(He Wants To Be) Bad

[JASON]
Hebrew is a language that I don't understand
After six years, I’ve been studying each squiggle and each dot
And one thing I'm not is happy

[MENDEL]
Jason
I am agitato grande
Jason, I am muy disgutante
And muy disappointe
And muy nauseatus
And mimitzarayim
Hotzianu
Dayenu

[ADULTS]
Day-dayenu
Day-dayenu
Day-dayenu-

[MENDEL, spoken]
Stop it, stop-

Have I- Have I found my joie?

[MENDEL, sung]
I'm not gonna tell you what to do
But please reconsider
You aren’t so old
You can't change your stripes
But the gripes

I'm not gonna tell you what to do
I'm not gonna beat you on the forehead
I'm not gonna throw a tantrum and slap your wrists
Because I'm a trained psychiatrist
Now tell me, why-

[JASON]
No!

[MENDEL]
Why are you doing this?
Why are you making us swerve?

[JASON]
When things were bad, I was good, good, good
I was good, good, good
And that was bad

[ADULTS]
He wants to be bad

[JASON]
I want to be bad
[ADULTS (and JASON)]
He wants to be be (bad, bad, bad)
He wants to repulse us
(Bad!)
And pay us back and slap us in the face

[JASON]
I want to be bad...

[MENDEL, JASON echoing]
I'm not gonna tell you what you want
(Don't even try)
I’m not gonna treat you like an equal
(Don’t waste your breath)
I'm not gonna fight you with a sequel and wreck my fists
Because I’m a trained psychiatrist

You are, I am too
We're a part of one great family

[MARVIN]
You are gonna kill your father
Don't feel guilty, kill your father
Rather than humiliate him
Killing your father
Is the merciful thing to do

[TRINA]
Jason, darling, don't get nervous
I’m right here, and at your service
Look, I'm calm and self-deluded
Smiling, smiling
'Cause I think you'll do what I think you'll do

[MARVIN]
Go ahead and kill your father

[TRINA]
Not with guns, but kill your father

[MARVIN]
Rather than humiliate him

[TRINA & MARVIN]
Killing your father
Is the merciful thing to do

[MENDEL]
I'm not gonna tell you how to act
But please don't act childish
Even though you're a child, act adult
Scream and sulk

[JASON and (ADULTS)]
All of you are witness to my youth
(Yeah, yeah, ye-yeah)
Can't you see I'm not a revolutionary
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Even though I'm young enough to change
I still feel the same
I don't want a bar mitzvah
(Want, want)
I don't want a bar mitzvah
(What do you want?)
I want-
(He wants to be bad)
I want to be bad
(He wants to be bad, bad, bad)

[ADULTS and (Jason)]
He wants to repulse us
(Bad!)
And pay us seconds, slap us in the face

[JASON]
I want to be bad, bad, bad, bad