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Take It Like A Man Lyrics

EMMETT
What is this place?

ELLE
It's called... a department store

EMMETT
It's... it's beautiful

ELLE
SHHH

First a deep breath
Take it all in
Feel all those halogens warming your skin
Smell how they pump in pure oxygen
See they care

SALESPERSON
Love? EMMETT
Excuse me?

SALESPERSON
Love. The new frangrence from Chanel

EMMETT
Oh. No thank you

ELLE
I know you're scared
Nevertheless
Think of the people you want to impress
Swallow your pride for me, just nod yes
And prepare
Cause' something's in the air

EMMETT
I think it's love

ELLE
Exactly!
Here you'll become what you're supposed to be
You think you can't, but you can
Think of the guy you want most to be
Here's your chance to make it
So take it like a man

EMMETT
What does she want?
Not really sure
Why can't we leave things the way that they were?
Why can I never say no to her?
What’s that smell?

SALESPERSON
Subtext, by Calvin Klein

EMMETT
That I don’t like,
That’s kind of neat
Guys who wear that get beat up on my street
Still I’ve come this far I can’t retreat in my shell
I'm in the hands of Elle!
What the hell?

BOTH
Here you’ll become what your suppose to be
You think you can’t, but you can
Think of the guy you want most to be
Here’s your chance to make it
So take it like a man

ELLE
God, I love shopping for guys!

EMMET
Okay this is strange

ELLE
Watching the change right before my eyes

EMMETT
Don’t watch me change

ELLE
Look at him striking a pose
His confidence grows
He'll bloom like a rose

EMMETT
Its just clothes

ELLE
God I love shopping for men

EMMETT
Okay, this is nice

ELLE
They walk in a two
They walk out a ten

EMMETT
Is this the price?

ELLE
Don’t worry this is my treat,
There’s someone I’d like you to meet

BOTH
Whoa

EMMETT
I look like Warner

ELLE
Yeah

EMMETT
But it’s just me

ELLE
That’s the best part
The outside is new
But now it reflects, what’s already in you
Couldn’t change that if I wanted to
And I…do not

EMMETT
Thank You

ELLE
No, Thank You
This is no gift,
It’s payment in kind,
Cause you saw beyond all the blonde to my mind
Oh, we’ve got to buy this,
What are you blind?
You look hot…
Is he not hot???

BACKGROUND
He's hot, hot, hot, hot
Here you’ll become what your suppose to be
You think you can’t but you can
Think of the guy you want most to be

EMMETT
Not quite the guy I'd of chose to be
But when she's standing so close to me
I think I like her plan

ELLE
Here’s your chance to make it (Your chance to make it)
So take it like… (So take it like)

EVERYONE
A man!!! (A man!!!)
A man!!! (A man!!!)
A man!!! (A man!!!)
A MAN!!!!

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