EMILY BLUNT - TURNING TURTLE

 TURNING TURTLE

EMILY BLUNT

SONGWRITERS: MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: MARY POPPINS RETURNS

LABEL: WALT DISNEY

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 2018

 

           Emily Olivia Leah Blunt(born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards.

        Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica(2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII(2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love(2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

         Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria(2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen(2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau(2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow(2014), and the musical films Into the Woods(2014) and Mary Poppins Returns(2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario(2015), an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train(2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film A Quiet Place(2018), for which she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Turning turtle? What exactly does that mean?

It means my whole world goes flippity flop like a turtle on its back.

And I don't know my up from my down, my east from my west,

My topsy from my bottomsy

 

If you bring something broken on a Thursday

I'll make new, with my glue, pins and thread

But you bring whatever broken on a Friday

I will mend and then spend the day in bed

Children, Saturn, Sun and Mondays are just everything is fun days

But in the second week, I wear a frown

For, I know that after Tuesday comes the Topsy get's bad news day

It's the dreaded second Wednesday

When from 9 to noon, my life turns upside down

 

If fast is slow, low is high, stop is go and that is why

Every second Wednesday is a hurdle

From 8 to 9, all is well

Then I roll over on my shell

And all because the world is turning turtle

 

Day is night, dog is cat, black is white, thin is fat

That is why I'm loosening up my girdle

I cannot help this charming troop

Don't lock me, 'cause I'm in this soup

And why? Because the world is turning turtle

 

Oh, woe is me, I'm as opposite as I can be

I long for Thursdays when the world is drab

When will it cease? Now my life resembles War and Peace

That Tolstoy certainly had the gift of gab, I couldn't get through it

 

Bottom's top, ying is yang, Sturm und Drang

Tuesday nights, my blood begins to curdle

East is west, in is out, and that is why I need to shout

Oh no! The world is turning turtle

 

Oh, if you had come some other morn'

You wouldn't have found me so forlorn

But, since the day that I was born

Second Wednesday is on the fritz

I couldn't mend this to save my soul

If this keeps up, I'll dig a hole

You say life's a cherry bowl

But Wednesday's full of pits

Tell us, can you fix this drum?

 

Well, today it's looking glum

Can you mend this crack and broken string?

Perhaps if you all lend a hand

Our fingers are at your command

A broken song, but still can sing

Let's do the turtle swing

 

Oh, woe is me. Now I'm on my head

How can that be?

Well you say woe, but I say lucky you

Lucky me?

Yes. Here on your head A is far behind in letters, I've said

It's good to get a different point of view

 

You see, when the world turns upside down,

The best thing is turn right along with it

I do see! From down here, things look right side up, hahaha

I wouldn't mind seeing things from that angle

Sounds like fun

Can we?

Very well. Flippity flop

 

Near is far and here is there

Turtles turning everywhere

Things are getting clear

Then knock on wood my dear

 

When you change the view from where you stood

The things you view will change for good

 

I never thought of things that way

She never thought of things that way

Now Wednesdays are my favorite days

Now Wednesdays are her favorite days

Cause that's the day, I'm quite contrary.

I'm now, thanks to cousin Mar

I have changed. To be exact, I love the fact

The world is turning turtle, turtle, turtle.