if A BEAUTIFUL MIND was a musical

Nash to Charles and Marcee ...

(verse)

YOU CAME TO BE, TO ME, YOU SEE,

THE WAY IDEAS CAME, MATHEMATICALLY.

SO, MY FRIEND, I TOOK YOU SERIOUSLY.

BUT, GRADUALLY,

I CAN, INTELLECTUALLY AND FACTUALLY,

REJECT SOME OF THE DELUSIONALLY

INDUCED LINES OF THINKING THAT I'VE HELD, CHARACTERISTICALLY.

(chorus 1)

IRRATIONAL

MY IDEAS ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL

THE VOICES CAME SOMEHOW

THOUGHT THEY WERE ANGELS I COULD NOT DISMISS

BUT, MY SUBCONSCIOUS WAS WHAT I COULD NOT RESIST

I KNOW THIS NOW

I NOW KNOW THIS

(verse 2)

A QUALITY OF CONTIGUITY:

SIMPLICITY IS PRIZED IN PERSONALITY

GENTILITY: PROCLIVITY TOWARDS AFFABILITY

WHILE EXCITABILITY'S AKIN TO A VULGARITY

A SHARED MENTALITY

SANITY: A FORM OF OUR CONFORMITY

RATIONALITY: A LIMIT ON A PERSON'S RELATIVITY

(chorus 2)

IRRATIONAL

MY IDEAS ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL

THE VOICES STILL COME NOW

THEY ARE PERSUASIVE AND HARD TO DISMISS

IT'S MY SUBCONSCIOUS CHATTER I CANNOT RESIST

WHAT TO DO NOW,

NOW THAT I KNOW THIS?

(bridge)

IN MADNESS,

I THOUGHT MYSELF THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON

AS I WOULD OBSESS,

IT WAS MY IMPORTANCE I'D IMMERSE IN

IF I CAN THINK MYSELF A HUMAN, IN A HUMAN BEING'S DOMAIN

MAYBE I CAN FIX THIS ILLNESS, ALL THE STRAIN, THE PAIN; BE SANE

(chorus 3)

IRRATIONAL

MY IDEAS ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL

THE VOICES CAN COME NOW

THEY MAY BE LOUD, BE AGGRESSIVE, VERY HARD TO DISMISS

IT'S JUST SUBCONSCIOUS CHATTER I'LL HAVE TO RESIST

I'M READY NOW,

NOW THAT I KNOW THIS