The Other Side

[PT Barnum]

Right here, right now

I put the offer out

I don't want to chase you down

I know you see it

You run with me

And I can cut you free

Out of the drudgery and walls you keep in

So trade that typical for something colorful

And if it's crazy, live a little crazy

You can play it sensible, a king of conventional

Or you can risk it all and see

Don't you wanna get away

From the same old part you gotta play?

'Cause I got what you need

So come with me and take the ride

It'll take you to the other side

'Cause you can do like you do

Or you can do like me

Stay in the cage or you'll finally take the key

Oh, damn, suddenly you're free to fly

It'll take you to the other side

[Phillip Carlyle]

Okay, my friend, you want to cut me in

Well, I hate to tell you, but it just won't happen

So thanks, but no

I think I'm good to go

'Cause I quite enjoy the life you say I'm trapped in

Now I admire you

And that whole show you do

You're onto something

Really, it's something

But I live among the swells and we don't pick up peanut shells

I'll have to leave that up to you

Don't you know that I'm okay

With this uptown part I get to play?

'Cause I got what I need and I don't want to take the ride

I don't need to see the other side

So go and do like you do

I'm good to do like me

Ain't in a cage, so I don't need to take the key

Oh, damn, can't you see I'm doing fine?

I don't need to see the other side

[PT Barnum]

Now, is this really how you like to spend your days?

Whiskey, and misery, and parties, and plays

[Phillip Carlyle]

If I were mixed up with you, I'd be the talk of the town

Disgraced and disowned, another one of the clowns

[PT Barnum]

But you would finally live a little, finally laugh a little

Just let me give you the freedom to dream and it'll

Wake you up and cure your aching

Take your walls and start 'em breaking

Now that's a deal that seems worth taking

But I guess I'll leave that up to you

[Phillip Carlyle]

Well, it's intriguing, but to go would cost me greatly

So what percentage of the show would I be taking?

[PT Barnum]

Fair enough, you'd want a piece of all the action

I'd give you seven, we could shake and make it happen

[Phillip Carlyle]

I wasn't born this morning, eighteen would be just fine

[PT Barnum]

Why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime?

[Phillip Carlyle]

Fifteen

[PT Barnum]

I'd do eight

[Phillip Carlyle]

Twelve

[PT Barnum]

Maybe nine

[Phillip Carlyle]

Ten

[Phillip Carlyle and PT Barnum]

Don't you wanna get away

To a whole new part you're gonna play?

'Cause I got what you need

So come with me and take the ride

To the other side

So if you do like I do

So if you do like me

Forget the cage, 'cause we know how to make the key

Oh, damn, suddenly we're free to fly

We're going to the other side

So if you do like I do (to the other side)

So if you do like me (going to the other side)

'Cause if we do, we're going to the other side

We're going to the other side