karaoke
You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it's easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I'm your puppet
I love it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When you're lying next to me
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
I love you (It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
Rent to the landlord baby, that's his business, that's his business, that's his business
Rent to the landlord baby, that's his business, that's his business, that's his business
Papa used to tell me it was the electric, the electric, the electric
Mama used to tell me it was so expensive, It's expensive just to live
I, and the money's always gone
I, papa working so hard just to get paid
We make money, make money, to spend,
People want, people need cause it never ends, now baby
It takes money, takes money my friend
People need, people want cause it never ends
Slip to the bottom of my empty pocket, empty pocket, empty pocket
Slip to the bottom of my empty pocket, empty pocket, empty pocket
Overdrawn again, feeling insufficent, insufficent, insufficent
How many more times must I sing this song
I, and the money's always gone
I, papa working so hard just to get paid
We make money, make money, to spend,
People want, people need cause it never ends, now baby
It takes money, takes money my friend
People need, people want because it never ends
Mama used to tell me it was, be electric, be electric boy, be electric
Rent to the landlord baby, that's his business, that's his business, that's his business
How can I ever thank you my girl
I, when the money's always gone
I, now I'm working so hard just to get paid
We make money, make money, to spend,
People want, people need cause it never ends now baby
It takes money, takes money to spend
People need, people want because it never ends yah
It takes money, everyone knows
Here it comes, there it goes, Here it comes, there it goes oh baby
It takes money, everyone knows
Cost is high pay is low, cost is high pay is low
My mama working so hard just to get me by
You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it's easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I'm your puppet
I love it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When you're lying next to me
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
I love you (It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
How do you document real life
When real life's getting more like fiction each day?
Headlines, bread-lines blow my mind
And now this deadline, eviction or pay rent
How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong
Though they once sounded right and rare?
When the notes are sour
Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?
We're hungry and frozen, some life that we've chosen
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue?
How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet?
And they're turning blue
You light up a mean blaze with posters and screenplays
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
How do you stay on your feet when on every street?
It's trick or treat and tonight it's trick
Welcome back to town I should lie down
Everything's brown and uh-oh, I feel sick
Where is he? Getting dizzy
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
The music ignites the night with passionate fire
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
And feel the heat of the future's glow
How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
'Til you're torn apart, rent
How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray?
What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand
Use your camera to spar, use your guitar
When they act tough, you call they're bluff
We're not gonna pay, we're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay, last year's rent
This year's rent, next year's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
MARK
How Do You Document Real Life
When Real Life's Getting More
Like Fiction Each Day
Headlines - Bread-Lines
Blow My Mind
And Now This Deadline
"Eviction - Or Pay"
Rent
ROGER
How Do You Write A Song
When The Chords Sound Wrong
Though They Once Sounded Right And Rare
When The Notes Are Sour
Where Is The Power You Once Had To Ignite the Air
MARK
And We're Hungry And Frozen
ROGER
Some Life That We've Chosen
TOGETHER
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
MARK
We Light Candles
ROGER
How Do You Start A Fire
When There's Nothing To Burn
And It Feels Like Something's Stuck In
Your Flue
MARK
How Can You Generate Heat
When You Can't Feel Your Feet
BOTH
And They're Turning Blue!
MARK
You Light Up A Mean Blaze
ROGER
With Posters-
MARK
And Screenplays
BOTH
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
JOANNE
(On phone)
Don't Screen, Maureen
It's Me - Joanne
Your Substitute Production Manager
Hey Hey Hey! (Did You Eat)
Don't Change The Subject Maureen
But Darling - You Haven't Eatin All Day
You Won't Throw Up
You Won't Throw Up
The Digital Delay--
-Didn't Blow Up (Exactly)
There May Have Been One Teeny Tiny Spark
You're Not Calling Mark
COLLINS
How Do You Stay On Your Feet
When On Every Street
It's 'Trick Or Treat'
(And Tonight It's 'Trick')
'Welcome Back To Town'
I Should Lie Down
Everything's Brown
And Uh - Oh
I Feel Sick
MARK
Where Is He?
COLLINS
Getting Dizzy
BOTH
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
How We Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
BENNY
(On cellular phone)
Allison Baby - You Sound Sad
I Don't Believe Those Two
After Everything I've Done
Ever Since Our Wedding
I'm Dirt - They'll See
I Can Help Them All Out In The Long Run
Forces Are Gathering
Forces Are Gathering
Can't Turn Away
Forces Are Gathering
COLLINS
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhhh- I Can't Think
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh-
Ughhhhh- I Need A Drink
MARK
The Music Ignites The Night With
Passionate Fire
JOANNE
Maureen - I'm Not A Theatre Person
ROGER
The Narration Crackles And Pops With
Incendiary Wit
JOANNE
Could Never Be A Theatre Person
MARK
Zoom In As They Burn The Past To The
Ground
JOANNE
Hello?
MARK; ROGER
And Feel The Heat Of The Future's
Glow
JOANNE
Hello?
MARK
(On phone)
Hello? Maureen?
-Your Equipment Wont Work?
Okay, All Right, I'll Go!
MARK; HALF OF THE COMPANY
How Do You Leave The Past Behind
When It Keeps Finding Ways To Get To
Your Heart
It Reaches Way Down Deep And Tears
You Inside Out
Til You're Torn Apart
Rent
ROGER; OTHER HALF OF COMPANY
How Can You Connect In An Age
Where Strangers, Landlords, Lovers
Your Own Blood Cells Betray
What Binds The Fabric Together
When The Raging, Shifting Winds Of Change
Keep Ripping Away
BENNY
Draw A Line In The Sand
And Then Make A Stand
ROGER
Use Your Camera To Spar
MARK
Use Your Guitar
When They Act Tough - You Call Their
Bluff
MARK; ROGER
We're Not Gonna Pay
MARK; ROGER W/ HALF THE COMPANY
We're Not Gonna Pay
MARK; ROGER W/ OTHER HALF OF
COMPANY
We're Not Gonna Pay
Last Year's Rent
This Year's Rent
Next Year's Rent
Rent Rent Rent Rent Rent
We're Not Gonna Pay Rent
ROGER; MARK
(again... again... again... ooooh
(again... again... again... again... ...)
You dress me up, Im your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, its easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off broadway
To tell me who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
Im your puppet
I love it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When youre lying next to me
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) ooh, I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency weve spent
(ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) you pay my rent (its easy, its so easy)
(ooooh) I love you (its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
(its easy, its so easy)
[The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement.]
[Then everyone except MARK and ROGER freezes in a group upstage.]
[MARK]
How do you document real life
When real life is getting more
Like fiction each day
Headlines -- bread-lines
Blow my mind
And now this deadline
"Eviction -- or pay"
Rent!
[ROGER]
How do you write a song
When the chords sound wrong
Though they once sounded right and rare
When the notes are sour
Where is the power
You once had to ignite the air
[MARK]
And we're hungry and frozen
[ROGER]
Some life that we've chosen
[TOGETHER]
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
[MARK]
We light candles
[ROGER]
How do you start a fire
When there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue
[MARK]
How can you generate heat
When you can't feel your feet
[BOTH]
And they're turning blue!
[MARK]
You light up a mean blaze
[ROGER grabs one of his own posters.]
[ROGER]
With posters --
[MARK grabs old manuscripts.]
[MARK]
And screenplays
[ROGER AND MARK]
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
[Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,]
[who's at the pay phone.]
[JOANNE]
[On phone]
Don't screen, Maureen
It's me -- Joanne
Your substitute production manager
Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)
Don't change the subject Maureen
But darling -- you haven't eaten all day
You won't throw up
You won't throw up
The digital delay ---
Didn't blow up (exactly)
There may have been one teeny tiny spark
You're not calling Mark
[COLLINS]
How do you stay on your feet
When on every street
It's 'trick or treat'
(And tonight it's 'trick')
'Welcome back to town'
Oh, I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh -- oh
I feel sick
[MARK]
[At the window]
Where is he?
[COLLINS]
Getting dizzy
[He collapses.]
[MARK AND ROGER]
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent
[MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover.]
BENNY
[On cellular phone]
Alison baby -- you sound sad
I don't believe those two after everything I've done
Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see
I can help them all out in the long run
[Three locales: JOANNE at the pay phone,]
[MARK and ROGER in their loft, and COLLINS on the ground.]
[The following is sung simultaneously.]
[BENNY]
Forces are gathering
Forces are gathering
Can't turn away
Forces are gathering
[COLLINS]
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I can't think
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I need a drink
[MARK (reading from a script page)]
"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"
[JOANNE]
Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person
[ROGER]
"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"
[JOANNE]
Could never be a theatre person
[MARK]
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
[JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)]
Hello?
[MARK AND ROGER]
And feel the heat of the future's glow
[JOANNE]
Hello?
[The phone rings in the loft. MARK picks it up.]
[MARK]
[On phone]
Hello? Maureen?
--Your equipment won't work?
Okay, all right, I'll go!
[MARK AND HALF OF COMPANY]
How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
Till you're torn apart
Rent!
[ROGER AND OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]
How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray
[ALL]
What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away
[BENNY]
Draw a line in the sand
And then make a stand
[ROGER]
Use your camera to spar
[MARK]
Use your guitar
[ALL]
When they act tough - you call their bluff
[MARK AND ROGER]
We're not gonna pay
[MARK AND ROGER WITH HALF OF COMPANY]
We're not gonna pay
[MARK AND ROGER WITH OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]
We're not gonna pay
[ALL]
Last year's rent
This year's rent
Next year's rent
Rent rent rent rent rent
We're not gonna pay rent
[ROGER AND MARK]
'Cause everything is rent
Who died?
Our Akita
Evita
You make fun, yet I'm the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia's
A fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is dead
Dearly beloved
We gather here to say our goodbyes
(Dies irae, dies illa)
Here she lies
(Kyrie eleison)
(Yitgadal v'yitkadash)
No one knew her worth
The late great daughter of Mother Earth
On these nights when we celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass, you bet your ass to
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing
The need to express, to communicate
To going against the grain, going insane, going mad
To loving tension, no pension, to more than one dimension
To starving for attention hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course hating dear old mom and dad
To riding your bike midday past the three piece suits
To fruits, to no absolutes
To Absolut, to choice, to the Village Voice
To any passing fad
To being an ?us' for once
Instead of a ?them'
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
Hey mister, she's my sister
So that's five miso soup
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner
Two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls?
It tastes the same
If you close your eyes
An' thirteen orders of fries
Is that in here?
Wine and beer!
To hand crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos to curry vindaloo
To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou
Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion
Creation, vacation, mucho masturbation
Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new
To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo
Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage
Lenny Bruce, Langston Hughes, to the stage
To Uta, to Buddha, Pablo Neruda, too
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off auntie Em
La vie boheme
Sisters?
We're close
Brothers!
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa, Carmina Burana
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC
To no shame never playing the fame game
To marijuana
To sodomy, it's between god and me
To S&
Waiter, waiter, waiter
La vie boheme
Waiter
In honor of the death of Bohemia
An impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner
Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular one-night engagement
At The Eleventh Street Lot
Will perform Native American tribal chants, backwards
Through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello
Which she ain't never studied
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
About his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days
And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap
Will perform her famous lawn chair handcuff dance
To the sounds of iced tea being stirred
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song
That doesn't remind us of ?Musetta's Waltz?
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub
And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist
Including the tale of his successful reprogramming
Of the M.I.T. virtual reality equipment
To self-destruct as it broadcast the words
?Actual reality, act up, fight AIDS?
Excuse me, did I do something wrong?
I get invited, then ignored all night long
I've been trying, I'm not lying
No one's perfect, I've got baggage
Life's too short, babe time is flying
I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine
I should tell you
I've got baggage too
I should tell you
Baggage, wine and beer
AZT break
You?
Me, you?
Mimi
How did we get here?
How the hell, Pan left, close on the steeple of the church
How did I get here?
How the hell, Christmas, Christmas Eve, last year
How could a night so frozen
Be so scalding hot?
How can a morning this mild
Be so raw?
Why are entire years strewn
On the cutting room floor of memories?
When single frames from one magic night
Forever flicker in close-up on the 3-D Imax of my mind
That's poetic, that's pathetic
Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door
And Collins choose that phone booth
Back where Angel set up his drums?
Why did Maureen's equipment break down?
Why am I the witness?
And when I capture it on film
Hot, hot, hot, sweat, sweet
Wet, wet, wet, red heat
Hot, hot, hot, sweat, sweet
Wet, wet, wet, red heat
Please, don't stop, please
Please, don't stop, stop
Stop, stop, stop, don't
Please, please, please, please
Hot, hot, hot, sweat, sweet
Wet, wet, wet, red heat
Sticky, licky, trickle, tickle
Steamy, creamy, stroking, soaking
Hot, hot, hot, sweat, sweet
Wet, wet, wet, red heat
Touch, taste, deep, dark, kiss
Beg, slap, fear, thick
Red, red, red, red
Red, red, please
Harder, faster, wetter
Bastard
You whore, you cannibal
More, you animal
Fluid, no fluid no contact yes
No contact
Fire fire burn, burn yes
No latex rubber, rubber
Fire, latex rubber, latex bummer
Lover bummer
Take me, take me
Today for you
Tomorrow for me
Today me
Tomorrow you
Tomorrow you
Love you, love you
I love you, I love you
Take me, take me
I love you
Wait, slipped
Shit, ow
Where's it go?
Safe, damn
I think I missed
Don't get pissed
It was bad for me
Was it bad for you?
It's over, it's over
Live in my house, I'll be your shelter
Just pay me back
With one thousand kisses
Be my lover and I'll cover you, yeah
Open your door, I'll be your tenant
Don't got much baggage, to lay at your feet
But sweet kisses, I've got to spare
I'll be there and I'll cover you
I think they meant it
When they said you can't buy love
Now I know you can rent it
A new lease you are my love
On life, all my life
I've longed to discover
Something as true as this is
So with a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
(If you're cold and you're lonely)
With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
(You've got one nickel only)
With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
(When you're worn out and tired)
With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you
(When your heart has expired)
Oh lover, I'll cover you, yeah
Oh lover, I'll cover you
(525600 minutes)
(525000 seasons of love)
Your eyes
As we said our goodbyes
Can't get them out of my mind
And I find I can't hide
(From )
Your eyes
The ones that took me by surprise
The night you came into my life
Where there's moonlight
I see your eyes
How'd I let you slip away
When I'm longing so to hold you
Now I'd die for one more day
'Cause there's something I should have told you
Yes, there's something I should have told you
When I looked into your eyes
Why does distance make us wise?
You were the song all along
And before the song dies
I should tell you, I should tell you
I have always loved you
You can see it in my eyes
How do you document real life
When real life's getting more like fiction each day?
Headlines, bread-lines blow my mind
And now this deadline, eviction or pay rent
How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong
Though they once sounded right and rare?
When the notes are sour
Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?
We're hungry and frozen, some life that we've chosen
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue?
How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet?
And they're turning blue
You light up a mean blaze with posters and screenplays
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
How do you stay on your feet when on every street?
It's trick or treat and tonight it's trick
Welcome back to town I should lie down
Everything's brown and uh-oh, I feel sick
Where is he? Getting dizzy
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay? Last year's rent?
The music ignites the night with passionate fire
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground
And feel the heat of the future's glow
How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
'Til you're torn apart, rent
How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray?
What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand
Use your camera to spar, use your guitar
When they act tough, you call they're bluff
We're not gonna pay, we're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay, last year's rent
This year's rent, next year's rent
Rent, rent, rent, rent, rent
We're not gonna pay rent
The samples won't delay but the cable
There's another way, say something, anything
Test, one, two, three, anything but that
This is weird, it's weird
Very weird, fuckin' weird
I'm so mad that I don't know what to do
Fighting with microphones
Freezing down to my bones
And to top it all off I'm with you
Feel like going insane?
Got a fire in your brain?
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
As a matter of fact, honey, I know this act
It's called the 'Tango Maureen'
The 'Tango Maureen'
It's a dark, dizzy merry-go-round
As she keeps you dangling
You're wrong, you're heart she is mangling
It's different with me
And you toss and you turn
'Cause her cold eyes can burn
Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound
I think I know what you mean
The 'Tango Maureen'
Has she ever pouted her lips
And called you 'Pookie'?
Never, have you ever doubted a kiss or two?
This is spooky
Did you swoon when she walked through the door?
Every time, so be cautious
Did she moon over other boys?
More than moon, I'm getting nauseous
Where'd you learn to tango?
With the French Ambassador's daughter
In her dorm room at Miss Porter's and you?
With Nanetter Himmelfarb
The Rabbi's daughter at the
Scarsdale Jewish Community Center
It's hard to do this backwards
You should try it in heels
She cheated, she cheated
Maureen cheated, fuckin' cheated
I'm defeated, I should give up right now
Gotta look on the bright side
With all of your might
I'd fall for her still anyhow
When you're dancing her dance
You don't stand a chance
Her grip of romance makes you fall
So you think, might as well
Dance a tango to hell
At least I'll have tangoed at all
The 'Tango Maureen'
Gotta dance 'til your diva is through
You pretend to believe her 'cause in the end
You can't leave her
But the end it will come
Still you have to play dumb
'Til you're glum and you bum
And turn blue
Why do we love when she's mean?
And she can be so obscene
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets
In midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife
In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love
Seasons of love
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
In truths that she learned
Or in times that he cried
In bridges he burned
Or the way that she died
It's time now, to sing out
Though the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love
(Oh, you got to, you got to remember the love)
Remember the love
(You know that life is a gift from up above)
Remember the love
(Share love, give love, spread love)
Measure in love
(Measure, measure your life in love)
Seasons of love
Seasons of love
Last night I had a dream
I found myself in a desert
Called Cyberland
It was hot
My canteen had sprung a leak
And I was thirsty
Out of the abyss
Walked a cow, Elsie
I asked if she had
Anything to drink
She said, "I'm forbidden
To produce milk
In Cyberland, we only drink
Diet Coke"
She said, "Only thing to do
Is jump over the moon"
"They've closed everything
Real down"
"Like barns and troughs
And performance spaces
And replaced it all with lies
And rules and virtual life
But there is a way out"
Leap of fate, leap of fate
Leap of fate, leap of fate
"Only thing to do
Is jump over the moon
I gotta get out of here
It's like I'm being tied to the hood"
"Of a yellow rental truck
Being packed in
With fertilizer and fuel oil"
"Pushed over a cliff by
A suicidal Mickey Mouse
I've got to, got to, got to find a way"
"To jump over the moon
Only thing to do
Is jump over the moon"
Then a little bulldog entered
His name we have learned
Was Benny
And although he once had principles
He abandoned them
To live as a lap dog
To a wealthy daughter
Of the Revolution
"That's bull," he said
"Ever since the cat
Took up the fiddle
That cow's been jumpy"
"The dish and spoon
Were evicted from the table and eloped
She's had trouble with that milk
And the moon ever since
Maybe it's a female thing"
"'Cause who'd want to leave
Cyberland anyway?
Walls ain't so bad
The dish and the spoon for instance"
"They were down on their luck
Knocked on my doghouse door"
I said, "Not in my backyard, utensils
Go back to China"
"The only way out is up"
Elsie whispered to me
"A leap of faith"
"Still thirsty?"
Parched, "Have some milk"
I lowered myself beneath her
And held my mouth
To her swollen udder
And sucked the sweetest milk
I'd ever tasted
"Climb on board", she said
And as a harvest moon
Rose over Cyberland
We reared back
We sprang into a gallop
Leaping out of orbit
I awoke singing
Leap of fate, leap of fate
Leap of fate, leap of fate
Only thing to do
Only thing to do is jump
Only thing to do
Is jump over the moon
Only thing to do
Is jump over the moon
Over the moon, over the
Moo, moo, moo
Moo with me
Come on sir, moo with me
Moo, moo, moo, moo
What's the time?
Well it's gotta be close to midnight
My body's talking to me
It says, ?Time for danger?
It says, ?I wanna commit a crime
Wanna be the ?cause of a fight
I wanna put on a tight skirt
And flirt with a stranger?
I've had a knack from way back
At breaking the rules once I learn the games
Get up! Life's too quick, I know someplace sick
Where this chick'll dance in the flames
We don't need any money
I always get in for free
You can get in too
If you get in with me
Let's go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna play? Let's run away
We won't be back before it's New Year's Day
Take me out tonight, meow
When I get a wink from the doorman
Do you know how lucky you'll be?
That you're on line with the feline
Of Avenue B
Let's go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You wanna prowl, be my night owl?
Well take my hand we're gonna howl
Out tonight
In the evening I've got to roam
Can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome
Feels too damn much like home
When the Spanish babies cry
So let's find a bar
So dark we forget who we are
Where all the scars
From the nevers and maybes die
Let's go out tonight
I have to go out tonight
You're sweet, wanna hit the street?
Wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat?
Just take me out tonight
Please take me out tonight
Don't forsake me, out tonight
I'll let you make me out tonight
What'd you forget?
Got a light?
I know you, you're
You're shivering
It's nothing
They turned off my heat
And I'm just a little
Weak on my feet
Would you light my candle?
What are you staring at?
Nothing
Your hair in the moonlight
You look familiar
Can you make it?
Just haven't eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning
Anyway, what?
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of
I always remind people of
Who is she?
She died
Her name was April
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?
Well
Yeah? Ow!
Oh, the wax, it's
Dripping! I like it, between my
Fingers, I figured
Oh, well, goodnight
It blew out again?
No, I think that I dropped my stash
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your candle's out
I'm illin'
I had it when I walked in the door
It was pure
Is it on the floor?
The floor?
They say that I have the best ass
Below 14th Street
Is it true?
What?
You're staring again
Oh no, I mean you do have a nice
I mean, you look familiar
Like your dead girlfriend
Only when you smile
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
That's where I work, I dance
Yes!
They used to tie you up
It's a living
I didn't recognize you
Without the handcuffs
We could light the candle
Oh won't you light the candle?
Why don't you forget that stuff?
You look like you're sixteen
I'm nineteen, but I'm old for my age
I'm just born to be bad
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver like that
I have no heat, I told you
I used to sweat
I got a cold
Uh huh, I used to be a junkie
But now and then I like to
Uh huh
Feel good
Oh here it
What's that?
It's a candy bar wrapper
We could light the candle
Oh what'd you do with my candle?
That was my last match
Our eyes'll adjust
Thank God for the moon
Maybe it's not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street
Bah humbug, bah humbug
Cold hands
Yours too
Big, like my father's
Do you wanna dance?
With you?
No, with my father
I'm Roger
They call me
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
How time flies
When compassion dies
No stocking, no candy canes
No gingerbread, no safety net
No loose change, no change, no
Santa Claus is coming
'Cause Santa Claus ain't coming
No room at the Holiday Inn again
Well, maybe next year or when
December twenty-fourth, ten p.m.
Eastern standard time
I can't believe a year went by so fast
Time to see, what we have time to see
Turn the projector on first shot roger
With the fender guitar he just got out of hock
When he sold the car
That took him away and back
I found my song
He found his song
If he could just find Mimi
I tried you know I tried
Fade in on mark
Who's still in the dark
But he's got great footage
Which he's cut together
To screen tonight
In honor of Benny's wife
Muffy, Alison
Pulling Benny out of the east village location
Then again, maybe we won't screen it tonight
I wonder how Alison found out about Mimi?
Maybe a bird told her or an angel
I had a little hunch you could use, a little 'flow
Tutoring again? Negative
Back at you? No, no you, no
I rewired the ATM at the food emporium
To provide an honorarium to anyone with the code
The code, well
A N G E L
Yet robin hooding isn't the solution
The powers that be must be undermined
Where they dwell in a small exclusive
Gourmet institution
Where we overcharge the wealthy, clientèle
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
With a private corner banquette in the back
We'll make it yet, we'll somehow get to Santa Fe
But you'd miss New York before you could unpack
Mark, Roger, anyone? Help
Maureen?
It's Mimi, I can't get her up the stairs
No, she was huddled in the park in the dark
And she was freezing and begged to come here
Over here, oh, god
Got a light, I know you, you're shivering
She's been living on the street
We need some heat
I'm shivering
We can buy some wood and something to eat
I'm afraid she needs more than heat
I heard that
Collins will call for a doctor, honey
Don't waste your money on mimi, me, me
Hello-911? I'm on hold
Cold, cold, would you light my candle
Yes, we'll, oh God, find a candle
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
Benny wasn't any
Shh, I know
I should tell you why I left
It wasn't, 'cause I didn't
I know, I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you, I love you
Who do you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar
Hold on there's something you
Should here
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
How time flies
When compassion dies
No stocking, no candy canes
No gingerbread, no safety net
No loose change, no change, no
Santa Claus is coming
'Cause Santa Claus ain't coming
No room at the Holiday Inn again
Well, maybe next year or when
December twenty-fourth, ten p.m.
Eastern standard time
I can't believe a year went by so fast
Time to see, what we have time to see
Turn the projector on first shot roger
With the fender guitar he just got out of hock
When he sold the car
That took him away and back
I found my song
He found his song
If he could just find Mimi
I tried you know I tried
Fade in on mark
Who's still in the dark
But he's got great footage
Which he's cut together
To screen tonight
In honor of Benny's wife
Muffy, Alison
Pulling Benny out of the east village location
Then again, maybe we won't screen it tonight
I wonder how Alison found out about Mimi?
Maybe a bird told her or an angel
I had a little hunch you could use, a little 'flow
Tutoring again? Negative
Back at you? No, no you, no
I rewired the ATM at the food emporium
To provide an honorarium to anyone with the code
The code, well
A N G E L
Yet robin hooding isn't the solution
The powers that be must be undermined
Where they dwell in a small exclusive
Gourmet institution
Where we overcharge the wealthy, clientèle
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
With a private corner banquette in the back
We'll make it yet, we'll somehow get to Santa Fe
But you'd miss New York before you could unpack
Mark, Roger, anyone? Help
Maureen?
It's Mimi, I can't get her up the stairs
No, she was huddled in the park in the dark
And she was freezing and begged to come here
Over here, oh, god
Got a light, I know you, you're shivering
She's been living on the street
We need some heat
I'm shivering
We can buy some wood and something to eat
I'm afraid she needs more than heat
I heard that
Collins will call for a doctor, honey
Don't waste your money on mimi, me, me
Hello-911? I'm on hold
Cold, cold, would you light my candle
Yes, we'll, oh God, find a candle
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you
Benny wasn't any
Shh, I know
I should tell you why I left
It wasn't, 'cause I didn't
I know, I should tell you
I should tell you
I should tell you, I love you
Who do you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar
Hold on there's something you
Should here
Who do you think you are?
Barging in on me and my guitar
Little girl, hey, the door is that way
You better go you know the fire's out anyway
Take your powder, take your candle
Your sweet whisper, I just can't handle
Well take your hair in the moonlight
Your brown eyes, goodbye, goodnight
I should tell you, I should tell you
I should tell you, I should, no!
Another time, another place
Our temperature would climb, there'd be a long embrace
We'd do another dance, it'd be another play
Looking for romance? Come back another day
Another day
The heart may freeze
Or it can burn
The pain will ease
If I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment
As my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today
Excuse me if I'm off track
But if you're so wise
Then tell me, why do you need smack?
Take your needle, take your fancy prayer
And don't forget, get the moonlight out of your hair
Long ago, you might've lit up my heart
But the fire's dead, ain't never ever gonna start
Another time, another place
The words would only rhyme, we'd be in outer space
It'd be another song, we'd sing another way
You wanna prove me wrong? Come back another day
Another day
There's only yes
Only tonight
We must let go
To know what's right
No other course
No other way
No day but today
I can't control
Control your temper
My destiny
She doesn't see
I trust my soul
Who says that there's a soul?
(My only goal is just to be)
Just let me be
There's only now, there's only here
(Who do you think you are)
(Barging in on me and my guitar?)
Give in to love or live in fear
No other path
(Little girl, hey)
No other way
(The door is that way)
No day but today
(The fire's out anyway)
No day but today
(Take your powder, take your candle)
No day but today
(Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silhouette)
No day but today
(Another time, another place, another rhyme, a warm embrace)
No day but today
(Another dance, another way, another chance, another day)
A HOMELESS MAN
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Christmas bells are ringing
Somewhere else!
Not here
ANGEL
You okay honey?
COLLINS
I'm afraid so
ANGEL
They get any money?
COLLINS
No
Had none to get
But they purloined my coat
Well you missed a sleeve! - Thanks
ANGEL
Hell, it's Christmas Eve
I'm Angel
COLLINS
Angel..? Indeed
An angel of the first degree
Friends call me Collins - Tom Collins
Nice tree..
ANGEL
Let's get a band-aid for your knee
I'll change, there's a "Life Support" meeting at nine-thirty
Yes this body provides a comfortable home
For the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
COLLINS
As does mine
ANGEL
We'll get along fine
Get you a coat, have a bite
Make a night I'm flush
COLLINS
My friends are waiting
ANGEL
You're cute when you blush
The more the merri ho ho ho
And I do not take no
ROGER
I Should Tell You I'm Disaster
I Forget How To Begin It
MIMI
Let's Just Make This Part Go Faster
I Have Yet -- To Be In It
I Should Tell You
ROGER
I Should Tell You
MIMI
I Should Tell You
ROGER
I Should Tell You
MIMI
I Should Tell I Blew The Candle Out
Just To Get Back In
ROGER
I'd Forgotten How to Smile
Until Your Candle Burned My Skin
MIMI
I Should Tell You
ROGER
I Should Tell You
MIMI
I Should Tell You
BOTH
I Should Tell
Well, Here We Go
Now We--
MIMI
Oh No
ROGER
I Know--This Something Is
Here Goes--
MIMI
Here Goes
ROGER
Guess So
It's Starting To
-Who Knows-
MIMI
Who Knows
BOTH
Who Knows Where
Who Goes There
Who Knows
Here Goes
Trusting Desire - Starting To Learn
Walking Through Fire Without A Burn
Clinging - A Shoulder, A Leap Begins
Stinging And Older, Asleep On Pins
So Here We Go
Now We--
ROGER
Oh No
MIMI
I Know
ROGER
Oh No
BOTH
Who Knows Where - Who Goes There
Here Goes - Here Goes
Here Goes - Here Goes
December 24th, 9 pm
Eastern Standard Time
Here on in, I shoot without a script
See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit
First shot, Roger
Tuning the Fender guitar
He hasn't played in a year
This won't tune
So we hear
He's just coming back
From half a year of withdrawal
Are you talking to me?
Not at all
Are you ready?
Hold that focus, steady
Tell the folks at home what you're doing Roger
I'm writing one great song
The phone rings
Saved!
We screen
One song glory, one song before I go
Glory, one song to leave behind
Find one song, one last refrain
Glory, from the pretty boy front man
Who wasted opportunity
One song, he had the world at his feet
Glory, in the eyes of a young girl
A young girl, find glory
Beyond the cheap colored lights
One song, before the sun sets
Glory, on another empty life
Time flies, time dies
Glory, one blaze of glory
One blaze of glory, glory
Find glory in a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire, an eternal flame
Find, one song, a song about love
Glory, from the soul of a young man
A young man, find the one song
Before the virus takes hold
Glory, like a sunset
One song to redeem this empty life
Time flies and then
No need to endure anymore
Steve, Gordon, Ali
Pam, Sue, hi, I'm Angel
Tom, Collins, I'm Paul
Let's begin
There's only us
There's only this
"Sorry, excuse me, oops"
"And you are?"
"Oh, I'm not, I'm just here to, I don't have"
I'm here with Mark, Mark, I'm Mark"
"Well, this is quite an operation"
"Sit down, Mark
We'll continue the affirmation"
Forget, regret or life is yours to miss
"Excuse me, Paul
I'm having a problem with this, this credo
My T-cells are low
I regret that news, okay?"
"Alright"
"But Gordon, how do you feel today?"
"What do you mean?"
"How do you feel today?"
"Okay"
"Is that all"
"Best I've felt all year"
"Then why choose fear?
"I'm a New Yorker"
"Fear's my life"
"Look, I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I'm used to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don't know"
Because reason says
I should've died three years ago
No other road
No other way
