A Marriage Proposal/A Tight-Knit Family - Reprise

A Marriage Proposal/A Tight-Knit Family - Reprise is the ninth song in act one of Falsettos. It follows Please Come to Our House/Jason's Therapy, and is followed Trina's Song/March of the Falsettos/Trina's Song - Reprise.

## A Marriage Proposal/A Tight-Knit Family - Reprise

### Albums

Falsettos (2016 Broadway Cast Recording)March of the Falsettos

### Next Song

Trina's Song/March of the Falsettos/Trina's Song - Reprise

### Sung By

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

## Lyrics

**A Marriage Proposal**

[JASON, spoken]

This is how you make a marriage proposal

[MENDEL]

I love you, dear

I think you're swell

You're never near me close enough to tell

If I'm delightful or not

I crave your wrist

I praise your thigh

There's not a guy

There's not a piece of paper

There's not a man in pants

Who could love you the same as I!

Oftentimes, lovers are crazy people

Sometimes they kill each other

Just like a biblical brother

Did to his biblical brother

Back in biblical times

[TRINA, spoken]

Biblical times?

[MARVIN, spoken]

Biblical times?

[MENDEL, spoken]

Biblical times

[sung]

Oh, those biblical times!

I love your eyes

I love your face

I want you by my side to take my place

If I get sick or detained

Don't touch your hair, you're perfect

Don't start to cry

There's not a guy

There's not a horse or zebra

There's not a giant man

Who could love you the same as I!

Forget that giant man

He can't love you the same as I!

I'm not a giant man

[TRINA, spoken]

Good

[MENDEL]

But I'll love you until

Love you until

I die!

**Tight-Knit Family - Reprise**

[MARVIN]

Well, the situation's this;

I don't want to cause a stink

I divorced my wife

She dried her eyes

Then she ran off with my shrink

But I want a tight-knit family

I want a wife who knows what love is

Maybe she does, I'm too damn peeved

Self-absorbed

Self-deceived

Who knows?

[MENDEL]

I should worry what he says

Like his words could hurt me worse

Marvin acts bereft

My acts of theft

Are incredibly perverse

[MARVIN]

You said it

[MENDEL]

It's embarrassing

But I've got a nice, tight family

Son with a brain and nice, bright mother

Yes, I feel guilt. Yes, I'm annoyed

So was Jung, so was Freud!

But I, I know you'll come through it

[MARVIN]

I...I can't believe she loves you

[MENDEL]

If so, you'll end looking rich

[MARVIN]

Why, I'm sure she cannot love you!

But nothing's impossible!

[MENDEL]

Look who's got power

[MARVIN]

Ah, King of the Losers!

[MENDEL]

At eighty an hour!

He can bitch

I can stall

[MARVIN]

I want

[MENDEL]

I've got

[MARVIN]

I want

[BOTH]

It all!

I'm sure we're gonna come through it!

No doubt, the bastard prepares!

We're needy and wanting

We're greedy as swine!

[MENDEL]

I just got a family

[MARVIN]

The family was mine!

[BOTH]

But he dares

Dares to brawl?

[MENDEL/MARVIN]

I got it all!/I want it all!

I got it all!/I want it all!

I got it all!/I want it all!

## Trivia

* Mendel names several things that could never love Trina as much as he does. The piece of paper refers to a marriage certificate. The man in pants refers to Marvin, as Mendel is making a reference to "In Trousers". Horse and Zebra are slang for gay and straight men. The Giant Man is God, which is quite the claim from Mendel.
* The biblical brothers Mendel mentions are probably Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve.
* Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud were two famous psychologists who allegedly had relationships with their patients. Just like Mendel.