Cabaret Soundtrack - "Perfectly Marvelous" lyrics

SALLY BOWLES: If anyone should ask you about me one day, Cliff, you have two alternatives Simply tell them the truth and say, You can either say, yes it's true, we're living in delicious sin, or you can I met this perfectly marvelous girl, In this perfectly wonderful place, As I lifted the glass to the start of this marvelous year Before you knew would she call on the phone inviting Some perfectly beautiful buzz Now I've this perfectly marvelous girl Next moment I was no longer alone, but set reciting In my charming American style How I dazzled the senses with truly no less than a guile In my perfectly beautiful room And we're living together and having a marvelous time... CLIFF: Oh, Sally, I'm afraid it wouldn't work. You're much too distracting. Distracting' No, inspiring! SALLY: She tells me perfectly marvelous tales Which I'll probably use Of her prettily scandalous life As a chapter or two in my book What luck to fall on a fabulous source of stimulation and since my stay in Berlin was to force creation That perfectly marvelous tool Is a perfect dream to be Just as still as a mouse fall I'm giving my novel a word Yes, I've the highly agreeable life In my perfectly beautiful room With my nearly invisible CLIFF: Perfectly marvelous girl. In this really incredible town I met this truly remarkable girl Talk away into my room And she still fully managed to SALLY: Oh, Cliff! CLIFF: I have a terrible feeling I said a dumb thing SALLY: Besides I've only got one narrow bed... CLIFF: We'll think of something! SALLY: And now this wild unpredictable girl BOTH: And this perfectly beautiful man We'll be living together And having a marvelous time!