Groundhog Day Musical Soundtrack Album Lyrics

[Instrumental]

I was born in a Puxatawney dawn
At sunrise on a summer's day
And I learnt me a saying that folks round here always say

Who can curse, cast spells or cry
Offer your prayers to the unfeeling sky
Spring will arrive when the winter is done
And if it's not tomorrow then tomorrow or tomorrow there will be sun

Tomorrow spring will come and then
There will be blue skies my friend
Bright eyes and laughter

Tomorrow there will be sun
But if not tomorrow perhaps the day after

Oh if I could I'd will these clouds away my love
I'd wave my hand, reveal the stars

Oh if I could I'd hold the tide at bay my love
But clouds will come and tides will turn

Tomorrow spring will come and then
There will be blue skies my friend
Bright eyes and laughter

Tomorrow there will be sun
But if not tomorrow, perhaps the day af...

[Phone]
Good morning, this is your wake up call

[RADIO DJ #1]
Nothing! But we love it

[PHIL]
Thank you

[RADIO DJ #2]
Love it! I loves me sound groundhog

[Phone]
Happy Groundhog Day

[PHIL]
Yeah, happy Groundhog Day.

[RADIO DJ #1]
By the way, that's a great hat you're wearing
[RADIO DJ #2]
Thanks! I made it myself!

[PHIL]
Lumpy bed, ugly curtains
Pointless erection

[RADIO DJ #1]
Now, is that supposed to be a hollow log?
[RADIO DJ #2]
On my head!
[RADIO DJ #1]
I hope it's warm enough
[RADIO DJ #2]
Yes, it's very important to wear a warm hat
[RADIO DJ #1]
You know, there's talk of a blizzard
[RADIO DJ #2]
Well, it's cold enough
[RADIO DJ #1]
How cold would you say it is?
[RADIO DJ #2]
Oh, I'm no good at science

[PHIL]
Dried flowers, damp towels
No reception

[RADIO DJ #2]
Doesn't matter how cold it is, it's how cold you feel
[RADIO DJ #1]
You know, you lose up to eighty percent of your body heat through your head?
[RADIO DJ #2]
True fact! I learned that in high school

[PHIL]
Small towns, tiny minds
Big mouths, small ideas

[RADIO DJ #1]
Gooooo Chucks!

[PHIL]
Shallow talk, deep snow
Cold fronts, big rears

[RADIO DJ #1]
Let's change the subject. Now, how cold was it last year?
[RADIO DJ #2]
In degrees?
[RADIO DJ #1]
I heard they don't even use degrees in Europe
[RADIO DJ #2]
That's a good point
[RADIO DJ #1]
Great point
[RADIO DJ #2]
Lotta mysteries out there
[RADIO DJ #1]
Yeah, stuff we just don't understand no matter how much we read

[PHIL]
One bar, one store, one clock

[RADIO DJ #2]
The great mysteries of the universe

[PHIL]
One diner, one bank, one cop

[RADIO DJ #1]
Mysterious things. But right now, the question on everyone's lips

[RADIO DJ #2]
Chapped lips

[RADIO DJ #1]
Do you think Phil will see his shadow? What's your prediction?

[PHIL]
I mean, what's not to like in a quaint little place like this?
Who doesn't dig a crocheted pillowcase like this?
Watercolors of bucolic vistas
Painted by octogenarian spinsters
And all of the people just getting together
For relentless analysis of the weather
Their dumb superstitions and vacuous chat
I'm sure there was a pack of Xanax in this jacket
You couldn't pay me to stay here one more night
Swear that there is no check you could write that might
Tempt me to stay and wake up in the morning in

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney

[PHIL]
There's nothing more depressing than
Small Town U.S.A.
And small don't come much smaller than
Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day
[PHIL]
There's nothing more
Depressing than
Small Town U.S.A.
And small don't come much smaller than
Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney
Pennsylvania
U.S.A
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh

Punxsutawney on Groundhog Day
[PHIL]
There's nothing more depressing than
Small Town U.S.A.
And there is no town smaller
Punxsutawney on Groundhog

There's nothing more depressing than
Small Town U.S.A.
And there is no town smaller than

Punxsutawney on
Punxsutawney on
Punxsutawney on

Just kill me now
[TOWNSPEOPLE]

As any small town
In the U.S.A.
There is no town greater than
Punxsutawney

A heart as big as any town
As any small town
In the U.S.A.
And there is no town greater than

Punxsutawney on
Punxsutawney on
Punxsutawney on
Groundhog

Day!

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Tomorrow, spring will come, and then
There will be blue skies, my friend
Bright eyes and laughter
Tomorrow, there will be sun
But if not tomorrow
Perhaps the day aaaaa-

[Alarm Clock]
Who is that?
Who is that?
Emerging from his burrow?
Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?
Shaman of the shadows
[RADIO DJ #1]
Springer of the spring
Come on
[RADIO DJ #1]
Is it a squirrel?
Is it a beaver?
[RADIO DJ #1]
Kinda both
[RADIO DJ #1]
But not quite either!
[RADIO DJ #1]
That's right, woodchuck-chuckers, it's
[RADIO DJ #1]
Groundhog Day!
[RADIO DJ #1]
We're here live from Gobbler's Knob talking about everything!

[PHIL CONNORS]
Idiots

[PHIL]
I didn't set a wake up call

[Phone]
Happy Groundhog Day!

[PHIL]
Happy Groundho-

[RADIO DJ #1]
There's talk of a blizzard, how cold would you say it is?

[PHIL]
How many days is this holiday?

[RADIO DJ #2]
Oh, I'm no good at science
Haha
[RADIO DJ #1]
You know, you lose up to eighty percent of your body heat through your head?

[PHIL]
Blah blah blah blah blah blah-blah blah-blah
You're so fired

[RADIO DJ #1]
..have a good education?
[RADIO DJ #2]
Punxsutawney High!
[RADIO DJ #1]
Gooooo Chucks!

[PHIL]
Go Penn State!

[RADIO DJ #2]
Oh, I'm still hungover

[PHIL]
God damn amateurs

[RADIO DJ #1]
But right now, the question on everyone's lips

[PHIL & DJ #2]
Chapped lips

[RADIO DJ #1]
Do you think Phil will see his shadow?

[PHIL]
Yes he did

[RADIO DJ #1]
What's your prediction?

[PHIL]
I predict your unemployment

[RADIO DJ #2]
I predict a whole day of celebration!

[PHIL]
There's nothing more depressing than
Small towns

[RADIO DJ #1]
People come back year after year

[PHIL]
Tiny minds
I'll tell Larry
To take the 210 via Beyer and Keystone Lake
If we hurry
I'll be drinking decent coffee by nine or even half past eight
And never again will I wake in the morning in
Punx

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney

[PHIL & TOWNSPEOPLE]
Ba-da-bup-bup-ba

[PHIL]
Suck my balls, I'm out!

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney
Pennsylvania
USA
Aaaaaaahhh

[PHIL]
Okay
One: I'm still sleeping and this, I'm just dreaming it
Two: it's a prank and everyone's in on it
Three: it's a flashback from when I was twenty and
Ate magic mushrooms and thought I was Aquaman
Four: it's some kind of reality show about
Forecasters, bad bed and breakfasts, and snow
Five: I've had a stroke and lost my memory
Of the year since last Groundhog Day
Come on, Phil, wake up
Get it together
It must be the weather

[PHIL]
It must be the stress
I just need a moment, I just need a rest
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney
Is a little town
With a heart as big as any town

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
As any small town in the USA
And there is no town greater than
Punxsutawney on Groundhog
Groundhog
Groundhog

Who is that?
Who is that?
Emerging from his burrow?
Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?
Shaman of the shadows
Springer of the spring
Is it a squirrel?
Is it a beaver?

[BUSTER]
Kinda both
But not quite either!

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
All the meteorologists
The world has ever known
Cannot match this little guy's uncanny skill
We can guess but we won't know
If we should dress for sun or snow
Until we hear it from Punxsutawney Phil

[PHIL]
I'm going back to bed!

[RITA HANSON]
February 2nd
First remote broadcast
GHD in Punx, PA
Working with Phil Connors
They all told me he would be an asshole
And he is
I mean he acts kinda asshole-ish still
I think he might be
Mentally ill

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Tomorrow
Spring will come, and then
There will be blue skies, my friend
Bright eyes and laughter

[RITA]
Unexpected weather
Seems we're staying here for another night
Which is kinda fine
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Tomorrow
There will be sun
And if not tomorrow, perhaps the day aaa-

[Alarm Clock]
Who is that?
Who is that?
Emerging from his burrow?
Who can see today what we won't see until tomorrow?
Shaman of the shadows
[RADIO DJ #1]
Springer of the spring
Come on
[RADIO DJ #1]
Is it a squirrel?
Is it a beaver?
[RADIO DJ #1]
Kinda both
[RADIO DJ #1]
But not quite either!
[RADIO DJ #1]
That's right, woodchuck-chuckers, it's
[RADIO DJ #1]
Groundhog Day!
[RADIO DJ #1]
We're here live

[PHIL CONNORS]
No..

[RADIO DJ #1]
From Gobbler's Knob

[PHIL]
No..

[RADIO DJ #1]
Talking about

[PHIL]
No..

[RADIO DJ #1]
Everything! Weather..

[PHIL]
No!

[RADIO DJ #2]
Predictions
[RADIO DJ #1]
Temperature
[RADIO DJ #2]
The weather..
[RADIO DJ #1]
It's just nuts!

[PHIL]
Don't ring

[RADIO DJ #2]
Totally wacky!

[PHIL]
Do not ring
Do not..

[RADIO DJ #1]
That's our town on February 2nd
By the way, that's a great hat you're wearing

[PHIL]
What the hell's happening?

[RADIO DJ #2]
Thanks! I made it myself
[RADIO DJ #1]
There's talk of a blizzard
[RADIO DJ #2]
Well it's cold enough

[PHIL]
God damn..

[RADIO DJ #1]
You know, you lose up to eighty percent of your body heat through your head?
[RADIO DJ #1]
Gooooo Chucks!
[RADIO DJ #1]
Ha, that was a good time
[RADIO DJ #2]
Oh, I'm still hungover
[RADIO DJ #1]
But right now, the question on everyone's lips

[PHIL]
Help me
Okay
No, no, no

[RADIO DJ #2]
Chapped lips

[PHIL]
I can figure this out
Figure it out, come on

[RADIO DJ #1]
Do you think Phil will see his shadow? What's your prediction?

[RADIO DJ #2]
I predict a whole day of celebration!

[PHIL]
What the hell is happening?

[RADIO DJ #1]
I guess we're going to have to wait for Punxsutawney Phil, so stay tuned

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Punxsutawney..

[PHIL]
Oh my God

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Phil! Phil!

[PHIL]
Oh God

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil!

[PHIL]
What the hell?

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil!

[PHIL]
Help me!
Hello?
Hello?
Can anybody help me?

I have a degree (That's nice)
In alternative therapy (Okay)
Took an online course for a week or two (Maybe we should-)
I think we should begin with a nice bit of Reiki (Reiki?)
Unblock your chi (What's chi?)
It's dooby-dooby tralala
It's holistic therapy (what does that mean?)
It's energy
Vibrations and something magnets
And doopy-didd?)ly pa-pa-pa
Now piss (what?), piss (I just-), piss into this (I don't have any-)
I'll analyse your isotopes and something something quantum quantum
(I'm stuck, I'm just-)
I think you're allergic to gluten
(Stuck. I'm, it's like I feel like I'm trapped in a loop)
(Like I'm stuck in time)
Well I think cutting out gluten (I'm-) is the smartest solution (Fine)
Better a diet of soup (Soup?)
Made of rhino foreskin
(I think I've lost my mind)
(I can't seem to find my way out of-)
An enema (what?), would you like an enema?
(Existentially I'm-)
Some essential oils
(Essentially I'm-)
Organic teas?
(Who needs enemas with friends like-)
I don't even know if I believe what I'm saying
This guy is clearly nuts but he is desperate and he's paying
Statistically he might as well be sitting home and praying
For all the good that I can do, I don't have a fricking clue what I'm doing
Though there are things that we just don't know
It doesn't mean you shouldn't give giving an answer a go
Now open your buttocks a wee bit
(I'm not sure how this will help)
I just want to get to the bottom of it
(I'm stuck. I'm just stuck)
I have a PhD (Finally!)
In psychiatric pharmacology
I specialize in mental illness... (Good!)
In cows (wha?)
Let's treat your depression with a course of fluoxetol
(I'm not depressed)
You're not?
(No!)
You must be delusional, so take some acepromazine and a couple of procaprimine
And quietly I'd advise ya, to try this tranquiliser
Although maybe you should just take half (okay)
It says whole ones for cows (I'm not a-)
And half for calves (right.)
I don't even know if I believe what I'm saying
This guy is clearly nuts but he is desperate and he's paying
Statistically he might as well be sitting home and praying
For all the good that I can do, I don't have a fricking clue
In my medicine cupboard
There's a bunch of L.Ron Hubbard
[There are only twelve steps and they shouldn't take long]
We just need a sample of your stool and your semen
You have Satan within you
We must exorcise your demons
Take this pill
Read this book
Eat your vegetables uncooked
It's your karma
It's just toxins
It's for constipated oxens
Well that oughta loosen you up
(I am stuuuck... f*ck okay)

(One I'm still sleeping and this I'm just dreaming it, two it's a prank
And everyone's in on it, three it's a flashback from when I was twenty
And ate magic mushrooms and thought I was Aquaman,
Four it's some kind of reality show, five it's amnesia, six it's a stroke!)

(I think I am losing my mind)

That'll be 500 bucks!
(What the fu-)
A cheque is fine!
(Fine)

Karma!
Toxins!
Enema!
Oxen!
Jesus!

I wake up hung over
I go to bed smashed
Like an alcoholic hamster
On one of them little wheelie things

Every evening the same
Every morning the pain
I start drinking at 10
And by noon I'm not feeling things

And nobody cares what I'm talking about
(Oh shit I just gone thrown up in my mouth)
Just swallow it man
Just swallow it
Your opinions or your vomit
Either way they don't want it

(What's your point, what is your point)
And I think I had a point there
But the point is it don't matter
Cause it's pointless having points anyway, cause

Nobody cares what I say
Nobody cares what I do
What's the point of bothering if no-one else is bothered
I was born in this town and I'm gonna die here too

I wake with a headache
I take a piss I often miss
I often get a little bit on the floor

I eat a piece of toast
That I found toasted in the toaster
Then I goes to get my jacket by the rack by the back door

And then I get into my truck
I drive a block to Ralphy's shop
It's always shut he picks me up
And drives us up to running rock (?)

And shoot some cans and crack some cans
And shoot the breeze about the weather
Or a sports team or a car
And after that the bar

Nobody cares what I say
Nobody cares what I do
What's the point of bothering if no-one else is bothered
I was born in this town and I'm gonna die here too

I wake with a headache
I take a piss I often miss
I often get a little bit on the floor

I sometimes try to clean
The mess I makes from my mistakes
But for whose sakes
Am I making all this 'F'ing effort for

I wake up each morning
In the same damn day
There seems to be jack shit
That I can do or say
I've got no voice I've got no vote
I've got no way to change a goddamn thing

(I think that's the pigs)
Who gives a fig

Nobody cares what I do
Nobody cares about my life
Utterly uninfluential
No regrets and no potential
Every turn inconsequential
Yeehaw let's drive

Nobody cares what I say
Nobody cares about my life
Utterly uninstrumental
No insurance, no intent
(Well actually, I've got dental)
Ok well that's nice

And I'm not sure what the point is
But the point is it don't matter
Point is it don't matter, cause

Nobody cares what I do
Nobody cares about my life
Utterly uninfluential
No regrets and no potential
Every turn inconsequential

And I'm not sure what the point is
But the point is it don't matter
Not sure what the point is
Point is it don't matter cause

Nobody cares what I do
Nobody cares about my life
Utterly uninfluential
No regrets and no potential
Every turn inconsequential

Utterly repercussion free
(Though arguably not for that tree)
(I think I pooped my dungaree)

No consequence at all

ALARM CLOCK
Who is that?
Who is that?
Emerging from...
Emerging from...
Emerging from...

PHIL CONNORS
Yeeeaaah...
I can do whatever I want!
Hahaha!

ENSEMBLE
Who is that?

PHIL
That's right
Aw yeah!
Look out now

ENSEMBLE
Who is that?
Emerging from his burrow
Who can see?
Is it a beaver?

PHIL
Haha..

ENSEMBLE
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

PHIL
Hey hey hey

ENSEMBLE
USA and there is no town greater than
Punxsutawney on Grounghog Day
There is no town greater than
Punxsutawney

PHIL
Yeah
Yeah
Mmmm...

ENSEMBLE
Punxsutawney
Is a little town
With a heart as big as any town
There's no town greater than
Punxsutawney on Groundhog..

PHIL
Oooohhh, woah!

A gust of wind...
A dog barks...
Hey Wilbur!
Hey, Jack
Car...
Clock...
Three, two, one...

ENSEMBLE
Philip of Punxsutawney
Aaahhh

PHIL
Ooh, yeah
Ow!
Get funky
It's hot
Oh yeah

RITA:
I was brought up in tafetta dresses
And taught to be pretty and precious
Spending my playtimes with plastic princesses
Who all had bodies just utterly ludicrous
Miniscual waists and huge boobs
And it's all nippless and no creases
I mean Jesus it's pretty confusing
Especially at 6.

In that fairytale world all the girls end up happy ever after.
Wooing their knights in shining armour.
But some nights down the track
You can bet they'll be trapped
Spending nights 'n shining armour.

While their knights spend their nights at the bar
Or at a ball with some harlot
I'm not bitter it's just better
That I don't fall for all that romantic bullshit
Now that I'm older.
Though I don't mind the thought of being tossed over a shoulder
And trotted off to a mansion by some ruggedly handsome man in a fireman helmet
And have him just use me for sex.
As I say - it's a little complex.

One day, some day
My prince may come
But it doesn't seem likely
But even if he came and he liked me
It's likely he'd be not quite my type.

Some day, they say
He'll come ridin' up on the back of a horse
But of course
I'm allergic to horses
How will I tell him
He'll just have to sell him.

I went to school with a girl
I remember her well
She was pretty smart - and pretty as hell
Her folks had a farm
But she wouldn't stay of course
She wanted prince charming
So she went to LA of course
Managed to seduce a
Famous actor or producer
Shacked up in a house in the hills
With a cat and a juicer
- and a fancy car
- and a tennis court.
But the guy wasn't quite
The catch she'd thought she caught.
He treats her like trash
Then you know the drill
Takes his cat and his cash
And finds some younger girl
So she's left with a stupid corvette
And an empty swimming pool
Which she fills with regret
Smart girl but kinda dumb...

And I'd rather be lonely
Than sit on my fanny
Waiting for my prince to come-

One day, some day
He'll come sweeping in
And sweep me off my feet
And spend the next 4 decades
Wanting to cheat on me
Getting less handsom
And fighting his dragons.

He'd know what to wear
He'd have a full head of hair
And his eyes would be brown
Or blue.
Or green.
Well, I dont care.
And his body would be toned with those
Pecks you get at the gym
But he won't spend all of his time at the gym.
And he'll love reading books,
He'll be an excellent cook,
He'll be good looking but not to aware of his looks.
He'll be tender but tough
And smart but not smug
And attentive but not fawning
And he'll smell good in the morning
- 'n he'll dance,
-and like hiking and baking
And biking I'm not picky
I just ask that he likes me
And I like him and I'd rather be alone
If the only other option
Is to come and settly down
With some condescending clown
With a great rating from some dating service
Some self professing Mr. Perfect
Another narcissistic legend
Made a million out of hedge funds
Another sexually inaffectual
Self-obsessing metrosexual
Pseudo-intellectual
Getting drunk and existential.
Every time the steelers lose a game
Thanks - but perhaps another day.

One day, some day
My prince may come
But I won't hold my breath
There's only divorcees
And wierdos left
And weird is fine
But not all the time
One day,
Someday my prince will come
So the fairytale said
30 years later it's still in my head
That if I screw a frog
I will wake up in a four poster bed.

PHIL (and Joelle):
There was a day with a girl (there was a day)
I remember it well (with a girl)
Her name was Jenean
Or Jenna,
Or Joelle (it's Joelle)
We drank piña coladas
Watched the sun setting over the bay (watched the sun setting over the Bay"
We made love in the sand (We made love in the sand)
And when we were through (when we were through)
We went back to her room (back to my room)
And watched Ghostbusters 2 (Ghostbusters 2)
Smoked half a joint (smoked half a joint)
And ate half a pound of pâté (it was way too much pâté)
Why couldn't that be my one day

Jeff (and female):
(one day some day) I'll cut down on fried chicken takeaway
(One day) my doctor said (one day) my heart will stop tickin'
Unless I cut down on that chicken
I will do it (one day)

Gus (and ensemble):
(one day) I'll stop drinking so much

Nancy: I'll stop dating guys who are 20 years older

Sheriff (and ensemble): (one day) I'll get a new safety clip for my holster
It opens too quick
I'll do it next week

Mrs. Lancaster (and ensemble): (One day) I'll get a new coffee maker

Buster (and ensemble): Some (one) day (day) I will buy her a ring

Ned? (and ensemble): One day (day) death will come to everyone (everyone)

Doris: (One day) I'll learn how to sing

(Rita) {and ensemble} and Phil:
{(One day)}These Endless first dates
{(Someday)} that start with her (my prince may come) hating me

Phil and Rita (and ensemble):
But it just doesn't seem likely (ahhhhhh)

Phil: that I'm gonna get her to like me

Rita: [spoken] Phil, you bought me candy!

Phil: [spoken] I bought you candies
[sung] can I get in your panties now?

Phil (and Rita): (One day) is not enough (some day) I've had enough
(I will wake in the arms) I'm not enough I'm not your (of an actual) fictional (man)
I'm just me, I can't be (who will be more than I) am (ask)
(If all that he is) this is all that there is

Larry [spoken] (and ensemble):
Okay we're on in (one day) 5, 4, (one day) 3, 2, (one day)....
Okay Phil we're on in 5, (one day), 4, (one day) 3, 2 (one day)...
Okay we're on in (one day) 5, 4, (one day) 3, 2, (one day), 2....

Phil: [What 'd ya know, it's Groundhog Day

Ensemble: [sung] tomorrow spring will come
And then
There will be blue skies my friend
Bright eyes and laughter

(tomorrow) people can curse, (Spring will come) cast spells and cry,
(tomorrow) Offer your prayers to the unfeeling sky (There will be blue skies my friend)
(Tomorrow) Spring will arrive (bright eyes and) when the winter is done (laughter)
And if it's not tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.......)

[Instrumental]

Well here I am again
The pretty but naïve one
The perky-breasted, giggly one night stand
Is it my destiny to be
A brief diversion
Just a detour on the journey of some man?

I'm not really one for askin'
I'll play whatever role I'm cast in
Will smile with perfect teeth
And grimace underneath
I learned back in my teens
There's no point in protestin'
If you look good in tight jeans
That's what they'll want you dressed in
Once you're known for low-cut tops
It's pretty hard to stop
It isn't easy to break free
Of playing Nancy

I don't really remember
I guess I chose to be here
I wasn't quite aware that
I was put here to be stared at
But this world I chose to live in
Is mostly run by men
So you take what you are given
Just to feel the love again
So throughout the endless week
And all through the weekend
You will find me here
Playing Nancy

And look, I know this person fits me
I'm pretty good at being pretty
And I'm grateful, I mean to say
There are worse roles you can play
And I'd rather be up dancing
Than sad against a wall
It's better to be leered at
Than not desired at all
Who am I to dream of better
To dream that one day I will be
Something more than just collateral
In someone else's battle
I will be
Something more than Nancy

There will be mornings you will be utterly defeated by your laces
Days where every look looks condescending
Empty smiles in empty faces
The same old places this stunning stasis

Just let your spirit slip away
Let all your troubles crumble and decay
There's more than one way out if at the end of the day
You're at the end of your rope

Never give up hope
Never let yourself be defeated
If you tried it once you can try again
A new day will follow
There's always tomorrow

ENSEMBLE: never give up hope

Never listen to the unbelievers
You will take your falls
You will hit your walls
Don't give into sorrow

ENSEMBLE: There's always tomorrow

I never lasted farcical disaster
You play your part
You march the march
You don't complain
You find a way
Another day
Surrounded by a cast of half-wit bastards
Grinning masks amidst the grey
Yet you stay sane and through the pain
The frozen pain of glass
You strain to cast your gaze upon the path you have to tread
And in your head that leaden dread
The f*cking roads have all been trod
And there's no way and there's no God
And god oh god this goddamn weather
Will last forever but you must never, never, never

Never give up hope
Never let the odds overwhelm you
You know the game gets hard
Don't throw in your cards
A new day will follow

ENSEMBLE: There's always tomorrow

I've done everything I can
I've done my best and I
And I've tried so hard to find my way out of this mess but I
But I'm so tired
I swear to you I've tried
And sometimes I just want to give up
Just give up and stay here and live
But I know there's no point in denying that I will keep trying
I'm a lot of things
But I'm not a quitter
I will never give up, never give up, never give up

Never give up hope
Never let yourself be defeated
You tried it once, you tried it again
There's always tomorrow

ENSEMBLE: If it isn't today have a little faith there's always tomorrow

Hold on to your faith
You'll find another way
After acid and gas and guns
And razors and rope
You may wanna live
But baby don't give up
Hope

You like boats,
But you don't like deep water
And you're afraid of clowns and the end of the world.
And you like films,
But as a rule you think they should be ten minutes shorter.
And when you were Nineteen,
You kissed a girl and didn't particularly like it.
And you love the thighs of perfectly roasted chicken.
And you slept with the light on until you were twelve,
Because you thought Jesus was going to appear from the dark
And get angry at you for not helping your mom with her mom.
Or walking the dog who you named Stephen because...
Well actually you never did tell me why.
Apart from that,
I know everything about you.
I know everything.

RITA HANSON
Sometimes, it's like I'm stumbling forward
Hustled forward
Jostled from behind by time

Sometimes, it's like I'm being dragged
Yet always lagging
Trying to keep in time with time

But if I could stop the clock for just one day
If I could freeze a moment for a moment
Rest before the measure's over
Hold the beat for just one day
If I could wind it back and start afresh
Just a day to catch my breath
To make mistakes and set them right
Delay the coming of the night

If I had my time again
I would do it all the same
They say, but that's insane
Wouldn't you want to make a couple of changes?
Regrets, I'd not even have a few
If I could do this thing that you
Say you can do.
I've always dreamt of learning how to dance

PHIL CONNORS
Some days I go out without pants

RITA
It's so exciting

PHIL
I slept with ninety

RITA
A new beginning

PHIL
Percent of women

RITA
Every morning

PHIL
In Punxsutawney

RITA
To have the time to strive for more

PHIL
Between eighteen and eighty-four
And one dude when I was bored

RITA
If I had my time again
I'd take the path less trodden
Avoid the crap I trod in
Read a lot of books

PHIL
I've stolen eighteen million bucks

RITA
And I would worry less about my nose looks

PHIL
And I guess I'll do it again

RITA
And I would be a lot more zen

PHIL
When

RITA
And I would punch

PHIL
I

RITA
A lot of men

PHIL
Had

RITA
If I had

RITA & PHIL
My time again

RITA
If I had my time again
I would do it all the same
They claim, that that's ridiculous
Surely you'd want to make a couple of fixes?
All those boxes left unchecked
All the dreams you left neglected
You'd go back and put it right
I've always fancied learning how to climb

PHIL
I once masturbated seven times

RITA
I'd study math

PHIL
In the bath

RITA
And search for meaning

PHIL
In one evening

RITA
And I'd run up hills

PHIL
It wasn't fun, but still

RITA
I'd learn to paint

PHIL
A man my age [RITA]
Just to know [PHIL]
It's nice to know [RITA & PHIL]
I can

PHIL
It's nice to know I can

RITA
If I had my time again
I'd sample all the samples
Look at things from different angles
I would not do it all the same
If I had my time again

RITA & ENSEMBLE
If I had my time again

RITA
The things I'd handle better
I would send my unsent letters

PHIL
I've started seven hundred fights

RITA
If I had my time back

PHIL
And if you knew the endless nights
That I have wasted getting wasted
Contemplating different ways to suicide

RITA
I would write and I would write

PHIL
And I have tried every food and every drink and every cheat [RITA]
And I would add joy to other people's lives
And I would learn piano
And I would make a lot of friends
If I had my time [PHIL]
And every choice a thousand times
And I daily eat about a dozen donuts and I don't know why
And I don't know... why? [RITA & COMPANY]
If I had my time again [RITA]
I'd open all the doors I've never looked behind
And oh, the thing I'd taste, the things I'd try

And the misery I could prevent

And I will make a lot of friends
If I had my time
Again [PHIL]
I've opened all the doors I'd never looked behind
And oh I
I find the thing with these revolving rhymes

They're only fun cause you know they're going to end

Again, I have had it, I have had my time again

PHIL
And you like Voltaire
And The Wind in the Willows
And when you smile you get this little crease in your nose
And I know that you think I am shallow
But if you knew how deep my shallowness goes,
You'd be shocked
And your toes go numb because you wear inappropriate socks
I know everything

On and on and on you stumble
Towards the evening sun
She waits for you with open arms
You stare right through her

On and on you fall towards her
Cold embracing shadow doorway
Offers nothing still she draws you ever to her

On and on and on you stumble towards the sinking sun
Turn a blind eye fight or run
Rest assured the night will come

On and on you grasp and guess
And search for patterns in the mess
Of what has been and what is left
To yet endure

The jester shrugs and plays his part
The fever fall see only dark
The pious with their hope filled hearts sing hallelujah

On and on and on you stumble towards the cooling sun
Turn a blind eye fight or run
Rest assured the night will come

All the love and all the gold
All you've built and all you've sold
All the power you may hold
You won't evade her

All the steel and all the bricks
All the math and magic tricks
All the carrots all the sticks
Will not dissuade her

On and on and on you stumble towards the fading sun
Turn a blind eye fight or run
Rest assured the night will come
Rest assured the night will come

As for that the rest is just a test of your endurance
You've gotta love life
You've gotta live life
You've gotta love life

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one
Two, three, four, five, four, three, two
Five, four, three, two

One, two, three, four
Six, seven
Six, eight, two, three, four

[RITA HANSON]
February 2nd
First remote broadcast
GHD in Punx, PA
Working with Phil Connors

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Five, six, seven, eight!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Woo!
Five
Four
Three
Two
One, one, one, one
Punxsutawney is a little town with a heart as big as any town
Punxsutawney is a little town with a heart as big as any town
In the U.S.A
And there is no town greater than
Punxsutawney on Groundhog, Groundhog, Groundhog

PIANO TEACHER
Who is that..

ENSEMBLE
Who is that..

PIANO TEACHER
Emerging from his burrow?
Who can see today what we won't

PIANO TEACHER & ENSEMBLE
See until tomorrow?

PIANO TEACHER
Shaman of the shadows
Springer of the spring
Is it a..

ENSEMBLE WOMAN
Squirrel?

PIANO TEACHER
Is it a..

ANOTHER ENSEMBLE WOMAN
Beaver?
ADVERTISEMENT

PIANO TEACHER
Kinda both but not quite either
We can guess but we won't know
If we should dress for sun or snow
Until..
We heard it from old Phil
From Punxsutawney Phil!

COMPANY
Woah, yeah!
Woo!
Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil! Phil!