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Part 1 of Night Vale: The Musical
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Published:
2012-01-01
Completed:
2012-01-01
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16,903
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61/61
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Night Vale: The Musical - Songbook

Summary:

Complete lyrics for all the song parodies used in the fic where everyone keeps breaking into random musical numbers.

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Do sing these lyrics, illustrate them, make recordings of them, dress up in cosplay and film whole scenes using them...seriously, if anyone wants to do that last one, you will make my year.
Do include authorial credit with any recordings you post. And comment here with a link!
Don't repost a parody's complete lyrics (or even large chunks of a parody's lyrics) in other places. Short quotes with a link, all right? (If you're on Tumblr, please reblog them from here.)

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: Act I, Song I - "Good Morning, Night Vale" (Carlos, Ensemble)

Summary:

To the tune of "Good Morning Baltimore" (lyrics), from Hairspray.

Rebloggable version on Tumblr.

Recorded versions:
Sung by Oppopanax!
Sung by Kels!
Sung by anotherdearlistener!

...and hearing the way people are actually singing it, one of the rhymes doesn't work at all, so a new lyric has been swapped into the print version. Any future vocalists, take note: you've got something easier to sing now.

Chapter Text

CARLOS
Oh, oh, oh, woke up today
Feeling the way I always do
Oh, oh, oh, hungry for something I can't ingest
(At least, not in tests)
That rhythm of town
Starts calling me down
It's like a message from high above
Oh, oh, oh, pulling me out
To the smiles and the streets that I love

CARLOS (& ENSEMBLE)
Good morning Night Vale!
Every day's like a fairy tale
Every test is a quandary
Each result is a mystery

Good morning Night Vale
And one day when I write up in full
This work, then the whole world will see
Night Vale and me

Oh, oh, oh, look at my hair
What 'do can compare with mine today?
Oh, oh, oh, I've got my pizza and radio
I'm ready to go!

The spiders I meet
All dance around my feet
They seem to say, "Carlos, it's up to you!"
So, oh, oh, don't hold me back
'Cause right here all my dreams will come true

Good morning Night Vale!
There's my Secret Police detail
There's some angels, who are not real
They wish me luck with my grant appeal

Good morning Night Vale
Swear someday I will write up in full
This work, so the whole world can see
Night Vale and me!

I test and retest
The data come through
I know that they sound like they can't be true
I'm sure my submissions are going unread
Just let me get published before I drop dead!

(Before he drops dead!)

So, oh, oh, give me a break
Not a number is faked, in this town of ours
Oh, oh, oh, we're at the heart of a weirdness blitz
And I love it to bits!

My brain says it's wrong
But the tests come out strong!
Stay up all night just to make the charts
Oh, oh, a scientist's dream
Is this town that's grown into my heart...

(Good morning, good morning
Town that's grown into my heart!)

I love you, Night Vale!
Every day's like a fairy tale
Every test is a quandary
Each result is a mystery

And I promise, Night Vale
That some day when I publish this all
The world's gonna wake up and see
(Gonna wake up and see!)
Night Vale and me...
(Yes, more or less we all agree)
Night Vale and me...
(Someday the world is gonna see)
Night Vale and me!