"Being One Of The Three Is Bad"

(sung by Ukyou Kuonji of "Ranma 1/2",
 to the tune of "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" by Meatloaf)


Ranma, I could talk all night
But that won't get me nowhere
I tried everything I possibly can
But I just can't make you love me

And even when you're married tonight
It'll never change the way that I feel 
Akane's waiting in the dojo, inside
I wish it was me you married here

I was the "cute one", I was your friend,
I always showed you just how much I cared 
But for all my words and for all that I shout
      You have loved Akane so long, 
            I had no chance from the day that I got here
      And all I can do keep on telling you

      I want you (I want you)
      I need you (I need you)
      But there ain't no way I'll ever get to love you
      Of course I'm sad (of course I'm sad)
      ...Being one of the three is bad
      Of course I'm sad, being one of the three hurts bad

You'll never live with someone like crazy Kodachi
You'll never obey an amazon, like Shampoo would need
I know you're in love with a girl who's built like a mountain of rocks
But being cute and being friends,
      means nothing when it's the wild horse's heart that talks
      
How I tried (how I tried)
To give you everything that I've got, but no matter how I try
I'll never be able to give you something, 
      that something that Akane's got

You're the only one boy that I have ever loved
It started so many years ago 
And though I know I'll never get you out of my heart
You've never loved me back, ooh, I know

Well I remember how you left and took my Dad's yatai
"Bye bye, Ucchan" was all you said
And though I pleaded and I begged you to take me with you that day
Your Dad cheated me and took you away

And I keep on telling you
I keep on telling you
I keep on telling you
      
      I want you (I want you)
      I need you (I need you)
      But there ain't no way I'll ever get to love you
      Of course I'm sad (of course I'm sad)
      ...Being one of the three is bad
      
      I want you (I want you)
      I need you (I need you)
      But there ain't no way I'll ever get to love you
      Of course I'm sad (of course I'm sad)
      ...Being one of the three is bad
      Of course I'm sad, being one of the three hurts bad

...Ranma, I could talk all night
But that won't get me nowhere.