Where Has It Gone?

[MENDEL]
I've lost my joie de vivre
Honey, my joie, my joie
I've lost my joie, where could it be?
It was my most sacred commodity
I've searched the Bowery and Central Park lawn
Where has it gone?

[TRINA]
One last appeal, where went this thing?
He has such zeal, angels would sing to him;
No one with wings comes near here these days
Call it malaise

[MENDEL]
Where is my irrepressiblе personality?
I remembеr I used to be fun
Used to be won

[MENDEL & TRINA]
Hell of a son of a gun

[MENDEL cont., (TRINA overlapping)]
I've lost my joie
(He lost his joie)
It went out camping
I misplaced his joie
(He misplaced his joie)
Now I'm just vamping

[BOTH]
'Cause life without joie is like dying
Where has it gone?

[MENDEL]
First, we'll need a drink and then we'll need another
Then we'll have a supper and buffet
I've a premonition, well soon be in worse condition
Eating and talking, with nothing to say

[TRINA]
I'm on [?]
Who out there knows?
I want my guy to get dressed in his funny clothes
I want the husband who blew up the ground
He's not around

[MENDEL, TRINA overlapping]
Where is my irrepressible personality?
I remember I used to be fun
Used to be won
Hell of a son of a gun
(Son of a gun)
Hell of a son of a gun

I'm not okay
(He's not okay)
I'm just a goon
(He's just okay)
This is a phase they say that I'll grow out of soon
I've lost my joie
(He's lost his joie)
Am I a nuisance?
The joie, I adore
(The joie, he adores)
And my fondest illusions

Oh, a life without joie

[BOTH]
Is like dying

[MENDEL, TRINA echoing]
Where has it gone?
(Has it gone?)
Where has it gone?
(Has it gone?)
Has it-

I've lost my joie

[BOTH]
And my illusions
The joie, that I love
And my fondest delusions
A life without joie is like dying

[TRINA]
Where has it gone?

[MENDEL]
Where has it-

[BOTH]
Where has it gone?