"A Marriage Proposal / A Tight-Knit Family" lyrics

[JASON:]
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:]
Biblical times?

[MARVIN:]
Biblical times?

[MENDEL:]
Biblical times

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:]
Good

[MENDEL:]
But I'll love you until
Love you until
I die!

[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:]
I got it all!
I got it all!
I got it all!

[MARVIN:]
I want it all!
I want it all!
I want it all!