A Beat Behind

1, 2, 3, 4, lift those legs up
 Higher, it's time to perspire
 I wanna know where your fire is
 Harder; now show me some ardor
 Before you retire from the biz
 Thirty-five
 And I can't go the distance
 I'm a beat behind
 Half alive
 Seems my whole damned existence
 Is a beat behind
 I'm gone to seed
 And in need
 Of condemning
 I've got the drive
 To survive of a lemming
 Time made me obsolete
 And a beat behind
 Push it class
 Cause it gets tougher
 Paula, you're a beat behind
 Arms apart
 For your art, suffer
 Paula, move your sweet behind
 Stop looking glum
 Overcome my inertia
 Some season soon
 Tommy Tune
 May rehearse ya
 He'll keep you on your feet
 Till you lose your mind
 You're a beat behind
 Paula, what happened to Paula?
 So sad to see Paula fall apart
 Out of breath
 Out of shape
 And exactly as I thought
 Behind
 Look at her
 With the lungs of Madonna
 And a taut behind
 Somebody
 Get me an anti-depressant
 She's at the most
 Maybe post-adolescent
 Time can be so unkind
 I'm a beat behind
 This is so perverse
 Better call a nurse
 Better yet a hearse
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 I thought I'd bounce right back
 A job would fall in place
 But what is so appalling is
 I'm falling on my face
 Well, at least I've got a roof above my head
 But if I must die, I'd rather die in bed
 Someone
 Wake me
 I am in a nightmare
 I've got
 No stamina
 Sweat till you're sleek at the peak of condition
 They're doing shows now with no intermission
 Step it up
 Play the part
 Show your stuff
 And let your
 Heart rate climb (Wake me)
 Pour it on (I am in a nightmare)
 Let 'em know that
 Your body's workin'
 Over time (I got no stamina)
 No time to rest time to test your endurance
 Laid-up, in pain, but with paid up insurance
 Dance like Astaire, with unerring precision
 Brain cells employed to avoid a collision
 I've got a flat- rent controlled- and a daughter
 I'd trade them both for a teaspoon of water
 Back to the Broadway grind
 You're a beat behind
 A beat behind
 A beat behind
 Behind