Album: Let Yourself Go (2001)

The Girl In 14G

Just moved in to 14G
So cozy, calm, and peaceful
Heaven for a mouse like me
With quiet by the lease-full
Pets are banned parties too
And no solicitations
Window seat with garden view
A perfect to read a book
I'm lost in my Jane Austen when I hear

[Dramatic opera]

Say it isn't so
Not the flat below
From an opera wanna be
In 13G
A matinee of Socantota
Wagner's Ring
And Traviata

[Dramatic opera]

My first night in 14G
I'll put up with Pouccini
Brew myself a cup of tea
Crochet until she's fini
Half past eight
Not a peep
Except the clock tick-tockin'
Now I lay me down to sleep
A comfy bed to rest my head
A stretch, a yawn, I'm almost gone when

[Scatting noisily]

Now the girl upstairs
[Laughs]
Wakes me unawares
Blowing down from 15 G
Her revelly
She's scattin like her name is Ella
Guess who answers a cappella

[escalating transitions between scatting and opera]

I'm not one to
Raise my voice
Make a fuss
Or speak my mind
But might I query
Would you mind if
Could you kindly

STOP!
That felt good
STOP!

13, 15, 14G
Yur most unlikely trio
No quite three part harmony

All day and night we're singing
[All three sing]