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WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN from the Broadway musical TOOTSIE
Piano Accompaniment in Bb Major.
Turn on CC/Subtitles for Karaoke lyrics.

What's Gonna Happen is a song from the Broadway show Tootsie. The music and lyrics were written by David Yazbek. It was sung on the Original Cast Recording by Sarah Stiles with Santino Fontana

You can listen to their version of the song here youtube.com/watch?v=CexqYQcprr8

I have played this by ear, as there was no sheet music available at the time I recorded the song.

Lyrics :
[SANDY LESTER]
I know what's gonna happen
I'll try to go to bed
With fear of failure flapping
Like a fruit bat in my head

I'll sleep for half an hour
The clock will ring at six
I'll wake up in the shower with a stomach full of bricks
So I won't have any breakfast maybe just a little tea
Like when you have to go and get a colonoscopy
Which incidentally isn't half as disconcerting or upsetting
As going for a part you know there's no way that you're getting

But anyway I'm heading downtown for the audition
Where everything I am dreading will be coming to fruition
And here's what's gonna happen
I'll walk in weak with hunger
And there's a dozen girls
Who look like me but ten years younger

I'll go into the bathroom
And I'll try to vocalize
And I'll be singing *vocalizes*
But I'll be hearing Sandy sucks
She really sucks, she really, really, really blows
And she's old, and she's lame
And then someone calls my name

And here's what happens
I'll walk into the room
The gross fluorescent lighting is inviting as a tomb
And everybody smiles, they'll say its good to see ya
But all I see is judges
And they'll all look like Scalia

And then a little banter as they look me up and down
And somewhere through the fog of insecurity and hate
I'll try to convince them that I'm charming
And I'm clever and I'm fun to have around

But I’m starting to unravel

In my head I hear the gavel

Guilty!
They're gonna throw the book at me 'cause I'm
Guilty!
Of coming in and wasting all their time
Guilty!
Of almost every other show biz crime
Not young enough!
Not thin enough!
Not pretty enough!
Not good enough!

We hereby sentence you to a lifetime of waiting tables and debilitating self-loathing

But wait now someone's asking
So can we hear your voice?
I make a lame attempt at humor: Do I have a choice?
I nod at the pianist, he's always wearing black
He's always in a turtleneck with dandruff on his back

No sooner do I get my note and open up my trap
Then inevitably some mealy-mouthed assistant director's thumbs are all over his iPhone
And I know he's probably tweeting LOL
This girl is crap
She's a fake
She's a phony
She could never win a Tony

And now I'm in a place I know quite well
I've left the world and I've entered hell
I'm this far away from a fainting spell

But just before I die
I finish the song
Which I oversell
Somebody says thanks
And wishes me well
The next thing I know
I'm at Taco Bell
Stuffing my face with meat

I'm trying to take it slowly
I'm trying to be my best
I'm trying to be more holy
Less bitter and depressed
Oh! I'm reading Eckhart Tolle
He makes a lot of sense
I bought a Buddhist bowl
He says he it helps you be less tense

It doesn't do a thing for me
I sit there on the floor
And watch a vivid sequence of humiliating incidents from my past go by
And think what kind of masochist keeps coming back for more

When she knows what's gonna happen
Cuz it never doesn't happen
Cuz it always, always, always

No! I know what's gonna happen
Don't tell me that I don’t

And don’t say that I’ll rise to the occasion cuz I won't
And don’t say I’ve got talent

And don't say I got heart
And don't say that I'm clever

Cuz I know I’m pretty smart
I'm smart enough to know
That I'm too stupid to admit
That I can't survive a diet
That consists of eating sh**

The trick is knowing when to pack your bags and say that’s it
You know what's gonna happen
I know what's gonna happen
Here's what's gonna happen
I quit!
I quit!
I quit!
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