Miracle Lyrics - Matilda The Musical London Cast Recording - Matilda London Cast

LAVENDER 

My mummy says I'm a miracle. 

REGINALD 

My daddy says I'm his special little guy. 

ALICE 

I am a princess! 

BRUCE 

And I am a prince. 

LAVENDER, AMANDA, ALICE, HORTENSIA 

Mum says I'm an angel sent down from the sky... 

BRUCE, ERIC, REGINALD 

My daddy says I'm his special little soldier, 

No one is as handsome, strong as me. 

It's true he indulges my tendency to bulge 

But I'm his little soldier! so 

Hup, two, four, three! 

AMANDA, HORTENSIA 

My mummy says I'm a miracle, 

One look at my face, and it's plain to see. 

Ever since the day Doc chopped the umbilical cord, 

It's been clear there's no peer for a miracle like me! 

NIGEL, TOMMY 

My daddy says I'm his special little soldier, 

No one is as bold or tough as me. 

Has my daddy told ya, 

One day when I'm older, 

I can be a soldier 

And shoot you in the face! 

TEACHER 

One can hardly move for beauty and brilliance these days. 

It seems that there are millions of these one-in-a-millions 

these days 

"Specialness" seems de rigueur 

Above average is average - go figure, 

Is it is some modern miracle of calculus, 

That such frequent miracles don't render each one un- 

miraculous. 

ALL KIDS 

My mummy says I'm a miracle, 

One look at my face and it's plain to see. 

Ever since the day Doc chopped the umbilical cord, 

It's been clear there's no peer for a miracle like me! 

LAVENDER 

My mummy says I'm a precious barreliNA! 

She has never seen A prettier barreliNA 

She says if I'm keen, I have to cut down on the cream, 

But I'm a barreliNA, so give me more cake! 

MOTHER (1) & FATHER (2) 

Take another picture of our angel in that costume that I made... 

MOTHER (1) 

The role of "tree" has never been portrayed with such 

convincing sway. 

MOTHER (2) 

That's right, honey, look at mummy! 

FATHER (2) 

Don't put honey on your brother 

MOTHER (2) 

Smile for mummy; smile for mother! 

FATHER (2) 

I think she blinked 

MOTHER (2) 

Well, take another! 

FATHER (3) 

Have you seen his school report? He got a 'C' on his 

report! 

MOTHER (3) 

What?! 

FATHER (3) 

We'll have to change his school, the teacher's clearly 

falling short. 

MOTHER (1) 

She's just delightful. 

FATHER (1) 

So hilarious and 

MOTHER (1) & FATHER (1) 

Insightful. 

ALL PARENTS 

Might she be a little brighter than the norm? 

I know to boys it's frightful form! 

ALL CHILDREN & ALL PARENTS 

My mummy says I'm a miracle 

One look at my face and it's plain to see. 

Ever since the day Doc chopped the umbilical cord, 

It's been clear there's no peer for a miracle like me! 

My mummy says I'm a miracle 

That I'm as tiny and as shiny as a mirror ball. 

You can be all cynical, but it's a truth empirical. 

There's never been a miracle, a miracle, a miracle as me! 

[DIALOGUE] 

DOCTOR (Spoken) 

A baby, Mrs. Wormwood, a child, the most 

precious gift the natural world can 

bestow upon us, has been handed to you. A 

brand new human being, a life, a person. 

A wonderful new person is about to come 

into your life and bring you love and 

magic and happiness and wonder. 

MRS. WORMWOOD (Spoken) 

Ooooowwwwwww! Bloody 'ell! 

DOCTOR 

Every life I bring into this world restores my faith in humankind. 

MIDWIFE (Spoken) 

Push Mrs. Wormwood, push! 

MRS. WORMWOOD (Spoken) 

I'll push you in a minute! 

DOCTOR 

Each new-born life, a canvas yet unpainted... 

This still unbroken skin... 

This uncorrupted mind... 

Every life is unbelievably unlikely. 

The chances of existence, 

Almost infinitely small. 

The most common thing in life is life, 

(Baby cries) 

DOCTOR 

And yet every single life, 

Every new life is a miracle! Miracle! 

[DIALOGUE] 

MRS. WORMWOOD (spoken) 

This is the worst day of my life! 

MRS. WORMWOOD 

Oh, my undercarriage doesn't feel quite normal. 

My skin looks just revolting in this foul fluorescent 

light, 

And this gown is nothing like the semi-formal, semi-Spanish gown I should be wearing in the semi-finals tonight. 

I should be dancing the tarantella 

Qui mon fella italiano 

Not dressed in hospital cotton, 

With a smarting front bottom, 

And this 

Horrible... 

DOCTOR 

Miracle! 

MRS. WORMWOOD 

Smelly little... 

DOCTOR 

Miracle! 

MRS. WORMWOOD 

Weakly little ball of fat! 

MR. WORMWOOD 

What the hell was that? 

MRS. WORMWOOD 

Will someone give this thing a bottle? 

MR. WORMWOOD 

Or swap it for a later model? 

MR. WORMWOOD, MRS. WORMWOOD 

Why do bad things always happen to good people? 

Fine upstanding citizens like you and me? 

Why when we've done nothing wrong, 

Should this disaster come along? 

This horrible, weird looking... 

MRS. WORMWOOD 

Hairy little stinky thing 

MR. WORMWOOD 

With no sign of a winky-ding at all 

DOCTOR 

Miracle, miracle, a miracle; every life's a miracle, 

Beautiful miracle I have ever seen... 

MR. WORMWOOD 

I can't find his frank and beans... 

DOCTOR, ADULTS 

Every life is unbelievably unlikely. 

The chances of existence, almost infinitely small. 

The most common thing in life is life, 

And yet every single life, every new life is a miracle! 

Miracle! Miracle! 

ALL CHILDREN 

My mummy says I'm a miracle 

One look at my face and it's plain to see. 

Ever since the day Doc chopped the umbilical cord, 

It's been clear there's no peer for a miracle like me! 

My mummy says I'm a miracle 

That I'm as tiny and as shiny as a mirror ball. 

You can be all cynical, but it's a truth empirical. 

There's never been a miracle, a miracle, a miracle as- 

MATILDA 

My mummy says I'm a lousy little worm 

My daddy says I'm a bore. 

My mummy says I'm a jumped-up little germ, 

That kids like me should be against the law. 

My daddy says I should learn to shut my pie hole 

No one likes a smart-mouthed girl like me 

Mum says I'm a good case for population control 

Dad says I should watch more TV...