West Side Story 2021 Album Lyrics

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Prologue

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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La Borinqueña (Sharks Version)

(David Alvarez & Sharks)

[Bernardo:]
¡Despierta Borinqueño
Que han dado la señal!
¡Despierta de ese sueño
Que es hora de luchar!

[Bernardo & Sharks:]
A ese llamar patriótico
¿No arde tu corazón?
¡Ven! nos será simpático
El ruido de cañón
Nosotros queremos la libertad
Nuestros machetes nos la dará

Vámonos borinqueños, vámonos ya
Que nos espera ansiosa
Ansiosa la libertad
¡La libertad, la libertad!
¡La libertad!

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Jet Song

(Mike Faist, Kyle Coffman, Kevin Csolak, John Michael Fiumara, Patrick Higgins & Jets)

[Riff:]
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette to your last dyin' day
When you're a Jet, if the spit hits the fan
You got brothers around, you're a family man!
([Ice:] You're never alone)
You're never disconnected!
([Both:] You're home with your own)
([Ice:] When company's expected)
You're well protected!

[Riff:]
Then you are set with a capital J
Which you'll never forget till they cart you away
When you're a Jet, you stay a Jet!

So meet Tony and me at the Dogs Days Dance at the gym tonight

We can't rumble at the gym, it will be lousy with cops

[Mouthpiece:]
Maybe we had enough troubles with the Puerto Ricans for one day

[Riff:]
Relax! It's a social mixer, so we'll mix until the time is right to fix the rumble for tomorrow night
Be there 10 p.m, punctual-like, dressed to kill, walking tall!

[A-Rab:]
We always walk tall! We're Jets!

[Riff:]
The greatest!

[Riff:]
When you're a Jet you're the top cat in town

[Diesel:]
You're the gold medal kid with the heavyweight crown

[Riff:]
When you're a Jet

[Big Deal:]
You're the swingin'est thing
Little boy, you're a man

[Jets:]
Little man, you're a king!

[Riff:]
The Jets are in gear
([Baby John:] Our cylinders are clickin'!)
The Sharks'll steer clear
([Jets:] 'Cause ev'ry Puerto Rican's a lousy chicken!)

[Jets:]
Here come the Jets like a bat out of hell
Someone gets in our way, someone don't feel so well
Here come the Jets, little world, step aside!
Better go underground, better run, better hide!

We're drawin' the line
So keep your noses hidden!
We're hangin' a sign
Says "Visitors Forbidden"
([Riff:] And we ain't kiddin'!)

Here come the Jets, yeah, and we're gonna beat
Ev'ry last buggin' gang on the whole buggin' street!
On the whole!
Ever!
Mother!
Lovin'!
Street!

Yeah!

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Somethings Coming

(Ansel Elgort)

Could be!
Who knows?
There's something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows
It may come cannonballing down through the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose!

Who knows?
It's only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Under a tree
I got a feelin' there's a miracle due
Gonna come true
Coming to me!

Could it be? Yes, it could
Something's coming, something good
If I can wait!
Something's comin', I don't know what it is
But it is gonna be great!

With a click, with a shock
Phone'll jingle, door'll knock
Open the latch!
Something's comin', don't know when
But it's soon
Catch the moon
One-handed catch!

Around the corner
Or whistling down the river
Come on deliver
To me!

Will it be? Yes, it will
Maybe just by holdin' still
It'll be there!

Come on, something, come on in
Don't be shy
Meet a guy
Pull up a chair!
The air is humming
And something great is coming!

Who knows?
It's only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight

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The Dance at the Gym: Blues, Promenade

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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The Dance at the Gym: Mambo

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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The Dance at the Gym: Cha-Cha, Meeting Scene, Jump

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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Maria

(Ansel Elgort)

Maria...

The most beautiful sound I've ever heard
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria...
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria...
Maria, Maria...

Maria!
I've just met a girl named Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me

Maria!
I've just kissed a girl named Maria
And suddenly I've found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!

Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria...
I'll never stop saying Maria!

Maria! Maria! Maria! Maria!
Maria! Maria! Maria! Maria!

Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Maria
I'll never stop saying Maria!
The most beautiful sound I ever heard
Maria

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Balcony Scene (Tonight)

(Rachel Zegler & Ansel Elgort)

[Maria:]
Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever
In my eyes, in my words, and in everything I do
Nothing else but you ever

[Tony:]
And there's nothing for me but Maria
Every sight that I see is Maria

[Maria:]
Tony, Tony

[Tony:]
Always you, every thought I'll ever know
Everywhere I go, you'll be
[Maria:]
All the world is only
[Both:]
You and me!

[Maria:]
Tonight, tonight
It all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away
Tonight, tonight
There's only you tonight
What you are, what you do, what you say

[Tony:]
Today, all day I had the feeling
A miracle would happen
I know now I was right
For here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight!

[Maria:]
Tonight, tonight
The world is full of light

[Tony:]
With suns and moons all over the place

[Both:]
Tonight, tonight
The world is wild and bright
Going mad, shooting sparks into space

[Tony:]
Today the world was just an address
A place for me to live in
No better than all right

[Both:]
But here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight

[Bernardo:]
María, vente pa' dentro

[Maria:]
Sí, ya voy, me estoy vistiendo. Tomorrow

[Tony:]
Tomorrow

[Maria:]
Sí, okay. Wait, wait... I forgot why I called you

[Tony:]
I'll wait till you remember

[Both:]
Good night, good night
Sleep well and when you dream
Dream of me
Tonight

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Transition to Scherzo / Scherzo

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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America

(Cast)

[ANITA]
Puerto Rico
You lovely island
Island of tropical breezes
Always the pineapples growing
Always the coffee blossoms blowing
And the money owing
And the babies crying
And the bullets flying
I like the island Manhattan
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

[GIRLS]
I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America

[BERNARDO]
For a small fee in America

[ANITA]
Buying on credit is so nice

[BERNARDO]
One look at us and they charge twice



[ROSALIA]
I have my own washing machine

[INDIO]
What will you have though to keep clean?

[GIRLS]
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industry boom in America

[BOYS]
Twelve in a room in America

[ANITA]
Lots of new housing with more space

[ALL]
Lots of doors slamming in our face

[ANITA]
I'll get a terrace apartment

[BERNARDO]
Better get rid of your accent


[GIRLS]
Life can be bright in America

[BOYS]
If you can fight in America

[GIRLS]
Life is all right in America

[BOYS]
If you're all white in America

[BOYS]
La la la la la la, America
America
La la la la la la, America

[ANITA]
America

[GIRLS]
Here you are free and you have pride

[BOYS]
Long as you stay on your own side


[GIRLS]
Free to do anything you choose

[BOYS]
Free to wait tables and shine shoes

[BERNARDO]
Everywhere grime in America
Organized crime in America
Terrible time in America

[ANITA]
You forget I'm in America

[BERNARDO]
I think I'll go back to San Juan

[ANITA]
I know a boat you can get on (Bye Bye!)

[BERNARDO]
Everyone there will give big cheer!

[ANITA]
Everyone there will have moved here

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Gee, Officer Krupke

(Kevin Csolak, John Michael Fiumara, Jess LeProtto, Ben Cook, Kyle Allen, Myles Erlick & Patrick Higgins)

[Mouthpiece:]
Oh, look at ya's, ya feckless friggin' disappointments
Now gimme one good reason I shouldn't throw the book atcha

[Diesel:]
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke
You gotta understand
It's just our bringin' up-ke
That gets us out of hand
([Big Deal:] Our mothers all are junkies)
([A-Rab:] Our fathers all are drunks)
Golly Moses, naturally we're punks!

[Diesel:]
Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset
We never had the love that every child oughta get
We ain't no delinquents
We're misunderstood
Deep down inside us there is good!

[A-Rab:]
There is good!

[Jets:]
There is good, there is good
There is untapped good!
Like inside, the worst of us is good!

[Mouthpiece:]
Aw, that's a touchin' good story
([Diesel:] Lemme tell it to the world!)
Just tell it to the judge

[Diesel:]
Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
My parents treat me rough
With all their marijuana
They won't give me a puff
They didn't wanna have me
But somehow I was had
Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!

[Balkan:]
Right!
Officer Krupke, you're really a square
This boy don't need a judge, he needs an analyst's care!
It's just his neurosis that oughta be curbed
He's psychologically disturbed!

[Diesel:]
I'm disturbed!

[Jets:]
We're disturbed, we're disturbed
We're the most disturbed
Like we're psychologically disturbed

[Balkan:]
Hear ye, hear ye! In the opinion of this court, the boy is depraved on account he ain't had a normal home

[Diesel:]
Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived

[Balkan:]
So take this nut to a headshrinker

[Mouthpiece:]
Oh, why not?

[Diesel:]
My father is a bastard
My ma's an S.O.B
My grandpa's always plastered
My grandma pushes tea
My sister wears a mustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!

[A-Rab:]
Yes!
Officer Krupke, you're really a slob
This boy don't need a doctor, just a good honest job
Society's played him a terrible trick
And sociologically he's sick!

[Diesel:]
I am sick!

[Jets:]
We are sick, we are sick
We are sick, sick, sick
Like we're sociologically sick!

[A-Rab:]
In my professional opinion, what we got here is a run-of-the-mill juvenile delinquent
And juvenile delinquency is a social disease!

[Balkan:]
Ew, Diesel, you got a social disease?

[A-Rab:]
Bring him to a social worker!

[Mouthpiece:]
Wait, can I catch it by touching him?

[Diesel:]
Dear...

[Baby John:]
Kindly social worker
They say go earn a buck
Like be a soda jerker
Which means I'd be a schmuck
It's not I'm anti-social
I'm only anti-work

[Jets:]
Gloriosky! That's why I'm a jerk!

[Big Deal:]
Officer Krupke, you've done it again
This boy don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen
It ain't just a question of misunderstood
Deep down inside him, he's no good!

[Baby John:]
I'm no good!

[Jets:]
We're no good, we're no good!
We're no earthly good
Like the best of us is no damn good!

[Mouthpiece:]
The trouble is he's crazy

[Balkan:]
The trouble is he drinks

[A-Rab:]
The trouble is he's lazy

[Big Deal:]
The trouble is he stinks

[Snowboy:]
The trouble is he's growing

[Baby John:]
The trouble is he's grown

[Jets:]
Krupke, we got troubles of our own!

Gee, Officer Krupke
We're down on our knees
([Diesel:] 'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease)
Gee, Officer Krupke
What are we to do?
Gee, Officer Krupke
Krup you!

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One Hand, One Heart

(Rachel Zegler & Ansel Elgort)

[Tony:]
Make of our hands one hand
Make of our hearts one heart
Make of our vows one last vow
Even death won't part us now

[Maria:]
Make of our lives one life
Day after day, one life
Now it begins, now we start
One hand, one heart
Only death will part us now

You're worried

But, they're still my guys, they'll listen to me

And what if you can't?

We can't be together while they're brawlin' all around us

Because of us

I swear to you, maria, there won't be any fight

[Both:]
Make of our lives one life
Day after day, one life
Now it begins, now we start
One hand, one heart
Even death won't part us now

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Cool

(Ansel Elgort & Mike Faist)

[Tony:]
Boy, boy, crazy boy
Get cool, boy!
Got a rocket, in your pocket
Keep coolly cool, boy!
Don't get hot
'Cause man, you've got
Some high times ahead
Take it slow and, Daddy-o
You can live it up and die in bed!

Boy, boy, crazy boy
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it
Turn off the juice, boy!
Go man, go
But not like a yo-yo school boy
Just play it cool, boy
Real cool!

[Ice:]
Cool!

[Tiger:]
Go!

[Numbers:]
Crazy!

[Ice:]
Cool!

[Action:]
Go!

[Numbers:]
Crazy!

[Ice, Action, Numbers, Tiger:]
Go!

[Tiger:]
I'm open

[Action:]
Tiger, toss it
Come on, let's go

[Riff:]
Boy, boy, crazy boy
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it
Turn off the juice, boy!
Just play it cool, boy
Real cool

[Ice:]
Pow

[Numbers:]
Pow

[Action:]
Pow, pow

[Tiger:]
Pow

[Riff]
Pow

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Tonight Quintet

(Jim Bryant, Marni Nixon, Rita Moreno, Jets & Sharks)

[Jets:]
The Jets are gonna have their day
Tonight
The Jets are gonna have their way
Tonight
The Puerto Ricans grumble: "Fair fight"
But if they start a rumble
We'll rumble 'em right

[Sharks:]
We're gonna hand 'em a surprise
Tonight
We're gonna cut 'em down to size
Tonight
We said, "O.K., no rumpus
No tricks"
But just in case they jump us
We're ready to mix
Tonight

[Jets:]
We're gonna rock it tonight
We're gonna jazz it up and have us a ball

[Sharks:]
They're gonna get it tonight
The more they turn it on the harder they'll fall

[Jets:]
Well, they began it!

[Sharks:]
Well, they began it!

[Jets & Sharks:]
And we're the ones to stop 'em once and for all
Tonight!

[Anita:]
Anita's gonna get her kicks
Tonight
We'll have our private little mix
Tonight
He'll walk in hot and tired
Poor dear
Don't matter if he's tired
As long as he's here
Tonight!

[Tony:]
Tonight, tonight
Won't be just any night
Tonight there will be no morning star
Tonight, tonight
I'll see my love tonight
And for us, stars will stop where they are

[Maria:]
Today, the minutes seem like hours
The hours go so slowly
And still the sky is light
Oh moon, grow bright
And make this endless day endless night!

[Jets:]
The Jets are comin' out on top
Tonight
We're gonna watch Bernardo drop
Tonight!
That Puerto Rican punk'll
Go down
And when he's hollered "Uncle"
We'll tear up the town!

[Riff:]
We'll be in back of you, boy

[Maria:]
Tonight, tonight

[Ice:]
Right

[Riff:]
You're gonna flatten him good

[Maria:]
Won't be just any night

[Ice:]
Right

[Riff:]
One, two three!

[Maria:]
Tonight there will be no morning star

[Ice:]
One, two three!

[Riff:]
And then we'll have us a ball
Tonight

[Maria:]
Tonight, tonight

[Sharks:]
We're gonna rock it tonight!

[Anita:]
Tonight

[Maria:]
I'll see my love tonight

[Jets:]
We're gonna jazz it tonight!

[Maria:]
And for us, stars will stop where they are

[Sharks:]
They're gonna get it tonight

[Anita:]
Tonight
Late tonight

[Maria & Tony:]
Today the minutes seem like hours

[Sharks:]
They began it

[Jets:]
Tonight!

[Anita:]
We'Re Gonna Mix It Tonight

[Maria & Tony:]
The hours go so slowly
And still the sky is light

[Jets:]
They began it

[Anita:]
Anita's gonna have her day

[Sharks:]
They began it

[Jets:]
And we're the ones
To stop 'em once and for all!

[Anita:]
Bernardo's gonna have his way
Tonight, tonight

[Maria & Tony:]
Oh moon, grow bright

[Sharks:]
We'll stop 'em once and for all
The Sharks are gonna have their way

[Jets:]
The Jets are gonna have their way

[Anita:]
Tonight

[Maria & Tony:]
And make this endless day endless night

[Sharks:]
The Sharks are gonna have their day
We're gonna rock it tonight

[Jets:]
The Jets are gonna have their day

[Anita:]
This very night

[Maria & Tony:]
Tonight!

[Sharks:]
Tonight!

[Jets:]
We're gonna rock it tonight
Tonight!

[Anita:]
We're gonna rock it tonight
Tonight!

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The Rumble

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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I Feel Pretty

(Marni Nixon, Suzie Kaye, Yvonne Othon & Joanne Miya)

[Maria:]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
I feel pretty, and witty and gay
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today

I feel charming
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
Have you met my good friend Maria
The craziest girl on the block?
You'll know her the minute you see her
She's the one who is in an advanced
State of shock

She thinks she's in love
She thinks she's in Spain
She isn't in love
She's merely insane

[Rosalia:]
It must be the heat

[Consuelo:]
Or some rare disease

[Francisca:]
Or too much to eat

[Consuelo:]
Or maybe it's fleas

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
Keep away from her
Send for Chino!
This is not the Maria
We know!
Modest and pure
Polite and refined
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!

[Maria:]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key
A committee
Should be organized to honor me

I feel dizzy
I feel sunny
I feel fizzy and funny and fine
And so pretty
Miss America can just resign!

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
What mirror where?

[Maria:]
Who can that attractive girl be?

[Rosalia:]
Which?

[Consuelo:]
What?

[Francisca:]
Where?

[Francisca:]
Whom?

[Maria:]
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

[Rosalia:]
Such a pretty me!

[Consuelo:]
Such a pretty me!

[Francisca:]
Such a pretty me!

[All:]
I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

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Somewhere

(Rita Moreno)

[Maria:]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
I feel pretty, and witty and gay
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today[Tony:]
There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere

[Maria:]
There's a time for us
Someday a time for us
Time together with time to spare
Time to look, time to care
Someday!

[Tony:]
Somewhere
We'll find a new way of living

[Maria:]
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere

[Both:]
There's a place for us
A time and place for us
Hold my hand and we're halfway there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow
Someday
Somewhere!

I feel charming
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
Have you met my good friend Maria
The craziest girl on the block?
You'll know her the minute you see her
She's the one who is in an advanced
State of shock

She thinks she's in love
She thinks she's in Spain
She isn't in love
She's merely insane

[Rosalia:]
It must be the heat

[Consuelo:]
Or some rare disease

[Francisca:]
Or too much to eat

[Consuelo:]
Or maybe it's fleas

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
Keep away from her
Send for Chino!
This is not the Maria
We know!
Modest and pure
Polite and refined
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!

[Maria:]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key
A committee
Should be organized to honor me

I feel dizzy
I feel sunny
I feel fizzy and funny and fine
And so pretty
Miss America can just resign!

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:

[Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca:]
What mirror where?

[Maria:]
Who can that attractive girl be?

[Rosalia:]
Which?

[Consuelo:]
What?

[Francisca:]
Where?

[Francisca:]
Whom?

[Maria:]
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

[Rosalia:]
Such a pretty me!

[Consuelo:]
Such a pretty me!

[Francisca:]
Such a pretty me!

[All:]
I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

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A Boy Like That / I Have A Love

(Betty Wand & Marni Nixon)

[Anita:]
A boy like that
Who'd kill your brother
Forget that boy and find another
One of your own kind
Stick to your own kind!

A boy like that will give you sorrow
You'll meet another boy tomorrow
One of your own kind
Stick to you own kind!

A boy who kills cannot love
A boy who kills has no heart
And he's the boy who gets your love
And gets your heart
Very smart, Maria, very smart!

A boy like that wants one thing only
And when he's done he'll leave you lonely
He'll murder your love; he murdered mine
Just wait and see
Just wait, Maria
Just wait and see!

[Maria:]
Oh no, Anita, no
Anita, no

It isn't true, not for me
It's true for you, not for me
I hear your words
And in my head
I know they're smart
But my heart, Anita
But my heart
Knows they're wrong
You should know better

You were in love, or so you said
You should know better

I have a love, and it's all that I have
Right or wrong, what else can I do?
I love him; I'm his
And everything he is
I am, too
I have a love and it's all that I need
Right or wrong, and he needs me too
I love him, we're one
There's nothing to be done
Not a thing I can do
But hold him, hold him forever
Be with him now, tomorrow
And all of my life!

[Both:]
When love comes so strong
There is no right or wrong
Your love is your life!

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Finale

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]

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End Credits

(Leonard Bernstein)


[Instrumental]