Chords for The Making of SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical Original Cast Recording

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We're all getting back together for a few [E] days to record this album.
[B] It's such _ a great score.
It feels so awesome to [C#] finally be recording this [G#m] music.
Broadway reflects pop music and [E] we have an [D] eclectic score.
We have an incredible group of artists that have written [F] songs for the musical.
[E] 20 pop and rock icons have all [D] given their time.
Everyone [G] from Lady [G#] Antebellum to David [E] Bowie to the [A] Plain White Teas, Panic!
at the Disco,
and each one of those bands has such [D] a unique style.
Every song really fits [A] into the SpongeBob story so well.
[Gm] It's amazing to get all those different genres.
That was a real big point from our director [G] Tina Landau.
Can we do this for the stage?
Absolutely they can.
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[G] My [D] job on the SpongeBob musical really [G] begins making sure that the [C] drama of the show is
translating onto the record. _ _ _ _ _
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Simple Sponge is [C] sort of the I want song.
[G] It's SpongeBob saying let me do this, let me have a part in saving the town that I love.
And fighting his inner demons really that tell him that [C] he's [B] a simple sponge and can't do it.
That he's not [E] good enough.
Now at last I have found a way, [B] a way to save this town I love.
I am [G] not [A] a simple _
_ [B] sponge. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] This _ is weird.
You're not [G] _
hallucinating this sea anemone chorus line at all.
I'm not?
You're not [Dm] a loser.
[Bm] _ I [C] love [D#] I'm not a loser.
[E] Just [D#] how big and gargantuan [Dm] that number [C] is.
It's not the piece that no [E] one cares.
Okay.
[F] You're not [A#] a failure.
_ If I say [C#] everything about Broadway [D#] has been thrown [G#] at this number, the song [D#] just grows
and grows and grows and becomes the biggest Broadway _ [D] number you've ever seen on a stage [C] before.
They Might Be Giants wrote _ [C#] just the best song [D#] and I love [D] doing it every night.
It's amazing how a song [Cm] written by a rock star can sound on a piano [Gm] but then when the
magic of Tom Kitt and the orchestra [G#] get involved, it changes a [G] song and [F] just makes it so [G] great. _
_ _ [Bm] _ You're [D#m] a loser.
You're not [F#] a _ loser.
[C] They [A#m] don't not like me [F] at all.
I don't not [D#m] leave the house.
[F#m] Leave the house.
Cause I don't _ _ [Fm] prefer to stay [A#] at home. _ _ _
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If the world is gonna end tomorrow, wallowing in sorrow, won't get us anywhere, [F#] you'll [C#] find
all the [D#]
strength you [C#] need is inside.
Hero is My Middle Name is [G#] a song that [C#] comes when [B] SpongeBob needs to bolster Sandy and
really get her on the team to help save [E]
Bikini Bottom.
_ _ [B] _ _ [C#m] Hero [A] is my middle [E] name.
_ _ [B] _ _ [C#m] Fixing [A] trouble is my [E] game.
[B] _ _ [C#m] Just give it [A] the old know [F#m]-how.
It's a [G#m]
great song to rock [E] out to.
Sort of like our [B] anthem.
It's a [A] really fun song to sing and we [E] just sort of find our inner hero.
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_ [E] _ [Bm] My machines, [C#] they made a [B] real [E] prediction.
It's not [B] science fiction.
[C#m] There's nothing [Bm] we can do [A] at [E] all.
Recording the [F#m] cast album, [E] it's a different [B] kind of pressure.
We're able to just really focus on the music without all of the backflips and things that
they're doing on [E] stage.
We're not [G#] acting and running [A] around on stage.
We [B] are acting but we're standing [C#] in a booth.
So it's a [E] different experience.
I'm used to running around and doing the splits and jumping up [A] and down.
So this [F#m] is a little more stationary.
Cause you gotta sing into the mic. _ _ _
_ _ [A] Good morning world and all who inhabit it.
_ _ Jump out [F#m] of bed, [A] mix up a breakfast for my favorite pet [F#m] snail.
[B] _ _ Full [F#] steam ahead.
Bikini Bottom Day is written by the wonderful Jonathan Colton.
Writing [C#] an opening number, anyone that's written a musical knows that it's a [A] very,
very difficult, challenging task to get that exactly right in terms of something that [G#] feels
like it's setting the show off [D] in the right way.
It's introducing us to all the characters [A] and the world.
And he just nailed it.
And [G] who's the lucky sponge in the mirror [A] who is living his [G] dream?
Who's always extra careful [A] with his dental hygiene?
[Bm] Gary, it's [E] me.
Happy just to be [A] here in the world [E] renowned.
[A] _ [E] I think it comes as a surprise to some people.
They're [C#m] like, how are there [A] so many different [F#] writers in the show?
But I think a really [E] cool thing about it is that it's sort of [A] cinematic.
I missed a snack.
Tom [E] Kitt's a genius.
He's taken this score of [G#] eclectic songwriters [A] and composers and made it feel like a unified
[Bm] score without losing any of [A] the feel of the artist who wrote it.
It's really [G] quite a responsibility and an honor to [D#] get to collaborate with these [Em] artists.
Hopefully I am serving them and serving [D] SpongeBob.
That's really [Bm] the goal.
And if they're happy, [E] then I'm happy.
Spending all day underneath [A] my favorite rock.
Bikini bottom.
I could go down the list and just say, oh, I was a fan, fan, [B]
fan, fan before I came to this project.
So it's really an extraordinary experience [C#] for me.
_ _ In the world renowned.
_ Bikini bottom.
You [D#] kind of have to step back and go, we're talking about starfish and squids and the
yellow sponge saving the [C#] day.
So it is all a bit ridiculous, but there has [A#] to be a point and a message.
[F#] Tina Landau has honed in [C#] on that with a message of hope.
It's a terrible, [D#] incredible, _ [F#] exceptional, _ _ _ _ extraordinary.
_ _ Bikini bottom.
[D#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ This [C#] process of making a musical with artists like we have in the show, _ really debuting
these songs and putting them out to the world.
[F#] Bikini bottom.
Bikini _ [G#] bottom. Bikini [C#] bottom.
Bikini bottom.
Bikini bottom. Bikini bottom. Bikini bottom. Bikini bottom. Bikini bottom.
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