The My Eyes Are Fully Open Lyrics – Pirates of Penzance Cast

The My Eyes Are Fully Open Text

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Frederic:
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation/I shall go at once to Mabel and I'll make her an oration./ I will tell her that I'm bound by duty and by moral senses/ and I don't know what to do about the pending consequences./ Now I do not wish to perish by the sword or by the dagger/ but a pirate may indulge a little pardonable swagger/ and a word or two of compliment, my vanity would flatter,/ but I've got to go tonight so it really doesn't matter!

Pirate King:
So it really doesn't matter (matter matter matter matter)
Ruth: So it really doesn't matter (matter matter matter matter)
All: So it really doesn't matter, so it really doesn't matter, so it really doesn't matter matter matter matter matter!

Ruth:
If I were not a little mad, and generally silly/ I should give you my advice upon the subject, willy-nillly!/ I would show you in a moment how to grapple with the question/ and you'd really be astonished by the force of my suggestion!/ On the subject I will write you a most valuable letter/ full of excellent suggestions when I feel a little better,/ but at present I'm afraid I am as mad as any hatter,/ so I'll sing this song from Ruddigore, and it really doesn't matter!

Frederic:
What we sing just doesn't matter (matter matter matter matter) Pirate King: What we sing just doesn't matter (matter matter matter matter)

All:
What we song just doesn't matter, what we sing just doesn't matter, what we sing just doesn't matter matter matter matter matter!

Pirate King:
If I had been so lucky as to have a steady mother/ who could talk to me as we are talking now to one another,/ who could give me good advice when she discovered I was erring/ (which is just the very favor on which you I am conferring)/ my existence might have made a very interesting idyll/ and I might've lived and died a rather decent indiwiddle./ This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter!

All:
This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter! This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter!