"According to Plan" is a song in Tim Burton's 2005 animated film Corpse Bride. It is the first song played in the beginning of the movie that is sung Van Dart and Everglot families about the marriage of their children.
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Nell: It's a beautiful day
William: It's a rather nice day
Nell: A day for a glorious wedding
William: A rehearsal, my dear, to be perfectly clear
Nell: A rehearsal for a glorious wedding
William: Assuming nothing happens that we don't really know
Nell: That nothing unexpected interferes with the show
Both:
And that's why everything, every last little thing
Every single tiny microscopic little thing must go
Nell: According to plan
William: Our son will be married
Nell: According to plan
William: Our family carried
Both: We'll go right into to the heights of society
Nell: To the costume balls
William: In the hallowed halls
Nell: Rubbing elbows with the finest
William: Having crumpets with her highness
Both:
We'll be there, we'll be seen, having tea with the queen
We'll forget everything
That we've ever ever been
Maudeline: It's a terrible day
Finis: Now don't be that way
Maudeline: It's a terrible day for a wedding
Finis: It's a sad, sad state of affairs we're in
Maudeline: That has led to this ominous wedding
Finis: How could our family have come to this?
Both: To marry off our daughter to the noveaux-rich
Maudeline: They're so common
Finis: So coarse
Maudeline: Oh, it couldn't be worse
Finis:
It couldn't be worse?
I'm afraid I disagree
They could be land-rich bankrupt aristocracy
Without a penny to their name just like you and me
Both: And that's why everything, every last little thing
Every single tiny microscopic little thing must go
Maudeline:According to plan
Finis: Our daughter will wed
Maudeline: According to plan
Finis: Our family led
Both:
From the depths of deepest poverty
To the noble realm
Of our ancestry
And who'd have guessed in a million years that our daughter, with the face
Of an otter in disgrace
Would provide our ticket to our rightful place?
Maudeline:
Marriage is a partnership
A little tit for tat
You'd think a lifetime watching us might have taught her that
Might have taught her that
Both:
Everything must be perfect
Everything must be perfect
Everything must be perfect
Everything must be perfect, perfect
All:
That's why everything, every last little thing
Every single tiny microscopic little thing must go
According to plan
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