Jonathan Larson – Therapy (ft. Amy Spanger & Raúl Esparza) (Audio, Lyrics)

Throwback to 2001 when Jonathan Larson’s “Therapy” song with Amy Spanger & Raúl Esparza is re-released off the ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ project. The track was produced by Jeffrey Lesser. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, mp3 download.

Jonathan Larson Therapy

As Jonathan has trouble with his girlfriend over his struggles to finish his show in time for its workshop, the concert version of him and his backup singer act out a couples therapy session and the cliches of that world.

Jonathan Larson – Therapy (ft. Amy Spanger & Raúl Esparza) (prod. Jeffrey Lesser)

Lyrics

[SUSAN (SPOKEN)]
Are you saying we can’t talk?

[JON (SPOKEN)]
Are you saying we’re not talking?

[SUSAN (SPOKEN)]
What are you saying?

[JON (SPOKEN)]
What are you saying?
I’m saying:

[JON]
I feel bad, that you feel bad
About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad
About what I said, about what you said
About me not being able to share a feeling

[SUSAN]
If I thought that what you thought
Was that I hadn’t thought about sharing my thoughts
Then my reaction to your reaction, to my reaction
Would have been more revealing

[JON]
I was afraid that you’d be afraid
If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy
If you don’t have a problem with my problem
Maybe the problem’s simply co-dependency

[SUSAN]
Yes I know, that now you know
That I didn’t know, that you didn’t know
That when I said, “No,” I meant, “Yes, I know”
And that now I know that you knew, that I knew you adored me

[JON]
I was wrong to—

[SUSAN]
Say you were wrong to—

[JON]
Say I was wrong about—

[SUSAN]
You being wrong

[JON]
When you rang to say that—

[SUSAN]
The ring was the wrong thing to bring—

[JON]
If I meant what I said
When I said, “Rings bored me”

[JON & SUSAN]
I’m not mad that you got mad that I got mad
When you said I should go drop dead

[JON]
If I were you and I’d done what I’d done
I’d do what you did
When I gave you the ring
Having said what I said

[JON]
[SUSAN]
I feel bad, that you feel bad
I feel badly
About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad
about you
About what I said, about what you said
Feeling badly about me
About me not being able to share a feeling
Feeling badly about you
I thought
If I thought that what you thought
you thought
Was that I hadn’t thought about sharing my thoughts
I reacted shallowly
Then my reaction to your reaction, to my reaction
When I reacted to you
Would have been more revealing
I’m not mad
You got mad
I’m not mad that you got mad that I got mad
Go drop dead
When you said I should go drop dead
If I were you and I’d done what I’d done
If I were you
I’d do what you did
When I gave you the ring
But I’m not you
Having said what I said
Said what I said
[JON]
But now it’s out in the open

[SUSAN]
Now it’s off our chest

[JON & SUSAN]
Now it’s 4AM
And we have therapy tomorrow
It’s too late to screw
So let’s just get some rest