Turn It Off
Original Broadway Cast of The Book of Mormon
[ELDER MCKINLEY]
I got a feeling
That you could be feeling
A whole lot better than you feel today
You say you got a problem
Well that's no problem
It's super easy not to feel that way

When you start to get confused
Because of thoughts in your head
Don't feel those feelings!
Hold them in instead

Turn it off, like a light switch
Just go click!
It's a cool little Mormon trick!
We do it all the time
When you're feeling certain feelings
That just don't seem right
Treat those pesky feelings
Like a reading light
[ELDER MCKINLEY (ELDER MICHAELS, ELDER NEELEY)]
And turn 'em off
Like a light switch, just go bap!
Really, what's so hard about that?
Turn it off!

[ELDERS]
Turn it off!

[ELDER CHURCH]
When I was young my dad
Would treat my mom real bad
Every time the Utah Jazz would lose
He'd start a-drinking
And I'd start a-thinking
How am I gonna keep my mom from getting abused?

I'd see her all scared and my soul was dying
My dad would say to me: "Now, don't you dare start crying"

Turn it off

[ELDERS]
Like a light switch
Just go flick
It's our nifty little Mormon trick
Turn it off
Turn
It
Off
[ELDER THOMAS]
My sister was a dancer, but she got cancer
The doctor said she still had two months more
I thought she had time, so I got in line
For the (new iPhone) at the (Apple Store)

She lay there dying with my father and motherHer very last words were "Where is my brother?"

[ELDERS]
Turn it off
Yeah!
Bid those sad feelings adieu

[ELDER THOMAS]
The fear I might get cancer too

[ELDER MCKINLEY & ELDERS]
When I was in fifth grade
I had a friend, Steve Blade (Ooh, Steve Blade)
He and I were close
As two friends could be (We could be close)
One thing led to another
And soon I would discover (Wow!)
I was having really strange feelings for Steve
I thought about us, on a deserted island (We're all alone)
We'd swim naked in the sea
And then he'd try and...
WOAH! Turn it off!
Like a light switch
There it's gone
Good for you!
My hetero side just won!
I'm all better now
Boys should be with girls
That's heavenly father's plan
So if you ever feel
You'd rather be with a man
Turn it off!

[ELDER PRICE, spoken]
Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts, just so long as you never act upon them

[ELDER MCKINLEY & ELDERS]
No, 'cause then you're
Just keeping it down
Like a dimmer switch
On low
On low
Thinking nobody needs to know!
Uh oh

[ELDER PRICE]
But that's not true!

[ELDER MCKINLEY]
Being gay is bad
But lying is worse
So just realize you have
A curable curse
And turn it off
Turn it off
Turn it off
Turn it off!

(The ELDERS dance.)

[ELDERS]
Turn it off!

[ELDER MCKINLEY]
Now, how do you feel?

[ELDER PRICE]
The same

[ELDER MCKINLEY]
Then you've only got yourself to blame
You didn't pretend hard enough
Imagine that your brain is made of tiny boxes
And find the box that's gay and CRUSH IT!
Okay?

[ELDER PRICE, spoken]
No, no, I'm not having gay thoughts!

[ELDER CUNNINGHAM, spoken]
Alright! It worked!

[ELDERS]
Yay!
Turn it off, turn it off
Turn it off, turn it off
Turn it off, turn it off
Like a light switch just go click (Click click!)
What a cool little Mormon trick! (Trick trick!)
We do it all the time!

[ELDER MCKINLEY]
When you're feeling certain feelings

[ELDERS]
That just don't seem right
Don't seem right
Treat those pesky feelings
Like a reading light
A reading light
Turn it off
Like a light switch on a cord
Now he isn't gay anymore

[ELDERS]
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it
Turn it

[ELDER MCKINLEY]
Turn it off!
Write the lyrics for a pop song made in 2011, titled "Turn It Off", by artist "Original Broadway Cast of The Book of Mormon".