That moment when you notice the genius behind the lyrics.

It's so hard to truly appreciate this song unless you see it live. Most shows have some kind of effect where you see the letters visually as they're sung throughout the song. A lot of shows have blocks that get pushed out with the letters, one I saw recently had these really glowy letters on cards, it's truly mindblowing.

This scene was mindblowing !! the way they pushed letters in the holes of the gates while singing the alphabet and climbing on the letters boxs was really spectacular

*listens to song on repeat until I get sick of it* *memorizes song after hearing it twice* *never gets tired of it*

I went to see this show live. The songs were okay but this is the one that stuck out to me the most. The song is pretty cool itself but as they were singing two boys were climbing up the gate while letters from the alphabet were being pushed into holes in the gate beneath them and each step they made they stepped on that letter. It was a truly epic sight to witness, the rest of my friends just talked about Mrs Trunchbull and such afterwards so I didn't bother to bring up this musical number

TIM MINCHIN IS A BLOODY GENIUS

I love the hidden alphabet

So you think you're A-ble To survive this mess by B-ing a prince or a princess You will soon C There's no escaping trage-D. And E-ven, If you put in heaps of F-fort, You're just wasting ener-G, 'Cause your life as you know it is H-cient history. I have suffered in this J-il, Been trapped inside this K-ge for ages, This living L. But if I try I can rem-M-ber Back before my life had N-ded, Before my happy days were O-ver, Before I first heard the P-ling of the bell. Like you, I was Q-rious, So innocent I R-sked a thousand questions But unl-S you want to suffer listen up And I will T-ch you, a thing or two. U, listen here, my dear, You'll be be punished so se-V-rely if you step out of line, And if you cry it will be W should stay out of trouble, And remember to be X-tremely careful. Y? Just you wait for Phy-Z!

6 years later, I'm still listening to this song in 2019

This literally describes my school life like

I wish someone told me this stuff when I started school

whoever wrote this is so smart

Favorite part of the musical.

This continues to be the smartest song I've ever heard.

Me: **Casually listening to the Matilda soundtrack while brushing** School song: **Plays** Me: **Violently whacking head with hairbrush**

Can I just skip around the school while blasting this at full volume?

This song is just making fun of how the english language words are not spelled the exact same way their pronounced, love it

We did this show at my school and it was so much fun. It was raining and we were all running around barefoot in the rain singing Bruce, and nowhere else would it be so socially acceptable to burst out singing in the rain. It was so much fun but we got in trouble for being all wet when we had to go on in 20 mins. We all ran to the school bathrooms and used the hand dryers to dry our hair before we changed into our costumes. Revolting children was the best song we did but the entire play was just amazing. A lot of us actually cried after the last show and now because of coronavirus we probably can't put on a school show, which is really upsetting because the play is the highlight of my year.

This kinda reminds me of my middle school. It wasn't ALL bad, but my 8th grade LAL teacher was pretty much a combination of the Trunchbull and Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter.

I thought this song meaning is about bullying but now I can understand it as being the older students of the school warning the newer students new to the school that's so sad

First day of 8th grade. Might just sing this to the new sixth graders

This is basically my school! It's so strict. We're not allowed to wear: Frilly or knee high socks No earrings No ribbons on shoes or headbands None uniform day is banned We have to stand up when a certain member of staff comes into the room Every year group have different ties Every year group are separated on different yards. Not allowed to die our hair any unatural colours or dip dye it Girls can't have the hair cut shorter then the ears Boys can't have patterns on their hair No white socks Dt's can be up to 5:00 and we finish at 2:45 No make up

Definitely my favourite matilda song ^.^

For a while I was like, It would be cool if they did the letter z And then I realised that, while where I am, z is pronounced zeeOther places pronounce it Zed Phys. Ed was the letter z in the hidden alphabet

I sing this to the new kids every year. Just to scare them :D

WOW!! I love the way they wrote this song!! I manged to decode the hidden alphabet! :D

*GUESS WHO'S IN THE MUSICAL AS THE PART OF A BIG KID* _-but im four foot freaking eleven how-_

I love Matilda the Musical. It's one of my favorites. I love this song. It's probably my favorite.

When you actually watch this, they show the alphabet a lot clearer and its really well done!! Definitely a must see musical.

we performed this today at school and the dancing to this song was everything!

3:35 my reaction to toys r us closing.

I have drama class and we're gonna perform this today in the concert.. Super nervouse..and excited too!

Im pretty sure that at 2:09 it is, "You better learn to listen" not lesson, its just a cockney accent (Type of british accent)

News reporter: so hows school? me: school???! News reporter: *yes* me: 1:06

You should do one where the second time through you mark out all the letters in the words, you know, like "H-ient history" and "P-ling of the bell".

It's "you'd better learn to listen kid" not 'you'd better learn a lesson kid' just thought I'd say.

Prologue.... Don't do 2 lines in a row My mummy says I'm a miracle

I love this song, it's so clever :)

I have to sing this infront of 2000 people on stage 😭😫

I love this song! I started learning it for my school concert and I love it!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏🙏🙏🙏 for posting this!!! I needed this so much so I can audition for Matilda in my school! Wish me luck!!!

When I was a child,this was my JAM

The genius of the lyrics is crazy

I did his for my year 6 assembly last year.. omg i was laughing so hard at this song 😂😂

I LOVE THIS SONG :^^

I remember when I sung this in my school production, im not crying you are

Here's the lyrics with the letters put in where they appear: So you think you're A-ble To survive this mess by B-ing a prince or a princess? You will soon C There's no escaping trage-D. And E-ven If you put in heaps of F-ort You're just wasting ener-G 'Cause your life as you know it is H-ient history. I Have suffered in this J-l I've been trapped inside this K-ge for ages This living L, But if I try I can rem-M-ber Back before my life had N-ded Before my happy days were O-ver Before I first heard the P-ling of the bell. Like you I was Q-rious So innocent I R-sked a thousand questions But unl-S you want to suffer listen up And I will T-ch you a thing or two. U, listen here, my dear You'll be punished so se-V-rely If you step out of line And if you cry it will be W should stay out of trouble And remember to be X-tremely careful Y? Y? Y? Y? Did you hear what he said? Just you wait for phy-Z!

Gawd its been a while since I last heard this. I only came back to this because I preformed two songs from this musical with an ensemble. We did miracle and then this one. Brings back gooood memories :3

You got the part that said “living L” it’s “living E’ll” and you got this part wrong to it’s not “jail” it’s “Gaol”

I love the Matilda musical i sing it all the time when I am happy

Myom says I'm a Angel

I love it! The musical's amazing

Yesssss now I can practice young voices at home now!

'Just you wait for Phys.Ed.' Pfft, shouldve said Maths.

They're singing the alphabet during 2:16 - 3:30...that's pretty epic. What happened to Z?

Another Classic I listen to this constantly.

This actually fire 🔥

I did this show at my school

I never get sick of this song

my school is so nice they let us have anything ribbon,earing,we have to have knee high sock

btw "this living L" should be written as "this living 'ell" (as in hell, but dropping the h)

Omg this makes me so wanna go see Matilda

helped a lot thx

I once went to a musical theatre summer camp which would have an acting lesson, a singing lesson and a dance lesson every day for five days, on the first day we had dance first in the morning which was the hardest and the second day we had it last so we started telling a guy who wasn't in on the first day about it and then started singing this, absolute banger

Love this song and the scene!

The start is super creepy but I love Matilda the musical !!!

This helped :,) I have to learn this for a school musical so thank you

The hidden alphabet though

Amazing singing this song for school and absolutely love it

Love it, I am learning it in a school group. Great help!!

we just did auditions for this musical in my school, callbacks are next week and I'm learning all the lyrics to this

Thanks a lot of help😜👍🏻❤️

This really helped me due to me doing this on stage so thanks for this

I’m doing this song in a summer show in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. There’s two parts to the show. Matilda the musical and Queen- we will rock you. I’m so glad I’m doing this.

'What's Phy-z?' 'Physical Education!' Love the accents!

I'm apart of the musical, I think it's great, and thumbs up to all my friends in the musical as well 🙂:)

this song lyrics is the best. i luv it

Amazing song and very powerful words

I love you doing. These lyrical vids. Good job!

Very heal full thanks

Anyone else loveee this song🤩🤩

I love this

Saw this yesterday in Edinburgh, and like the top comment said the sequence with the climbing and the letters of the alphabet will stick for me for months I’m sure.

I Saw this for my birthday present ... AMAZING!!

this song is my favorite song out of all of them! love it

I love this song so much but my favourite matilta song is Revolting children

like seriously how clever can you even be!!! this is amazing!!! i saw the play in london tonight and it was brilliant!! i just couldnt!! its definitely my favourite play! and im american so it was even more of a treat! I LOVED IT!

such good songs in this play, genius!

saw this on broadway. choreography was genius!

If this doesn't describe my elementary school years, I don't know what does. Bad times, man.

This is for this for my school musical we’re practicing xxx

i love this song

I’m in love!!!😻😻😻

Tim Minchin is an amazing song writer

IM IN THE MUSICAL!

I love the video

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDD *applauding*

Love it :)

We're doing this in my drama group and we do the teen part and it's so fun, especially the dance

The choreography is so creative and amazing. If you hear during the second time they sing the chorus, there are background singers emphasizing certain letters, they use letter blocks and stick in light up ones into these gates. It's fantastic.