PIANO

Lost In the Brass (6)

CUE: Any time.
Lyrics by Tommy Newman
Music by Tommy Newman and Gaby Alter
Freely

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There it goes a - gain. The mo-ment's gone, and I'm toolame to speak. A - no - therwa-sted op-por-tu - ni - ty.

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Peppy pop/marching band
Al - ways wai - ting for some - thing to hap - pen, but

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"Bu-ddy." I'm al ways "Bu ddy." I'm a girl, for your in - for -ma - tion, for-

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e-ver in this si - tu - a - tion, wai-ting and ho-ping he'll no-tice how I'm fee - ling, but

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ev'-ry time I get him near, I fade a - way, I di - sa - ppear. That's me. - Ne-ver ge - tting heard.

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He just smiles and walks a - way like I ne-ver said a word.

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Oh, can a-ny - bo - dy hear me? Am I just blow - ing air while the whole

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world mar - ches past? Still I blow and blow, though I know it gets me no - where, I just get

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VARIOUS BAND MEMBERS pass by practicing marching band vamp.

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lost, lost in thebrass.

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Flutes don't spar-kle quite like ba- tons. There's no vi - su-al a - ttrac - tion. No

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sti-mu-lus, re-ac - tion. Pre-tty mu-sic. That's all the pre tty that I got. I'm

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planned. And it's safe in e - v'ry way, But they don't un der stand.

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Oh, can a-ny - bo - dy hear me? I just know, I know I could spar -

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lost, lost, lost in the brass, I get so lost, lost in the brass.

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mu - sic! See me, I'm not one of the boys, I

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Stewart, thank you so much for finding this.
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It was just on top of the old score board-
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I almost forgot about tomorrow's meeting
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for the tolerance club.
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You know I was thinking of joining that.
NICOLE
Sorry, sweetie. It's a closed group.

(ELLIOTT & NICOLE exit.)

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So I don't wear make-up, I don't sick my hair up, with an awe-som-tas - tic pink bur-ette. No, I'll

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ne-ver be a ma - jor-ette. I'm plain. I'mba-sic. And I sweat when I get ner - vous. I

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suck at po - pu-lar - i-ty. Peo-ple just don't no - tice me. Some day, high school's got to end.

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