No Way to Stop It - Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Roger Dann

You dear attractive dewy-eyed idealist

Today you have to learn to be a realist

You may be bent on doing deed of daring due

But up against a shark, what can a herring do?

Be wise, compromise

Compromise, and be wise!

Let them think you’re on their side, be noncommittal

I will not bow my head to the men I despise!

You won’t have to bow your head to stoop a little

Why not learn to put your faith and your reliance

On an obvious and simple fact of science?

A crazy planet full of crazy people

Is somersaulting all around the sky

And every time it turns another somersault

Another day goes by

And there’s no way to stop it

No, there’s no way to stop it

No, you can’t stop it even if you tried

So, I’m not going to worry

No, I’m not going to worry

Every time I see another day go by

While somersaulting at a cockeyed angle

We make a cockeyed circle 'round the sun

And when we circle back to where we started from

Another year has run

And there’s no way to stop it

No, there’s no way to stop it

If the earth wants to roll around the sun

You’re a fool if you worry

You’re a fool if you worry

Over anything but little number one

That’s you!

That’s I!

And I!

And me!

That all absorbing character

That fastinating creature

That super special feature

Me!

So every star on every whirling planet

And every constellation in the sky

Revolves around the center of the universe

That lovely thing called, I

And there’s no way to stop it

No, there’s no way to stop it

And I know, though I cannot tell you why (sigh)

Just as long as I’m living

Just as long as I’m living

There’ll be nothing else as wonderful as I

I!

I!

I!

Nothing else as wonderful as I!