Song Title

Artist

Writers

Producers

Arrangers

Orchestra Conductor

Concertmaster/Orchestra

Release-
Date

Never

The Body Shop [featuring Betty Comden]

Cy Coleman
Betty Comden
Adolph Green

Cy Coleman
Larry Fallon

Larry Fallon
Cy Coleman

Cy Coleman

David Nadien/
New York

1979

Note the powerful "male" brass and "female" strings during the intro and first verse as they together punctuate the lyrics like an exclamation-point on the sentiment, followed by the uncontrollable emotional outburst at the middle-break, building into a monumental dialog between "male" brass and "female" strings, and then culminating in whirling, screaming violins, viole, and celli that whip the conclusion into a philharmonic frenzy of metaphorical liberation of the mind, body, and soul, all the while elevating the listener onto the higher plane of melodic and philharmonic phantasmagoria.

Introduction
So, you've come to tell me he needs me now.
So, you've come to tell me he wants me now.
This must mean he's down for the count of 10.
That's the time he wants to make up and latch on again.
(Go back to him.)
Oh, no!
(Go back to him.)
No!
(You've got to go back to him.)

Verse 1
Never!
That is the word I use.
Never!
That is the word I choose.
Tell him that you really tried.
Tell him that really I'd rather die.

Verse 2
(Never!)
Never is much too quick.
(Never!)
He makes me much too sick.
Let him save his own hateful hide.
Let him; no, I would rather die.

Refrain 1
(Never!)
I hear that his misery is fantastic.
(Never!)
Without me I hope he'll do something drastic.
(Never!)
It's his turn to suffer alone in sorrow.
(Never!)
Never means forever, not just tomorrow.
Never is the word I seek.
Never is the word I shriek.

Bridge
(Go back; go back to him.)
Never!

Refrain 2
(Never!)
[synical laugh]
(Never!)
[cynical laugh]
(Never!)
I've been told I'm cold.
(Never!)
Never means forever, not just tomorrow.
Never is the word I seek.
Never is the word I shriek.