This is My Idea

This is My Idea is a song from 1987 film Cats and Kittens. It is performed by Elijah Wood, Zoe Saldana, Gabriel Damon, Corey Feldman, Amanda Peterson, Corey Haim, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Jack Palance and Angela Lansbury and sung by Young Diago, Young Yira, Young Joseph, Teenage Diago, Teenage Yira, Teenage Joseph, Diago, Yira, Winston, Diago's Mom and Chorus.
== Lyrics ==
Young Diago: I can't believe I'm stuck in with her all summer
I'll bet she doesn't wrestle, hurt or box.
Young Yira: He looks conceited 
Young Diago: What a total bummer 
Young Diago and Young Yira: If I get lucky, I'll get chicken pox
Young Diago: So happy you could come
Young Yira: So happy to be here
Young Diago and Young Yira: How I'd like to run
Young Yira: This is not my idea
Young Diago: This isn't my idea
Young Diago and Young Yira: Of fun
Diago's Mom: The children seem to get along quite nicely
Winston: We'll join our lands if this arrangement clicks
Diago's Mom: My dear Winston,
That's my point precisely 
Winston: It's such a good parenting
Diago's Mom: And politics
So happy we agree
Winston: I think we've got a deal
Diago's Mom: Diago's quite a match 
Winston: This is my idea
Diago's Mom: This is my idea
Winston and Diago's Mom: Of a match
Diago's Mom: And such fun
Winston: Good heavens child, don't dawdle.
We can't keep Diago waiting.
Young Yira: I haven't packed or washed my fur
And father I get sea sick
Diago's Mom: She soon will be arriving
Is that respect you're showing?
Young Diago: You make me kiss her paw again
I swear I'm gonna be sick
Winston: One day, Diago will be her intended.
Diago's Mom: Splendid.
Young Diago: We've tried all summer, but we just can't lose her
Young Yira: Hey fellas, wait up
Young Joseph: Quick, put on some speed
 
Young Diago: When picking teams
Young Joseph: Of friends
Young Diago: I'd never choose her
Young Joseph: You'd think she'd take a hint or learn to read
Young Yira: This really isn't fair
Young Diago and Young Joseph: We really couldn't care
Young Yira: Boys, it's all or none 
This is not my idea
Young Diago and Young Joseph: This isn't my idea
Young Diago, Young Yira and Young Joseph: Of fun
Chorus: Long before they met
Diago and Yira
We're destined to be wedded
However anyone could see
The only point on which they didn't disagree
Was that the very thought of summertime
Was dreaded? 
Teenage Diago: She tries to talk me into playing dress-up
She's always flirting me with castle guards
Teenage Joseph: I think you really sort of like her, 'fess up
Teenage Diago: I'd like her better if she'd lose at cards
4 sevens and a 10
Teenage Yira: I think I've won again
Teenage Diago and Teenage Joseph: Every time she's won
Teenage Yira: This is my idea
Teenage Diago and Teenage Joseph: This isn't my idea
Teenage Diago, Teenage Yira and Teenage Joseph: Of fun
Chorus: We need a royal wedding
I'd like to be invited
At least we'd get a holiday to rest our plows and axes
Someday these two will marry
Two lands will be united
And with some luck their marriage may result in lower taxes
Winston: What if Yira dosen't go for the merger?
Diago's Mom: Urge her!
Adult Diago and Adult Yira: For as long as I remember
We've been told we'd someday wed.
Every June until September
Adult Diago: All their pushing and annoying hints
Adult Yira: I've got bruises with fingerprints
Adult Diago: I can do much better, I am sure
Adult Yira: He's so immature
I see him smiling and my knees start sitting,
I see inside him and my doubts are gone
Adult Diago: She started out as such a ugly kittening
And somehow suddenly became a cat.
Adult Yira: So happy to be here
Adult Diago: Til now, I've never knew 
Adult Diago and Adult Yira: It is you, I've been dreaming of
Adult Diago: This is my idea
Adult Yira: This is my idea
Winston and Diago's Mom with Chorus: What a good idea, such a charming and romantic notion
This is my idea (This is my idea)
Such a good idea (Such a good idea)
What a good idea, such a powerful and magic potion
This is exactly my idea
Of love
(Instrumental interlude)
Adult Yira: This is my idea
Adult Diago: This is my idea 
Adult Diago and Adult Yira: This is my idea of...
Adult Diago and Adult Yira with Chorus: Love
Category:Songs
Category:1987 songs
Category:Cats and Kittens