Death is Just Around the Corner -The Addams Family Musical

Since Halloween is coming up, I thought I'd start posting a few songs of what I consider to be spooky/Halloweeny musicals. I thought I'd kick it off with this fun number from The Addams Family musical. In this one, upon learning that her daughter Wednesday plans to get married without permission, a "frazzled" Morticia calms herself with the peaceful reminder that "death is just around the corner." This number is full of great dark humor with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. I invite you to check out the cast album if you haven't, it's actually got some good ones and some great performances by Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, and I hope you join this one! It's technically a group number, but with the instrumental I have, it works well as a solo.
Here are the lyrics:

My daughter's getting married.
I can't believe it's true.
She doesn't ask her parents
before she says "I do".

And what about my husband?
Oblivious, naive.
This evening's getting serious:
these Ohioans won't leave.

But I can't let these latest problems
rob me of my bliss.
For when I'm scared of true disaster,
I remember this:

Death is just around the corner
waiting patiently to strike.
One unplanned electrocution
that's the kind of end
I can comprehend.

When I'm feeling uninspired
Or I need a little spree
I'm reborn knowing
death is just around the corner
coming after me.

Get it? Coroner. Death is just around the... corner.

Death is just around the corner
Waiting high upon the hill
Someone buried in an avalanche (gasp)
that's the kind of gig
I can really dig.

Marriage often disappoints you.
Not each husband is a gem.
So I'll mourn
knowing death is just around the corner
coming after them.

If life's all plums
I'll muddle through some.
But when death comes
I hope it's gruesome. (hot-cha)

Some people die from public stoning,
faulty wiring, faulty zoning,
cherry pits they didn't know were there.
It could be by a jungle cat

A slippery mat

A baseball bat

Perhaps an unsuccessful love affair.

It could be on a speeding train,
It could be underwater.
It could be too much Novocain
or even by your daughter.

Perhaps a bad mosquito bite
A title fight
Religious rite

My darlings, it might even be tonight.

Death is just around the corner
no one's ever been immune.
Turning off a respirator
with a simple click
strenuously quick.

I can face a new tomorrow
if I make it past today.
I feel good saying
death is just around the corner
simply on its way.

Death is just around the corner
and you have to heed the call.
Don't ask why
For your death is just around the corner
You and I
Happy being both the mourned and mourner
Say goodbye
Because death is just around the corner
Coming for us all.

Here's a performance of this one with the fabulous Bebe Neuwirth: