A Tight-Knit Family/Love is Blind

**A Tight-Knit Family/Love is Blind** is the second song in act one of Falsettos. It follows Four Jews in a Room Bitching, and is followed by The Thrill of First Love.

## A Tight-Knit Family/Love is Blind

### Albums

Falsettos (2016 Broadway Cast Recording)March of the Falsettos

### Sung By

Christian Borle - (Marvin)Stephanie J. Block - (Trina) Andrew Rannells - (Whizzer) Anthony Rosenthal - (Jason) Brandon Uranowitz - (Mendel)

## Lyrics

A Tight-Knit Family:

[MARVIN]

Well, the situation's this

I do not wish to offend

I divorced my wife

I left my child

And I ran off with a friend

But I want a tight-knit family

I want a group that harmonizes

I want my wife and kid and friend

To pretend

Time will mend

Our pain

So it's nineteen seventy-nine

And we don't go by the book

We all eat as one—

Wife, friend, and son—

And I sing out as they cook

I love my tight-knit family

I love the way they cook linguine

Isn't it great? We're all so swell

Such a dear clientele

I swear we're gonna come through it

I fear we'll probably fight

But nothing's impossible

Live by your wit—

Kid, wife, and lover will have to admit

I was right

I cushioned the fall

I want it all

I want it all

I want it

Love is Blind:

[MENDEL]

Sit down, my dear

I hear you have a problem

I'm sure you're not disgusting or indiscreet

Take a load off your feet

[TRINA]

Thank you

[MENDEL]

Happy or sad?

[TRINA]

Well, I --

[MENDEL]

That's a question with no answer

Let's not discuss the weather, let's face the facts

Marvin's wife must relax

[TRINA]

Love isn't sex

That's a thing my husband once told me

Marvin, my ex-

You've seen him for years-

Told me over the phone to tell you my fears

Do you only treat queers?

[MENDEL (spoken)]

No

(sung)

Breathe deep, my dear

You'll find me understanding

Your pain is a priori

Unfold your untold story

Now to break bread

Loosen your glands

Put your head in my hands

[TRINA]

I'm everything he wanted

It's time I put it all together

The date was set

My father let me marry

I married. I...

Then Marvin came from work

Sat me down on the bed

He told me how he loved me

How needed and/or valued me

I have

[MENDEL]

What?

[TRINA / MARVIN]

Syphilis

[TRINA]

He said

[MENDEL]

Good

[TRINA]

I have

[MENDEL]

Yes?

[TRINA /MARVIN]

Syphilis

[TRINA]

It's true

[MENDEL]

Good

[TRINA]

I had something rotten

Which appears though now it's well forgotten

[MARVIN]

Maybe, darling, so do you

[TRINA]

Maybe, darling, so do you

[TRINA]

I am probably diseased

[MENDEL]

You're a lovely girl

[TRINA]

And so easily appeased

[MENDEL]

What a lovely girl, though she's possibly diseased

[TRINA]

He took pains to not excite us

He explains I've

[TRINA / MARVIN]

Hepatitis

[TRINA]

Too

[MARVIN, JASON, AND WHIZZER]

Hepa hepa hepatitis hepatitis hepatitis

[MENDEL]

Love is blind

Love can tell a million stories

Love's unkind

Spiteful in a million ways

[TRINA]

Then I stayed home from work

Took good care of my men

They faked despair, they wet their bed

They combed their hair, they acted dead

One said

[MENDEL]

Yes?

[JASON]

Daddy is a prick

[MENDEL]

What?

[TRINA]

He said

[MENDEL]

Yes?

[JASON]

Daddy isn't mine

[MENDEL]

Good

[TRINA]

He filled my coats

With candies and notes

With "Will you be my valentine?"

[MARVIN (To Whizzer)]

Will you be my valentine?

[TRINA]

This gets harder to believe

[MENDEL]

You're a damaged girl

[TRINA]

I've a scalpel up my sleeve

[FOUR MEN]

What a damaged girl

[MENDEL]

Do not ever slit your wrists

[TRINA]

I've missed him; he's still missing

Don't make noise, but daddy's kissing

Boys

[ALL]

Petty, petty, petty, petty

[MENDEL AND TRINA]

Love is blind

Love can tell a million stories

Love's unkind

Spiteful in a million ways

[ALL]

Love is blind

Love can tell a million stories

Love's unkind

Spiteful in a million ways

[Others (Trina, Mendel, Jason, Whizzer)]

(Love x6)

[MARVIN]

Love is crazy

Love is often boring

Love stinks

Love is pretty often debris

When you find

What you find.

Then never, never, never, never, never

Do it over again

Love reads like a bad biography

All the names are changed to protect the innocent

[ALL]

Love is blind

[MENDEL]

My name is Mendel

I treat her husband

I think she's very insecure

But so am I

I've never married

Work, work is my passion

Or perhaps that's an alibi

[MARVIN]

Yeah, perhaps it is

[MENDEL]

Yeah, I don't care to discuss it

I think she's charming

I think she's needy

In just five sessions on my couch

She'll be like new

[ALL]

His name is Mendel

[WHIZZER]

Ah-ah

[MENDEL]

Return next Friday

I admit I admire you

## Trivia

* Syphilis and Hepatitis are STDs. Syphilis is a bacterial contamination that causes sores, and Hepatitis is a general term that refers to diseases that cause inflammation of the liver.
* It is unknown if Marvin actually has Syphilis and Hepatitis, or if he's using them as an excuse to not have sex with Trina.