ELLE (Spoken) Wait a sec! This is the kind of girl Warner wants! Someone serious! Someone lawyerly! Someone who wears black when nobody's dead! Girls, I have a completely brilliant plan!
(sung)What you want, Warner What you want is me But you need to see me in a brand new domain
Well it's plain, Warner In a different setting, you will see you're getting All of this plus a brain!
I'll meet you there at Harvard with a book in my hand Big sturdy book, big wordy book Full of words I'll understand And right there is where you'll see it too Warner, what you want is right in front of you!
GIRLS What you want
ELLE It's clear
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Right here
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you What you want
ELLE It's clear
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Right here
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
ELLE Step one, he's off to Harvard law So I get in there too
GIRLS Step two!
ELLE Make Warner reassess Impress him with my high IQ
GIRLS Step three!
ELLE We throw a great big wedding
ELLE and GIRLS And invite all Delta Nu!
ADVISOR (Spoken) That's great, nice plan. Now can we think this through? Harvard Law School?
ELLE (Spoken) I have a 4.0 average.
ADVISOR (Spoken) Yeah, in Fashion Merchandising. What makes you think you can do this?
ELLE Love! I'm doing this for love! And love will see me through Yes with love on my side, I can't lose And Harvard can't refuse A love so pure and true Don't lawyers feel love too?
ADVISOR (spoken)Even if they do . . .
(sung)What you want, sweetheart is no easy thing If you're going to swing it, it will wreck your senior spring, yeah it's true First, you'll need an LSAT score of more than 174 So no more parties for you
You'll need a killer essay, or do not even hope And glowing letters from your betters Any chance you know the pope? Oh, no? Too bad cause that would be a coup And you've got a lot of work in front of you
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Yes I know
GIRLS What you want
ELLE Even so
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
GIRLS What you want (Girl, you go!) What you want
ADVISOR (spoken) No, really, go!
GIRLS What you want is right in front of you, front of you
FATHER (spoken) Law school?
ELLE (spoken) Yes, Daddy, law school!
FATHER (spoken) Good God, why? Law school is for boring, ugly, serious people! And you, Button, are none of those things.
(sung) What you want, Button, you just say the word! But what you want's absurd and costs a whole lot of swag And hell why? Button, when you can stay right here Pursue a film career
MOTHER How 'bout a nice burken bag?
FATHER Yes, the east coast is foreign There's no film studios It's cold and dark, no valet parking All the girls have different noses! Christ, BUtton! It's like the damned frontier
PARENTS Tell me what's out there that you can't get right here?
ELLE Guys, love!
PARENTS Love?
ELLE I'm going there for love
PARENTS Good God!
ELLE A love I have to win I can live without sun or valet I can't just walk away Betray what might have been
FATHER Fine, okay, I'll pay your way if you get in!
ALL What you want
PARENTS Make good grades
ALL What you want
PARENTS And it's paid
ALL What you want is right in front of you, front of you