Song #1: Dream a Little Harder

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{I apologize for not posting in a while. Life happened.}


JAFAR: I look around the kingdom and see the desperation and the devastation that persists no matter what I do... but today could be the day I finally make a difference and all the grateful citizens will say to me...


CITIZENS (alternating): Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!


{Dialogue}


MALE CITIZEN: Why don't we have enough to eat?


BAKER: Why are we dying in the street?


MOTHER: Why does my baby always cry?


ORPHAN: Why did my mommy have to die?


CITIZENS (alternating): Mine too! Mine too! Mine too! Mine too! Mine too!


MALE CITIZEN: The answer here is crystal clear: Jafar, that ugly old vizier! He's the reason for our many woes...


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: Though we're upset, we shouldn't fret. We mustn't let ourselves forget the saying every child raised within the kingdom knows: You've got to dream a little harder when life won't go your way. Simply dream a little harder, trust me when I say that when you dream a little harder, you're sure to follow through... 'Cause if you're good and you're attractive, no need to be proactive...


CITIZENS: Good things will just happen to you!


{Dialogue}


BAKER: Why is the kingdom plagued by theft?


LIBRARIAN: Why are there no more good jobs left?


MOTHER: Why does the sun go down at night?


ORPHAN: Why is everyone in the kingdom white?


LIBRARIAN: Um, Jafar?


CITIZENS (alternating): Jafar! Jafar! Jafar!


MALE CITIZEN: No man who's just could ever trust a face that triggers such disgust.


MOTHER: His twisted features give me such a chill.


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: So let us pray that one fine day that evil man will go away.


CITIZENS: 'Cause if we want it bad enough, he will...


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: For you...


MALE CITIZEN 2: Dream a little harder.


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: You'll get what you desire.


FEMALE CITIZEN: Dream a little harder.


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: When things are looking dire, if you dream a little harder, success is guaranteed. If you are sure of your intention, some magic intervention...


CITIZENS: Will give you the edge that you need.


{Dialogue}


JAFAR: I know that I'm no prize. I'm not so easy on the eyes. I can't rely on looks to get me by... but ugliness permits a man to use his wits, 'cause pretty people never have to try... I hear the people whisper as I walk about the streets. I know they call me...


CITIZENS: Ugly old Jafar!


JAFAR: What I call planning, they call scheming. What I call delusion, they call dreaming...  Why am I the only one who sees things as they are?


CITIZENS: Wish a little stronger...


BELLE: I need six eggs.


JAFAR: Why not buy some?


CITIZENS: Hope a little bigger...


BAKER: I want to fly!


JAFAR: That's unrealistic.


CITIZENS: Think a little louder...


LIBRARIAN: I want to be a cat.


JAFAR: What?


LIBRARIAN: Fuck you.


CITIZENS: Whistle while you swallow a spoon full of sugar and your dream will come true upon a star...


MALE CITIZEN: Dream hard enough, my friend. Jafar will meet a violent end. He could be skewered by a sailing ship...


MALE CITIZEN 2: Or hanged in tangled jungle vines...


OPTIMISTIC FEMALE CITIZEN: Or eaten by hyenas...


BAKER: Or he'll plummet to his death from a castle...


MALE CITIZEN: A clock...


CITIZENS: Or a cliff. And if we dream a little harder... our patience and our honor will rid us of that ugly old Jafar!


MALE CITIZEN: Fuck you!

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