High school musical theater In Our Hands Now!
an original high school musical by
E. Sandy Powell  &  Mick Terry

LIGHTEN UP
Copyright © 2003   Lyrics:  E. Sandy Powell & Mick Terry | Music:  Mick Terry

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1: Don't | want you to take this the wrong way,
but I'm a|bout to explode. I've got something to say.
You | want us to pull Number 1 in the state,
then you | go from upset to incensed and irate
when | after a tournament we should come back
and a | couple assignments we maybe still lack.

2: You | want me to stretch my horizons a little:
have a | job, tutor others, but then you belittle
my | missing a detail on your inane worksheet,
but who | cares if each item's completely complete.
Don't | want you to take this the wrong way,
but I'm a|bout to explode. I've got something to say.

CHORUS:
Lighten | up! Lighten up! I'm serious here.
I | don't think you get it. Perhaps I'm not clear.
Lighten | up! Lighten up! Can you cut me some slack?
Lighten | up! Lighten up!

INTERLUDE:

3: Then there're | extra curricular projects and such.
I went | out for the play. And I do keep in touch
with our | school and with all our community needs.
And, of | course, follow up on your scholarship leads.
I | study for months for the old SAT's.
You | know they're not tests you can just take with ease.

4: I | want you to hear this: I'm wearing too thin.
It's | hard to relax, even harder to grin
when | you're on my case nearly all of the time.
It's | always to your beat that I've got to rhyme.
So | give us a day off just once in a while,
some | time off to veg; you know that's more my style.
CHORUS:

BREAK:

5: You | think that you're subt-ly directing me?
You | seem to take molding with definite glee.
So | deal with your life, how it didn't turn out,
'stead of | living through me and what I'm all about.
Don't | want you to take this the wrong way,
but I'm a|bout to explode. I've got something to say.
CHORUS:

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