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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,
and turn ‘em off,
Like a light switch. Just go “bap.”
Really, what’s 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 lose.
He’d start a-drinking,
and I’d start a-thinking,
How’m 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, like a light switch. Just go click!
It’s 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 iPhone 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 adieu.
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 friends 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.
We’d swim naked in the sea, and then he’d try and…

Whoa! Turn it off, like a light switch. There, it’s gone!
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:

Well, I think it’s ok that you’re having gay thoughts,
just so long as you never act on them.]

No, because then you’re just keeping it down,
Like a dimmer switch on low,
Thinking nobody needs to know.
But that’s not true!
Being gay is bad, but lying is worse,
So just realize you have a curable curse,
And turn it off!

(Dance)

Turn it off!
Now how do you feel?

[ELDER PRICE: The same.]

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!
Ok?

[ELDER PRICE:
No, no, -I’m- not having gay thoughts.]

[ELDER CUNNINGHAM:
All right! It worked!]
Yay!

(More dance)

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!
When you’re feeling certain feelings that just don’t seem right,

Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light!
Turn it off! Like a light switch, shut it off!

Now he isn’t gay any—
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it…!
Turn it, turn it, turn it, turn it…!
Turn it…
Turn it off!