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)
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, oh, you pay my rent
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 show who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
You pay my rent, you pay my rent
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
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
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
It's easy, it's so easy
It's easy, it's so easy
It's easy, easy, easy, 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
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
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
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)
BENNY
Hey You Bum - Yeah, You, Move Over
Get Your Ass Off That Range Rover
MARK
That attitude toward the homeless is just what
Maureen is protesting tonight.
Close up: Benjamin Coffin the third. Our ex-
Roommate, who married Alison Grey, of the Westport
Greys - then bought the building, in hopes of starting
A cyber-studio
BENNY
Maureen Is Protesting
Losing Her Performance Space
Not My Attitude
Come on down, I wanna talk to you
ROGER
What Happened To Benny
What Happened To His Heart
And The Ideals He Once Pursued
BENNY
And The Owner Of That Lot Next Door
Has A Right To Do With It As He Pleases
ROGER
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
BENNY
The Rent
MARK
You're Wasting Your Time
ROGER
We're Broke
MARK
And You Broke Your Word - This Is Absurd
BENNY
There Is One Way You Won't Have To Pay
ROGER
I Knew It!
BENNY
Next Door, The Home Of Cyberarts, You See
And Now That The Block Is Re-Zoned
Our Dream Can Become A Reality
You'll See Boys
You'll See Boys
A State Of The Art, Digital, Virtual
Interactive Studio
I'll Forego Your Rent And On Paper
Guarantee
That You Can Stay Here For Free
If You Do Me One Small Favor
MARK
What?
BENNY
Convince Maureen To Cancel Her
Protest
MARK
Why Not Just Get And Injunction
Or Call The Cops
BENNY
Yea I Did, And They're On Standby
But My Investors Would Rather
I Handle This Quietly
ROGER
You Can't Quietly Wipe Out An
Entire Tent City
Then Watch 'It's A Wonderful Life'
On TV!
BENNY
You Want To Produce Films And Write
Songs?
You Need Somewhere To Do It!
It's What We Used To Dream About
Think Twice Before You Pooh-Pooh It
You'll See Boys
You'll See Boys
You'll See - The Beauty Of A Studio
That Lets Us Do Our Work And Get Paid
With Condos On The Top
Whose Rent Keeps Open Our Shop
Just Stop The Protest
And You'll Have It Made
You'll See - Or You'll Pack
ANGEL
That boy could use some prozac.
ROGER
Or heavy drugs.
MARK
Or group hugs.
COLLINS
Which reminds me.
We have a detour to make tonight.
Anyone who wants to can come along.
ANGEL
Life support's for people coping with life.
You don't have to stay too long.
MARK
First I've got a protest to save.
ANGEL
Roger?
ROGER
I'm not too much company, you'll find. (Leaves)
MARK
Behave!
ANGEL
He'll catch up later.
He's just got other things on his mind.
You'll see boys.
MARK and ROGER
We'll see boys.
POLICE
Let it be boys.
COLLINS
I like boys.
ANGEL
Boys like me!
FIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE:
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
On TV - At SAKS
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
ALL FIVE HOMELESS:
Can't You Spare A Dime Or Two
Here But For The Grace Of God Go You
You'll Be Merry
I'll Be Merry
Tho Merry Ain't In My Vocabulary
No Sleighbells
No Santa Claus
No Yule Log
No Tinsel
No Holly
No Hearth
SOLOIST:
'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'
ALL FIVE:
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
No Room At The Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDORS:
Hats, Bats, Shoes, Booze
Mountain Bikes, Potpourri
Leather Bags, Girlie Mags
Forty Fives, AZT
VENDOR #1:
No One's Buying
Feel Like Crying
ALL:
No Room AT THe Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDOR #2:
How About A Fur-
In Perfect Shape
Owned By An MBA From Uptown
I Got A Tweed
Broken In By A Greedy
Broker Who Went Broke
And Then Broke Down
COLLINS:
You Don't Have To Do This
ANGEL:
Hush Your Mouth, It's Christmas
COLLINS:
I Do Not Deserve You, Angel
COLLINS:
Give - Give
All You Do
Is Give
Give Me Some
Way To Show
How You've Touched
Me So
ANGEL:
Wait - What's On
The Floor?
Let's See Some
More
No - No - No...
ANGEL:
Kiss Me - It's Beginning To Snow
MARK:
... She Said, 'Would You Light My Candle'
And She Put On A Pout
And She Wanted You
To Take Her Out Tonight?
ROGER:
Right
MARK:
She Got You Out!
ROGER:
She Was More Than Okay
But I Pushed Her Away
It Was Bad - I Got Mad
And I Had To Get Her Out Of My Sight
MARK:
Wait, Wait Wait - You Said She Was
Sweet
ROGER:
Let's Go Eat I'll Just Get Fat
It's The One Vice Left-When You're
Dead Meat
There - That's Her
MARK:
Maureen?
ROGER:
Mimi!
MARK:
ROGER:
I Should Go
BOTH:
Hey - It's Beginning To Snow
COPS:
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
MIMI & JUNKIES:
Follow The Man - Follow The Man
With His Pockets Ful Of The Jam
Follow The Man - Follow The Man
Help Me Out, Daddy
If You Can
Got Any D Man?
THE MAN:
I'm Cool
MIMI & JUNKIES:
Got Any C Man
THE MAN:
I'm Cool
MIMI & JUNKIES:
Got Any X
Any Smack
Any Horse
Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Any Blow?
ROGER:
MIMI:
ROGER:
I Just Want To Say
I'm Sorry For The Way --
MIMI:
Forget It
ROGER:
I Blew Up
Can I Make It Up To You?
MIMI:
How?
ROGER:
Dinner Party?
MIMI:
That'll Do
THE MAN:
Hey Lover Boy - Cutie Pie
You Steal My Client - You Die
ROGER:
You Didn't Miss Me - You Won't Miss Her
You'll Never Lack For Customers
JUNKIES:
I'm Willin'
I'm Illin'
I Gotta Get My Sickness Off
Gotta Run, Gotta Ride
Gotta Gun, Gotta Hide -- Gotta Go
THE MAN:
And It's Beginning To Snow
BENNY:
Wish Me Luck Alison -
The Protest Is On
COAT VENDOR:
L. L. Bean,
Geoffrey Beene
Burburry Zip Out
Lining JUNKIES:
Got Any C Man?
Got Any D Man?
Got Any B Man
Got Any Crack
Got Any X
SQUEEGIEMAN:
Honest Living -
ROGER
Mark, This Is Mimi -
MARK/MIMI:
ROGER:
She's Be Dining - (With Us)
COAT VENDOR:
Here's A New Arrival
THE MAN:
That Is An Ounce
VENDORS:
Hats, Dats, Bats
COLLINS:
That's My Coat!
COAT VENDOR:
We Give Discounts
MARK:
I Think We've Met
ANGEL:
Let's Get A Better One
COLLINS:
It's A Sham
MIMI:
That's What He Said
THE MAN:
I Said It's A Gram!
COLLINS:
But She's A Thief!
ANGEL:
But She Brought Us Together
BENNY:
Which Investor Is Coming?
COLLINS:
I'll Take The Leather
BENNY:
Your Father? - Damn!
HOMELESS & VENDORS:
Christmas Bells Are Swinging
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
In My Dreams - Next Year
Once You Donate You Can Go
Celebrate In Tuckahoe
You'll Feel Cheery
I'll Feel Cherry
Tho' I Dont Really Know That Theory
No Bathrobe
No Steuben Glass
No Cappucino Makers
No Pearls, No Diamonds
No 'Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire'
Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
No Room At The Holiday Inn, Oh No -
COPS:
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Just Like The Ones I Used To Know
Jingle Bells - Prison Cells
Fa La La La - Fa La La La
You Have The Right To Remain
Silent Night Holy Night
Fall On Your Knees On Night Divine
You'll Do Some Time
Fa La La La La
Fa La La La La
JUNKIES:
Got Any C Man?
Got Any D Man?
Got Any B Man?
Got Any X? - Crack?
I'm Willin' - I'm Illin'
Gotta Get My Sickness Off
C-D Help Me
Follow The Man Follow The Man
Follow The Man
Jugie Boogie-Jugie Boogie
Follow The Man Follow The Man
Any Crack Any X Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Any Blow Any X Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Got Any D Man, Got Any C Man
Got Any Crack-Any X-Any Jugie Boogie?
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Five
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Five
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Five
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
No Way
Twenty Four
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Four
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Four
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Not Today
Twenty Three
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Three
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Three
ANGEL:
Fifteen
It's Old
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty Two
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Twenty One
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Seventeen
ANGEL:
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR:
Fifteen
ANGEL & COAT VENDOR:
Sold!
MARK & ROGER:
Let's
The Lot - Maureen's Performing
MIMI:
Who's Maureen?
ROGER:
His Ex
MARK:
But I Am Over Her
ROGER:
Let's Not Hold Hands Yet
MIMI:
Is That A Warning
ALL THREE:
He/You/I
Just
Need(s)
To Take It Slow
I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Should Tell You I...
ALL:
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To---
MAUREEN:
Joanne, which way to the stage!
ALL:
MIMI
I jumped over the moon!
ROGER
What?
MIMI
A leap of mooooooooooooo -
JOANNE
She's back!
MIMI
I was in a tunnel.
Heading for this warm
White light...
MAUREEN
Oh, my God!
MIMI
And I swear Angel was there - And she looked good.
And she said
"Turn around, girlfriend -
And listen to that boy's song..."
COLLINS
She's drenched
MAUREEN
Her fever's breaking
MARK
There is no future -
There is no past
ROGER
Thank God
This moment's not the last
MIMI & ROGER
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
WOMEN
I can't control
My destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal
Is just to be
Will I lose my dignity
Will someone care
Will I wake tomorrow
From this nightmare
WOMEN
Without you
The hand gropes
The ear hears
The pulse beats
Life goes on
But I'm gone
'Cause I die
Without you
I die without you
I die without you
No day but today
I die without you
There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
No day but today
MAUREEN
I think we need an agent
MARK
JOANNE
That's selling out
MARK
But it's nice to dream
MAUREEN
Yeah it's network TV
And it's all thanks to me
MARK
Somehow I think I smell
The whiff of a scheme
JOANNE
Me too
MAUREEN
We can plan another protest
JOANNE
We?!
MAUREEN
This time
You can shoot from the start
You'll direct
Starring me!
5, 4, 3... Open sesame!
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
Happy New...
BENNY
I see that
You've beaten me to the punch
ROGER
How did you know we'd be here?
BENNY
I had a hunch
MARK
You're not mad?
BENNY
I'm here to end this war
It's a shame you went
And destroyed the door
MIMI
Why all the sudden
The big about face?
BENNY
The credit is yours
You made a good case
ROGER
What case?
BENNY
Mimi came to see me
And she had much to say
MIMI
That's not how you put it
At all yesterday
BENNY
I couldn't stop thinking
About the whole mess
Mark -
You want to get this on film
MARK
I guess
BENNY
I regret the
Unlucky circumstances
Of the past seven days
ROGER
Circumstance?
You padlocked our door
BENNY
And it's with great pleasure
On behalf of Cyberarts
That I hand you this key
ANGEL
Golf claps
MARK
I have no juice in my battery
BENNY
Reshoot
ROGER
I see -
This is a photo opportunity
MAUREEN
The benevolent god
Ushers the poor artists
Back to their flat
Were you planning on
Taking down the barbed wire
From the lot, too?
ROGER
Anything but that!
BENNY
Clearing the lot was a
Safety concern
We break ground this month
But you can return
MAUREEN
That's why you're here
With people you hate
Instead of with Muffy at Muffy's estate
BENNY
I'd honestly rather be with you tonight
Than in Westport -
ROGER
Spare us, old sport
The soundbite
BENNY
Mimi -
Since your ways are so seductive
MIMI
You came on to me!
BENNY
Persuade him not to be so counterproductive
ROGER
Liar!
BENNY
Why not tell them
What you wore to my place?
MIMI
I was on my way to work
BENNY
Black leather and lace!
My desk was a mess
I think I'm still sore
MIMI:
Cause I kicked him
And told him
I wasn't his whore!
BENNY
Does your boyfriend know
Who your last boyfriend was?
ROGER
I'm not her boyfriend
I don't care what she does
ANGEL
People! Is this any way to
Start a new year?
Have compassion
Benny just lost his cat
BENNY
My dog -
But I appreciate that
ANGEL
My cat had a fall
And I went through hell
BENNY
It's like losing a -
How did you know that she fell?
COLLINS
Champagne?
BENNY
Don't mind if I do
To dogs
ALL BUT BENNY
No, Benny - To you!
ANGEL
Let's make a resolution
MIMI
I'll drink to that
COLLINS
Let's always stay friends
JOANNE
Tho' we may have our disputes
MAUREEN
This family tree's got deep roots
MARK
Friendship is thicker than blood
ROGER
That depends
MIMI
Depends on trust
ROGER
Depends on true devotion
JOANNE
Depends on love
MARK
Depends on not denying emotion
ROGER
Perhaps
It's gonna be
A happy new year
ROGER
I guess
It's gonna be
A happy new year
ROGER
You're right
ANGEL
It's gonna be
A happy new year
ROGER & MIMI
I'm sorry
ROGER
Coming?
MIMI
In a minute
I'm fine - go
THE MAN
Well, well, well.
What have we here?
It's gonna be
A happy new year
Bustelo, Marlboro, banana by the bunch
A box of Captain Crunch will taste so good
And firewood, look, it's Santa Claus
Hold your applause, oh hi
Oh hi after seven months? Sorry
This boy could use some Stoli
Oh, holy night, struck gold at MIT
They expelled me for my theory of actual reality
Which I'll soon impart to the couch potatoes
At New York University
Still haven't left the house?
I was waiting for you, don't you know?
Well, tonight's the night
Come to the Life Cafe after Maureen's show, no flow
Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas Eve
Whose charity is only matched by talent, I believe
A new member of the Alphabet City
Avant Garde, Angel Dumott Schunard
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
And you should hear her beat
You earned this on the street?
It was my lucky day today on Avenue A
When a lady in a limousine drove my way
She said, "Darling, be a dear, haven't slept in a year
I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear"
"This Akita Evita just won't shut up
I believe if you play nonstop that pup
Will breathe its very last high strung breath
I'm certain that cur will bark itself to death"
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
We agreed on a fee, a thousand dollar guarantee
Tax free and a bonus if I trim her tree
Now who could foretell that it would go so well?
But sure as I am here that dog is now in doggy hell
After an hour, Evita in all her glory
On the window ledge of that 23rd story
Like Thelma and Louise did when they got the blues
Swan dove into the courtyard of the Gracie Mews
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
Back on the street where I met my sweet
Where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete
The nurse took him home for some Mercurochrome
And I dressed his wound and got him back on his feet, sing it
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
Today 4 u, tomorrow for me
I said, today 4 u, tomorrow for me
YOU'LL GET OVER IT
MAUREEN
It's times like these I really appreciate - Mark! Dear, I'm so glad
you're here! Honey, baby! You've lost some weight...I mean you've
always looked great.
MARK
I try Maureen.
MAUREEN
Back when we used to date.
MARK
You lie Maureen.
MAREEN
Now let's not get irate.
MARK
Why Maureen?
MAUREEN
Joanne ran for the cable but of course she's late.
MARK
I don't know why I even try Maureen.
MAUREEN
My samples won't delay, but the cable...
MARK
There's another way! Say something, anything!
MAUREEN
Test 1-2-1-2-3
MARK
Anything but that. Tell me what it's like
MAUREEN
What?
MARK
With a girl - tell me what it's like for a girl and a girl.
MAUREEN
No way!
MARK
Tell me - or I walk away.
MAUREEN
It's amazing!
MARK
Who's on top? Who wears the pants? Who leads when you dance? Give me
one more chance Maureen! This is just a phase like girls and horses!
And you never even wore flannel shirts! You'll get over it!
MAUREEN
How's it going?
MARK
Not good - I'm depressed.
MAUREEN
I meant the sampler.
MARK
I'm adapting - repatching!
MAUREEN
Thank God! You're the best!
MARK
MAUREEN
Don't be depressed! Tell me how you've been!
MARK
Why?
MAUREEN
Cause I care - tell me how you've been! God time flies!
MARK
Don't patronize!
MAUREEN
Tell me! We used to be friends!
MARK
I'm lonely, bored, and horny!!!
MAUREEN
Is there no one new? You need a mate! It's not too late! Have you even
had one date?
Boy, you just need some time then you'll be fine Mark! Anyway! I
treated you like dirt. You'll get over it! Just remember what you
hate about me! Though it may be hard.
MARK
How can you be so content without me? How can you disregard all we
had?
MAUREEN
Dysfunction!
MARK
All we said?
MAUREEN
I'm over men!
MARK
All we did!
MAUREEN
I slept around!
MARK
And you will again! Tell me what you'll do!
MAUREEN
When?
MARK
When you're bored! Tell me what you'll do when you tire of girls!
MAUREEN
I wont!
MARK
I'll tell you - you'll run back to me!
MAUREEN
Your fantasy!
MARK
You always do!
MAUREEN
Don't hold your breath!
MARK
I know your kind! Always change your mind!
MAUREEN
Don't be so blind! Can't you see? All my life I've known who I was
meant to be!
MARK
But you never even liked KD Lang!
MAUREEN/MARK
You'll get over it!
MARK
This is just a fad that will fade! You'll get over it!
MAUREEN
You just need to get laid! You'll get over it! In time we'll laugh
about this! You'll get over it!
MARK
In time you'll beg for my kiss!
MAUREEN
Don't bet on it!
MARK
Try it now!
MAUREEN
You'll get over it!
("You'll get over it" echoes)
Grrr!
MARK
I call this cause for hope!
MAUREEN
I would call this platonic - don't grope!!!
(JOANNE enters)
FIVE HOMELESS PEOPLE
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
On TV - At SAKS
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
Honest Living, Honest Living
ALL FIVE HOMELESS
Can't You Spare A Dime Or Two
Here But For The Grace Of God Go You
You'll Be Merry
I'll Be Merry
Tho Merry Ain't In My Vocabulary
No Sleighbells
No Santa Claus
No Yule Log
No Tinsel
No Holly
No Hearth
SOLOIST
'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'
ALL FIVE
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
No Room At The Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDORS
Hats, Bats, Shoes, Booze
Mountain Bikes, Potpourri
Leather Bags, Girlie Mags
Forty Fives, AZT
VENDOR #1
No One's Buying
Feel Like Crying
No Room AT THe Holiday Inn - Oh No
And It's Beginning To Snow
VENDOR #2
How About A Fur-
In Perfect Shape
Owned By An MBA From Uptown
I Got A Tweed
Broken In By A Greedy
Broker Who Went Broke
And Then Broke Down
COLLINS
You Don't Have To Do This
ANGEL
Hush Your Mouth, It's Christmas
COLLINS
I Do Not Deserve You, Angel
COLLINS
Give - Give
All You Do
Is Give
Give Me Some
Way To Show
How You've Touched
Me So
ANGEL
Wait - What's On
The Floor?
Let's See Some
More
No - No - No...
ANGEL
Kiss Me - It's Beginning To Snow
MARK
... She Said, 'Would You Light My Candle'
And She Put On A Pout
And She Wanted You
To Take Her Out Tonight?
ROGER
Right
MARK
She Got You Out!
ROGER
She Was More Than Okay
But I Pushed Her Away
It Was Bad - I Got Mad
And I Had To Get Her Out Of My Sight
MARK
Wait, Wait Wait - You Said She Was
Sweet
ROGER
Let's Go Eat I'll Just Get Fat
It's The One Vice Left-When You're
Dead Meat
There - That's Her
MARK
Maureen?
ROGER
Mimi!
MARK
ROGER
I Should Go
BOTH
Hey - It's Beginning To Snow
COPS
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
MIMI & JUNKIES
Follow The Man - Follow The Man
With His Pockets Ful Of The Jam
Follow The Man - Follow The Man
Help Me Out, Daddy
If You Can
Got Any D Man?
THE MAN
I'm Cool
MIMI & JUNKIES
Got Any C Man
THE MAN
I'm Cool
MIMI & JUNKIES
Got Any X
Any Smack
Any Horse
Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Any Blow?
ROGER
MIMI
ROGER
I Just Want To Say
I'm Sorry For The Way --
MIMI
Forget It
ROGER
I Blew Up
Can I Make It Up To You?
MIMI
How?
ROGER
Dinner Party?
MIMI
That'll Do
THE MAN
Hey Lover Boy - Cutie Pie
You Steal My Client - You Die
ROGER
You Didn't Miss Me - You Won't Miss Her
You'll Never Lack For Customers
JUNKIES
I'm Willin'
I'm Illin'
I Gotta Get My Sickness Off
Gotta Run, Gotta Ride
Gotta Gun, Gotta Hide -- Gotta Go
THE MAN
And It's Beginning To Snow
BENNY
(On cellular phone)
Wish Me Luck Alison -
The Protest Is On
COAT VENDOR
L. L. Bean,
Geoffrey Beene
Burburry Zip Out
Lining JUNKIES
Got Any C Man?
Got Any D Man?
Got Any B Man
Got Any Crack
Got Any X
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living -
ROGER
Mark, This Is Mimi -
MARK/MIMI
ROGER
She's Be Dining - (With Us)
COAT VENDOR
Here's A New Arrival
THE MAN
That Is An Ounce
VENDORS
Hats, Dats, Bats
COLLINS
That's My Coat!
COAT VENDOR
We Give Discounts
MARK
I Think We've Met
ANGEL
Let's Get A Better One
COLLINS
It's A Sham
MIMI
That's What He Said
THE MAN
I Said It's A Gram!
COLLINS
But She's A Thief!
ANGEL
But She Brought Us Together
BENNY
Which Investor Is Coming??
COLLINS
I'll Take The Leather
BENNY
Your Father? - Damn!
HOMELESS & VENDORS
Christmas Bells Are Swinging
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
In My Dreams - Next Year
Once You Donate You Can Go
Celebrate In Tuckahoe
You'll Feel Cheery
I'll Feel Cherry
Tho' I Dont Really Know That Theory
No Bathrobe
No Steuben Glass
No Cappucino Makers
No Pearls, No Diamonds
No 'Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire'
Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
No Room At The Holiday Inn, Oh No -
COPS
I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Just Like The Ones I Used To Know
Jingle Bells - Prison Cells
Fa La La La - Fa La La La
You Have The Right To Remain
Silent Night Holy Night
Fall On Your Knees On Night Divine
You'll Do Some Time
Fa La La La La
Fa La La La La
JUNKIES
Got Any C Man?
Got Any D Man?
Got Any B Man?
Got Any X? - Crack?
I'm Willin' - I'm Illin'
Gotta Get My Sickness Off
C-D Help Me
Follow The Man Follow The Man
Follow The Man
Jugie Boogie-Jugie Boogie
Follow The Man Follow The Man
Any Crack Any X Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Any Blow Any X Any Jugie Boogie Boy
Got Any D Man, Got Any C Man
Got Any Crack-Any X-Any Jugie Boogie?
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Five
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Five
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Five
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
No Way
Twenty Four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Four
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Not Today
Twenty Three
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Three
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Three
ANGEL
Fifteen
It's Old
COAT VENDOR
Twenty Two
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Twenty One
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Seventeen
ANGEL
Fifteen
COAT VENDOR
Fifteen
ANGEL & COAT VENDOR
Sold!
MARK & ROGER
Let's
The Lot - Maureen's Performing
MIMI
Who's Maureen?
ROGER
His Ex
MARK
But I Am Over Her
ROGER
Let's Not Hold Hands Yet
MIMI
Is That A Warning
ALL THREE
He/You/I
Just
Need(s)
To Take It Slow
I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Should Tell You I Should Tell You
I Should Tell You I...
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To
And It's Beginning To---
MAUREEN
Joanne, which way to the stage!
ANGEL
New York City-
MARK
Uh Huh
ANGEL
Center Of The Universe
COLLINS
Sing It Girl-
ANGEL
Times Are Shitty
But I'm Pretty Sure They Can't Get Worse
MARK
I Hear That
ANGEL
It's A Comfort To Know
When You're Singing The Hit The Road Blues
That Anywhere Else You Could Possibly Go
After New York Would Be A Pleasure
Cruise
COLLINS
Now You're Talking
Well, I'm Thwarted By A Metaphysic
Puzzle
And I'm Sick Of Grading Papers-That I
Know
And I'm Shouting In My Sleep, I Need A Muzzle
All This Misery Pays No Salary, So
Let's Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
Oh Sunny Santa Fe Would Be Nice
We'll Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
And Leave This To The Roaches And Mice
Oh--Oh
Oh--
ANGEL
You Teach?
COLLINS
Ya - I Teach Computer Age Philosophy
While My Students Would Rather Watch TV
ANGEL
America
America!
COLLINS
You're A Sensitive Aesthete
Brush The Sauce Onto The Meat
You Could Make The Menu Sparkle
With Rhyme
You Could Drum A Gentle Drum
I Could Seat Guests As They Come
Chatting Not About Heidegger, But Wine!
Let's Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
Our Labors Would Reap Financial Gain
Gain, Gain, Gain
COLLINS
We'll Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
And Save From Devastation Our Brains
HOMELESS
Save Our Brains
We'll Pack Up All Our Junk And Fly
So Far Away
Devote Ourselves To Projects That Sell
We'll Open Up A Restaurant In Santa Fe
Forget This Cold Bohemian Hell
Oh--
Oh--
COLLINS
Do You Know The Way To Santa Fe?
You Know, Tumbleweeds... Prairie Dogs...
All:
MARK
Don't breathe too deep
Don't think all day
Dive into work
Drive the other way
That drip of hurt
That pint of shame
Goes away
Just play the game
You're living in America
At the end of the millennium
You're living in America
Leave your conscience at the tone
And when you're living in America
At the end of the millennium
You're what you own
ROGER
The filmmaker cannot see
MARK
And the songwriter cannot hear
ROGER
Yet I see Mimi everywhere
MARK
Angel's voice is in my ear
ROGER
Just tighten those shoulders
MARK
Just clench your jaw
Til you frown
ROGER
Just don't let go
BOTH
Or you may drown
You're living in America
At the end of the millennium
You're living in America
Where it's like the
Twilight Zone
And when you're living in America
At the end of the millennium
You're what you own
So I own not a notion
I escape and ape content
I don't own emotion - I rent
MARK
What was it about that night
ROGER
What was it about that night
BOTH
Connection -
In an isolating age
MARK
For once the shadows
Gave way to light
ROGER
For once the shadows
Gave way to light
BOTH
For once I didn't disengage
MARK
Angel -I hear you - I hear it
I see it - I see it
My film!
ROGER
Mimi I see you -
I see it
I hear it- I hear it
My song!
MARK:
Alexi - Mark
Call me a hypocrite
I need to finish my film
I quit!
ROGER
One song - Glory
Mimi
Your eyes
BOTH
Dying in America
At the end of the millennium
We're dying in America
To come into our own
And when you're dying in America
At the end of the millennium
You're not alone
I'm not alone
THREE HOMELESS PEOPLE
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing
Christmas Bells Are Ringing -
Out Of Town
Santa Fe
SQUEEGIEMAN
Honest Living, Man!
Feliz Navidad!
HOMELESS PERSON
Evening, Officers
MARK
Smile For Ted Koppel, Officer Martin!
COLLINS
And a Merry Christmas to your families
COPS
Right!
BLANKET PERSON
Who The Fuck Do You Think You Think You Are?
I Don't Need Any Goddamn Help
From Some Bleeding Heart Cameraman
My Life's Not For You To
Make A Name For Yourself On!
ANGEL
Easy Sugar, Easy
He Was Just Trying To--
BLANKET PERSON
Just Trying To Use Me To Kill His Guilt
It's Not That Kind Of Movie, Honey
Let's Go - This Lot Is Full Of
Motherfucking Artists
Hey Artist
You Gotta Dollar?
MIMI
It's True You Sold Your Guitar And
Bought A Car?
ROGER
It's True - I'm Leaving Now For Santa Fe
It's True You're With This Yuppie Scum?
BENNY
You Said You'd Never Speak To Him
Again
MIMI
Not Now
MAUREEN
Who Said That You Have Any Say
In Who She Says Things To At All?
ROGER
Yeah!
JOANNE
Who Said That You Should Stick Your
Nose In Other People's...
MAUREEN
Who Said I Was Talking To You?
JOANNE
We Used To Have This
Fight Each Night
She'd Never Admit I
Existed MARK
Calm Down
Everyone Please
MIMI
He Was The Same Way - He Was Always
"Run Away - Hit The Road
Don't Commit"-You're Full Of Shit
JOANNE
She's In Denial
MIMI
He's In Denial
JOANNE
Didn't Give An Inch
When I Gave A Mile
MARK
Come On
MIMI
I Gave A Mile
ROGER
Gave A Mile To Who?
MARK & BENNY
Come On Guys Chill!
MIMI & JOANNE
I'D Be Happy To Die FOr A Taste
Of What Angel Had
Someone To Live For-Unafraid
To Say I Love You
ROGER
All Your Words Are Nice Mimi
But Love's Not A Three Way Street
You'll Never Share Real Love
Until you Love Your Self-I Should Know
COLLINS
You All Said You'd Be Coll Today
So Please-For My Sake...
I Can't Believe He's Gone
I Can't Believe He's Going (to Roger)
I Can't Believe This Family Must Die
Angel Helped Us Believe In Love
I Can't Believe You Disagree
I Can't Believe This Is Goodbye
[Maureen and Joanne reconcile and go home. Collins
returns to the funeral home. Mimi and Benny leave
together. Roger and Mark are left alone.]
MARK
I Hear There Are Great Restaurants
Out West
ROGER
Some Of The Best. How Could She?
MARK
How Could You Let Her Go?
ROGER
You Just Don't Know... How Could We
Lose Angel?
MARK
Maybe You'll See Why When You Stop
Escaping Your Pain
At Least Now If You Try-Angel's Death
Won't Be In Vain
ROGER
His Death Is In Vain
MARK
Are You Insane?
There's So Much To Care About
There's Me-There's Mimi-
ROGER
Mimi's Got Her Baggage Too
MARK
So Do You
ROGER
Who Are You To Tell Me What I Know,
What To Do
MARK
A Friend
ROGER
Who Who, Mark, Are You?
"Mark Has GOt His Work"
They Say "Mark Lives For His Work"
And "Mark's In Love With His Work"
Mark Hides In His Work
MARK
But From What?
ROGER
From Facing Your Failure, Facing Your
Loneliness
Facing The Fact You Live A Lie
Yes, You Live A Lie - Tell You Why
You're Always Preaching Not To
Be Numb
When That's How You Thrive
You Pretend To Create And Observe
When You Really Detach From Feeling
Alive
MARK
Perhaps It's Because I'm The One Of Us
To Survive
ROGER
Poor Baby
MARK
Mimi Still Loves Roger
Is Roger Really Jealous
Or Afraid That Mimi's Weak
ROGER
Mimi Did Look Pale
MARK
Mimi's Gotten Thin
Mimi's Running Out Of Time
Roger's Running Out The Door--
ROGER
No More! Oh No!
I've Gotta Go
MARK
Hey, for somebody who's always been let down
Who's heading out of town?
ROGER
For someone who longs for a commmunity of his
own, who's with his camera, alone?
I'll call
I hate the fall
(Mimi re-enters)
ROGER
You Heard?
MIMI
Every Word
You Don't Want Baggage Without
Lifetime Guarantees
You Don't Want To Watch Me Die?
I Just Came To Say
Goodbye, Love
Goodbye, Love
Came To Say Goodbye, Love, Goodbye
MIMI
Just Came To Say
Goodbye Love
Goodbye Love
Goodbye Love,
Goodbye!
(Roger leaves, Benny enters)
ROGER
Glory
One Blaze Of
Glory
Have To Find
MIMI
Please Don't Touch Me
Understand
I'm Scared
I Need To Go Away
MARK
I Know A Place - A Clinic
BENNY
A Rehab?
MIMI
Maybe--Could You?
BENNY
I'll Pay
MIMI
Goodbye Love
Goodbye Love
Came To Say Goodbye, Love, Goodbye
Just Came To Say
Goodbye Love
Goodbye Love
Goodbye Love
Hello - Disease
[Mimi runs away. Collins is booted from the funeral
home when he can't pay the bill. Benny offers to pay;
hen he and Collins go drinking. Mark stays behind to
Mimi:
Without you, the ground thaws
the rain falls
the grass grows
Without you, the seeds root
the flowers bloom
the children play
The stars gleam
the poets dream
the eagles fly
without you
The Earth turns
the sun burns
but I die, without you
Without you, the breeze warms
the girl smiles
the cloud moves
Without you, the tides change
the boys run
the oceans crash
The crowds roar
the days soar
the babies cry
without you
The moon glows
the river flows
but I die without you
The world revives
colors renew
but I know blue
only blue
lonely blue
Without you
Without you, the hand gropes
the ear hears
the pulse beats
Roger:
Without you, the eyes gaze
the legs walk
the lungs breathe
The mind churns
Mimi:
The mind churn
Roger:
The heart yearns
Mimi:
The heart yearns.
Both:
the tears dry without you
Life goes on
but I'm gone
'cause I die, without you
without you
without you
Love Heals - RENT
Maureen
Like a breath of midnight air. Like a lighthouse, like a prayer.
Angel
Like the flicker and the flare, the sky reveals
Maureen/Angel
Like a walk along the shore that you've walked a thousand times before. Like the oceans roar.
Maureen
Love heals.
Joanne
There are those who shield their hearts. Those who quit before they start.
Roger
Who've frozen up the part of them that feels.
Background
Don't freeze your heart
Roger/Joanne
In the dark they've lost their sight. Like a ship without a star in the night, but hold on tight.
COMPANY: Love heals
Joanne: When you feel like you can't go on
COMPANY: Love heals
Joanne: Hold on to love, it'll keep you strong
COMPANY: Love heals
Joanne: When you feel like you can't go on
COMPANY: Love heals
Collins: Hold on to love, and it will bring you home
Maureen/Benny
Love heals when pain's too much to bear. When you reach out your hand, and only the wind is there.
Mimi/Mark
When life's unfair. When things like us are not to be.
Maureen/Benny
Love heals when you feel so small, like a grain of sand--like nothing at all.
Joanne/Collins
When you look out at the sea, thats where love will be. Thats where you'll find me. You'll find me.
Joanne
If you fear the storm ahead
Maureen
As you lie, you lie awake in bed
Joanne
And there's no one
Maureen
No one
Joanne
No one there to stroke your head
Maureen
And your mind
Joanne
Your mind
Maureen/Joanne
Your mind reels
Mimi
If your face is salty wet, and you're drowning in regret, just...
(clapping, beat slows down-various characters)
Don't forget(x4)
Company:
Love heals
Collins:
When you feel like you cant go on
Company:
Love heals
Collins:
Love, love is gonna carry you home
Company:
Love heals
Collins:
when you feel like, when you feel like you can't go on
Company:
Love heals
Collins:
Hold onto love and it will lead you home
Maureen:
Every single day
I walk down the street
I hear people say,
"Baby's so sweet"
Ever since puberty
Everybody stares at me
Boys, girls -
I can't can't help it baby
So be kind
Don't lose your mind
Just remember that I'm your baby
Take me for what I am
Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
Take me baby or leave me
A tiger in a cage
Can never see the sun
This diva needs her stage
Baby - let's have fun!
You are the one I choose
Folks would kill to fill your shoes
You love the limelight too, now baby
So be mine
And don't waste my time
Cryin' - "Oh Honeybear - are you still my baby?"
Take me for what I am
Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
No way - can I be what I'm not
But hey - don't you want your girl hot!
Don't fight - don't lose your head
Cause every night - who's in your bed?
Who's in your bed, baby?
Kiss Pookie
Joanne:
It won't work.
I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby what's my sin?
Never quit - I follow through
I hate mess - but I love you
What to do
With my impromptu baby
So be wise
This girl satisfies
You've got a prize
But don't compromise
You're one lucky baby
Take me for what I am
Maureen:
A control freak
Joanne:
Who I was meant to be
Maureen:
A snob - yet over-attentive
Joanne:
And if you give a damn
Maureen:
A lovable, droll geek
Joanne:
Take me baby or leave me
Maureen:
And anal retentive
Both:
That's it!
Joanne:
The straw that breaks my back
Both:
I quit
Joanne:
Unless you take it back
Both:
Women
Maureen:
What is it about them?
Both:
Can't live -
With them -
Or without them!
Take me for what I am
Who I was meant to be
And if you give a damn
Take me baby or leave me
Take me baby
Or leave me
Guess I'm leavin'
Joanne
(on cellular phone)
Steve-Joanne
The Murget Case?
A Dismissal!
Good Work Counselor
(The pay phone rings)
We're Okay
Honeybear - Wait!
I'm On The Other Phone
Yes I Have The Cowbell
We're Okay
(into cellular phone)
So Tell Them We'll Sue
But A Settlement Will Do
Sexual Harassment - And Civil Rights Too
Steve, You're Great
(into pay phone)
No You Cut The Paper Plate
Didja Cheat On Mark A Lot Would You Say?
We're Okay
Honey, hold on...
(into cellular phone)
Steve, hold on...
(SHE presses call waiting button on
cellular phone)
Hello?
Dad - Yes
I Beeped You
Maureen Is Coming To Mother's Hearing
We're Okay
(into pay phone)
Honeybear - What?
Newt's Lesbian Sister
I'll Tell Him
(into cellular phone)
You Heard?
(into pay phone)
They Heard
We're Okay
(into cellular phone)
And To You Dad
(She presses call waiting as she says into
pay phone)
Yes - Jill Is There?
(into cellular phone)
Steve Gotta -
(into pay phone)
Jill With The Short Black Hair?
The Calvin Klein Model?
(into cellular phone)
Steve Gotta Go!
(into pay phone)
The Model Who Lives In Penthouse A?
We're
We're Okay
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
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
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
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
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
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
