher

I'm a broken doll, a fol-de-rol, a flop

But if, baby, I'm the bottom

You're the top!