Bette Midler - Some People lyrics

Some people can get a thrill

knitting sweaters and setting still.

That`s okay for some people

who don`t know they`re alive.

Some people can thrive and bloom

living life in the living room.

That`s perfect for some people

of one hundred and five.

But I at least gotta try

when I think of all the sights that I gotta see

and all the places I gotta play,

all the things that I gotta be at.

Come on, papa, what do you say?

Some people can be content

playing bingo and paying rent.

That`s peachy for some people,

for some hum-drum people to be,

but some people ain`t me!

I had a dream,

a wonderful dream, papa,

all about June in the Orpheum circuit.

Gimme a chance and I know I can work it.

I had a dream.

Just as real as can be, papa.

There I was in Mr. Orpheum`s office

and he was saying to me, "Rose,

get yourself some new orchestrations,

new routines and red velvet curtains.

Get a feathered hat for the baby;

photographs in front of the theatre.

Get an agent and in jig time

you`ll be being booked in the big time."

Oh, what a dream.

A wonderful dream, papa.

And all that I need is eighty-eight bucks, papa.

That`s what he said, papa.

Only eighty-eight bucks.

"You ain`t gettin` eighty-eight cents from me, Rose."

"Well, I`ll get it someplace else! But I`ll get it! And get my kids out!"

Goodbye to blueberry pie.

Good ridance to all the socials I had to go to,

all the lodges I had to play,

all the shriners I said hello to.

Hey, L.A., I`m comin` your way!

Some people sit on their butts;

got the dream, yeah, but not the guts.

That`s living for some people,

for some hum-drum people I suppose.

Well, they can stay and rot!

But not Rose!