Book of Mormon - Turn It Off [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[ELDER MCKINLEY:]
I got a feeling
That you could be feeling
A whole lot better then you feel today
You say you got a problem
Well thats no problem
Its super easy not to feel that way!

When you start to get confused because of thoughts in your head
Dont feel those feelings!
Hold them in instead

Turn it off, like a light switch
Just go click!
Its a cool little Mormon trick!
We do it all the time
When your feeling certain feels that just dont feel right
Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light
And turn em off
Like a light switch just go bap!
Really whats so hard about that?
Turn it off! (Turn it off!)

When I was young my dad
Would treat my mom real bad
Every time the Utah Jazz would loose
Hed start a drinking
And Id start a thinking
How am I gonna keep my mom from getting abused?

Id see her all scared and my soul was dying
My dad would say to me, Now dont you dare start crying

Turn it off, (Like a light switch just go click!)
(Its our nifty little Mormon trick!)
Turn it off! (Turn. It. Off!)

My Sister was a dancer, but she got cancer
My doctor said she still had two months more
I thought she had time, so I got in line
For the new I-phone at the apple store

She lay there dying with my father and mother
Her very last words were "where is my brother?"

(Turn it off!) Yeah! (Bid those sad feelings a due!)
The fear I might get cancer too

When I was in fifth grade, I had a friend Steve Blade
He and I were close as two friend could be
One thing led to another, and soon I would discover
I was having really strange feelings for Steve

I thought about us, on a deserted Island
Wed swim naked in the sea, and then hed try and

WOAH! Turn if off, like a light switch
There its gone! (Good for you!)
My hetero side just won!
Im all better now
Boys should be with girls thats heavenly fathers plan
So if you ever feel you rather be with a man
Turn it off

[ELDER PRICE:]
Well Elder McKinley, I think its ok that your having gay thoughts
Just so long as you never act on them

[ELDER MCKINLEY:]
No, because then your just keeping it down
Like a dimmer switch on low, (On low!)
Thinking nobody needs to know! (Uh oh!)

[ELDER PRICE:]
But thats 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!)

(Dance)

Turn it off!

Now how do you feel!

[ELDER PRICE:]
The same

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

[ELDER PRICE:]
No, no, -Im- not having gay thoughts

[ELDER CUNNINGHAM:]
Alright! It worked!

(Yay!)

(Turn it off!)

(Turn it off, Turn it off!)

(Turn it off, turn it off like a light switch just go click click!
What a cool little Mormon Trick! Trick trick!
We do it all the time!)

[ELDER MCKINLEY:]
When your feeling certain feelings that just dont seem right!
Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light!
Turn it off! (Like a light switch, shut it off!)
(Now he isnt gay anymore!)

(Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it...!)
(Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it...!)
(Turn it...)

[ELDER MCKINLEY:]
Turn it off!