The World Is Upside Down - Original Broadway Cast Recording

Welcome my friends
 (Mr Barry!)
 Glad you could join me on this most auspicious day
 (Hip-hip-hooray!)
 I hope you'll forgive
 Mistakes and errors, we're just getting under way
 (Of course, we understand)
 You may recognize some of the scenes
 You all played a part in sowing the seeds
 Cause there is magic here in my imagination
 Just believe and that can be a creation
 The stories we invented, all the fun that we found
 Appearing here before your eyes
 The world is upside down
 Our characters, what is their motivation?
 Because you see I have to live and breath my part
 Drawing from my own life experience
 Nibs is a lost boy
 Oh, lost! Good, interesting, Yes
 That I can use, good, right
 Is he lost in an emotional purgatory
 Or lost in an existentional search for himself? Yes
 No, he's just lost
 Good heavens, where, when, and how?
 Do you have experience being lost?
 We're experiencing it now
 Dogs, boy, playing, lost, hope, frustration
 Believe and it can be a creation
 Actors don't fly, because actors could die
 Start by saying I can do it, then you can try
 I can't, I won't, will not, not me
 There is no magic in your imagination
 I do not believe in your new creation
 This disaster is all due to your play
 This could be my last first day
 Nauseous, anxious, my reputation, playing lost, get lost!
 Serious actors cannot work this way
 A positive start
 The world is upside down