[The Emcee plays a recording on a phonograph.]
[BOY SOPRANO]
The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The branch of the linden is leafy and green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee.
But soon, says a whisper;
"Arise, arise,
Tomorrow belongs..."
[EMCEE (spoken)]
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
You say fifty marks. I say one hundred marks, a
[spoken in rythm]
difference of fifty marks-
Why should that stand in our way?
As long as the room gets let,
the fifty that I will get
is fifty more that I had yesterday,
When you're as old as I..
is anyone as old as I?-
What difference does it make?
An offer comes, you take.
[sings]
For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?
When I was a girl,
My summers were spent by the sea.
So what?
And I had a maid
Doing all of the house-work, not me.
So what?
Now I scrub all the floors
And I wash down the walls
And I empty the chamber pot.
If it ended that way,
Then it ended that way,
And I shrug and I say:
So what?
For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?
When I had a man,
My figure was dumpy and fat.
So what?
Through all of our years
He was so disappointed in that.
So what?
Now I have what he missed
And my figure is trim,
But he lies in a churchyard plot
If it wasn't to be
That he ever would see
The uncorseted me,
So what?
For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?
So once I was rich
And now all my fortune is gone,
So what?
And love disappeared
And only the memory lives on,
And so what?
If I've lived through all that
(And I've lived through all that)
Fifty marks doesn't mean a lot.
If I like that you're here
(And I like that you're here)
Happy New Year, my dear,
So what?
For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And learn how to settle
For what you get.
It will all go on if we're here or not
So who cares? So what?
So who cares? So what?
It all goes on.
So who cares? Who cares?
[EMCEE]
Willkommen, beinvenue, welcome
Fremde, etranger, stranger
Gluklich, zu sehen, je suis enchante,
Happy, to see you, bleibe reste stay
Willkomen, beinvenue, welcome,
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
[SPOKEN]
Mein Damen und Herren,Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen! Guden Abend, bon soir, We geht's? Comment ca va? Do you feel good? I bet you do! Ich bin euer, je suis votre compere... I am your host.
Und sagen,
Willkomen, beinvenue, welcome,
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
Leave your troubles outside,
So- life is disappointing? Forget it!
We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful... The girls are beautiful... Even the orchestra, is beautiful.
You see, I told you the orchestra, is beautiful.
And now, presenting the Cabaret girls.
Rosie, Lulu, Frenchie, Texas, Fritzie... Und Helga. Each and every one, a virgin. Ooh, you don't beleive me? Well don't take my word for it, try Helga.
Outside it is Winter, but in here, it it so hot! Every night we have to battle with the girls to keep them from taking off all their clothes. So, don't go away. Who knows, tonight, we may lose the battle!
[KIT KAT GIRLS]
Wir sagen, Willkommen beinvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret to Cabaret!
[EMCEE]
We are here to serve you!
And now presnting the Kit Kat boys!
Here they are. Bobby! Victor!
Or is it Victor! Bobby... You know there's only one way to tell the difference... I'll show you later.
Hans, Herrman,
And finally, the toast og Mayfir Fraulein Sally Bowles!
[SALLY]
Hello, darlings!
[EMCEE]
Bliebe, reste, stay!
[ALL]
Willkommen, beinvenue, welcome!
[EMCEE]
Thats Victor.
[ALL]
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret
[whispered]
Willkommen, beinvenue, welcome,
Frende, etranger, stranger,
[EMCEE]
Hello, stranger!
[ALL]
Gluklich, zu sehen, je suis enchante,
[EMCEE]
Enchate madam!
[ALL]
Happy, to see you, Bliebe reste stay,
Willkommen, beinvenue, welcome!
Fremde, etranger, stranger!
Gluklich, zu sehen, je suis enchate
Happy, to see you, bliebe reste stay,
Wir sagen,
Willkommen beinvenue, welcome,
Im Cabaret! Au Cabaret! To Cabaret!
[EMCEE]
Thank you!
Bobby, Victor, Hans, Rosie, Lulu, Frenchie, Texas, Fritzie, Helga, Sally and me!
[EMCEE (spoken)]
So, you see, everybody in Berlin has a perfectly
marvellous roommate. Some people have two people.
[GIRL 1]
Beedle dee, deedle dee, dee!
[GIRL 2]
Beedle dee, deedle dee, dee!
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, deedle dee, Beedle dee, deedle dee,
Dee!
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee,
[EMCEE]
Two ladies.
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee,
[EMCEE]
Two ladies.
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee,
[EMCEE]
And I'm the only man,
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
I like it.
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
They like it.
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
This two for one.
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRLS]
Two ladies.
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRLS]
Two ladies.
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee,
[GIRLS]
Und he's the only man
[EMCEE]
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRL 1]
He likes it.
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRL 2]
We like it.
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRLS]
This two for one.
[GIRL 2]
I do the cooking...
[GIRL 1]
Und I make the bed.
[EMCEE]
I go out daily
To earn our daily bread.
But we've one thing in common,
[GIRL 1]
He...
[EMCEE]
She...
[GIRL 2]
And me,
[GIRL 1]
The key,
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee,
[GIRL 2]
The key,
[EMCEE]
Beedle dee, dee, the key,
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, deedle dee, deedle dee, dee!
[DANCE]
[GIRLS]
Ooh! Aah! Ooh! Aah!
[EMCEE]
We switch partners daily
To play as we please.
[GIRLS]
Twosies beats onesies,
[EMCEE]
But nothing beats threes.
I sleep in the middle,
[GIRL 1]
I'm left,
[GIRL 2]
Und I'm right,
[EMCEE]
But there's room on the bottom
If you drop in some night.
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
Two ladies.
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[GIRLS]
Two ladies.
Beedle dee, dee dee dee,
And he's the only man.
[ALL]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
I like it,
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[EMCEE]
They like it!
[GIRLS]
Beedle dee, dee dee dee...
[ALL]
This tow for one.
Beedle dee, deedle dee, deedle dee,
Deedle dee, dee!
[EMCEE (spoken)]
Thank you! Lulu! Bobby! And me!!
Oh, I'm so hot now!
[The Emcee plays a recording on a phonograph.]
[BOY SOPRANO]
The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The branch of the linden is leafy and green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee.
But soon, says a whisper;
"Arise, arise,
Tomorrow belongs..."
[EMCEE (spoken)]
[SALLY (spoken)]
I think people are perfectly marvellous, I really do, Cliff.
Don't you? I don't think people should have to explain
anything. For example, if I should paint my fingernails green
and it just so happens I do paint them green, well, if anyone
should ask me why, I say: " I think it's pretty!" ("I think
it's pretty," I reply.) So, if anyone should ask about you
and me, you have two alternatives: you can either say,
"Oh, yes, it's true. We're living in delicious sin." Or
you can simple tell the truth, and say:
I met this perfectly marvellous girl
In this perfectly wonderful place
As I lifted a glass
To the start of a marvellous year.
Before I knew she called on the phone,
Inviting.
Next moment I was no longer alone,
But sat reciting
Some perfectly beautiful verse,
In my charming American style.
How I dazzled her senses
Was truly no less than a crime.
Now I've this perfectly marvelous girl
In my perfectly beautiful room
And we're living together
And having a marvellous time.
[CLIFF (spoken)]
Sally, I'm afraid this wouldn't work out. You're much
too distracting.
[SALLY (spoken)]
Distracting? No, inspiring!
She tell me perfectly marvellous tales
Of her thrillingly scandalous life
Which I'll probably use
As a chapter or two in my book.
And since my stay in Berlin was to force
Creation,
What luck to fall on a fabulous source
Of stimulation.
And perfectly marvellous, too,
Is her perfect agreement to be
Just as still as a mouse
When I'm giving my novel a whirl.
Yes, I've a highly agreeable life
In my perfectly beautiful room
With my nearly invisible,
Perfectly marvellous, girl.
[CLIFF (spoken)]
Sally- I just can't afford... Do you have any money?
[SALLY]
A few marks... Six!
[CLIFF]
Oh, God!
[SALLY]
Oh, please, Cliff- just for a day or two? Please!
[CLIFF]
I... met... this...
Truly remarkable girl
In this really incredible town,
And she skillfully managed
To talk her way in to my room.
[SALLY]
Oh, Cliff!
[CLIFF]
I have a terrible feeling I've said
A dumb thing.
Beside, I've only got one narrow bed.
[SALLY]
[EMCEE]
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round.
[GIRLS]
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money
[EMCEE]
If you happen
To be rich,
[GIRLS]
.......Ooooh
[EMCEE]
And you feel like a
Night's enetertainment,
[GIRLS]
...Money
[EMCEE]
You can pay for a
Gay escapade.
[GIRLS]
Money money
Money money
Money money
Money money
[EMCEE]
If you happen to
To be rich,
[GIRLS]
.......Ooooh
[EMCEE]
And alone, and you
Need a companion
[GIRLS]
...Money
[EMCEE]
You can ring-ting-
A-ling for the maid.
[EMCEE]
If you happen
To be rich
[GIRLS]
.....Ooooh
[EMCEE]
And you find you are
Left by your lover,
[GIRLS]
...Money
[EMCEE]
Though you moan
And you groan
Quite a lot,
[GIRLS]
Money money
Money money
Money money
Money money
[EMCEE]
You can take it
On the chin,
[GIRLS]
.....Ooooh
[EMCEE]
Call a cab,
And begin
[GIRLS]
...Money
[EMCEE]
To recover
On your fourteen-
Carat yacht.
[EMCEE]
Money makes the world go around,
The world go around,
The world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
Of that we can be sure.
(....) on being poor.
[ALL]
Money money money-
money money money
Money money money-
money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
[DANCE BREAK]
[EMCEE AND GIRLS (In Canon)]
If you haven't any coal in the stove
And you freeze in the winter
And you curse on the wind
At your fate
When you haven't any shoes
On your feet
And your coat's thin as paper
And you look thirty pounds
Underweight.
When you go to get a word of advice
From the fat little pastor
He will tell you to love evermore.
But when hunger comes a rap,
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window...
[GIRLS]
At the window...
[EMCEE (spoken)]
Who's there?
[GIRLS (spoken)]
Hunger!
[EMCEE (Spoken)]
Ooh, hunger!
See how love flies out the door...
[EMCEE]
Money makes
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
The world...
[GIRLS]
...Go around
[EMCEE]
Money makes the
.... Go around
[GIRLS]
...Go around
That clinking
Clanking sound of
Money money money money money money
Money money money money money money
[EMCEE]
Get a little,
[GIRLS]
Money money
[EMCEE]
Get a little,
[GIRLS]
Money money
[EMCEE]
Money money
[GIRLS]
Money money
[EMCEE]
Money money
[GIRLS]
Money money
[EMCEE]
Mark, a yen, a buck
[GIRLS]
Get a little
[EMCEE]
Or a pound
[GIRLS]
Get a little
[EMCEE]
That clinking clanking
[GIRLS]
Get a little
Get a little
[EMCEE]
Clinking sound
[GIRLS]
Money money
Money money...
[EMCEE]
Is all that makes
The world go 'round
[GIRLS]
Money money
Money money
[EMCEE]
Meine Damen und Herren. Mesdames et Messieurs,
Ladies and Gentlemen; it is almost midnight!
Husbands- you have only ten seconds in which to
lose your wives! Five- four- three- two- one!
Happy New Year!
[SALLY]
You have to understand the way I am,
Mein Herr.
A tiger is a tiger, not a lamb.
Mein Herr.
You'll never turn the vinegar to jam,
Mein Herr.
So I do...
What I do...
When I'm through...
Then I'm through...
And I'm through...
Toodle-oo!
Bye-Bye, Mein Lieber Herr.
Farewell, mein Lieber Herr.
It was a fine affair,
But now it's over.
And though I used to care,
I need the open air.
You're better off without me,
Mein Herr.
Don't dab your eye, mein Herr,
Or wonder why, Mein Herr.
I've always told you I was a rover.
You mustn't knit your brow,
You should have known by now
You'd every cause to doubt me,
Mein, Herr.
The continent of Europe is so wide,
Mein Herr.
Not only up and down, but side to side,
Mein Herr.
I couldn't ever cross it if I tried,
Mein Herr.
So I do..
What I can...
Inch by inch...
Step by step...
Mile by mile...
Man by man.
Bye-Bye, Mein Lieber Herr.
Farewell, mein Lieber Herr.
It was a fine affair,
But now it's over.
And though I used to care,
I need the open air.
You're better off without me,
Mein Herr.
[SALLY AND GIRLS]
Don't dab your eye, mein Herr,
Or wonder why, Mein Herr.
I've always told you I was a rover.
You mustn't knit your brow,
You should have known by now
You'd every cause to doubt me,
Mein, Herr.
Bye-bye, mein Lieber Herr,
Auf wiedersehen, mein Herr.
Es war sehr gut, mein Herr
Und vorbei.
Du kennst mich wohl, mein Herr,
Ach, lebe wohl, mein Herr.
Du sollst mich nicht mehr sehen,
Mein Herr.
[SALLY]
Bye-bye, mein Lieber
[GIRLS]
Bye-bye, mein
Lieber Herr
[SALLY]
Herr...
[GIRLS]
Auf weidersehen,
Mein Herr.
Es war sehr gut,
[SALLY]
Und Vorbei.
[GIRLS]
Mein Herr
Und vorbei.
[SALLY]
Du kennst
Mich wohl,
[GIRLS]
Du kennst mich,
Wohl, mein
Herr,
[SALLY]
Mein Herr...
[GIRLS]
Ach, lebe
Wohl, mein
Herr.
Du sollst mich
Nicht mehr
Sehen,
[SALLY]
And bye-bye
[SALLY AND GIRLS]
Bye-Bye, Mein Lieber Herr;
Farewell, mein Lieber Herr.
It was a fine affair,
But now it's over.
And though I-
Used to care,
I need the-
Open air.
[SALLY]
You're better off
Without me,
[GIRLS]
Auf wiedersehen...
[SALLY]
You'll get on
Without me
[GIRLS]
Es war sehr gut...
[SALLY]
Mein
[GIRLS]
Du kennst nicht
[SALLY]
Herr...
[GIRLS]
Wohl...
Ach, lebe wohl!
Bye bye, mein
[SALLY]
Herr,...
[GIRLS]
Auf wiedersehen,...
Bye bye mein Herr!
[EMCEE]
The final performance of Sally Bowles! Thank you,
[SALLY]
Maybe this time, I'll be lucky
Maybe this time, he'll stay
Maybe this time
For the first time
Love won't hurry away
He will hold me fast
I'll be home at last
Not a loser anymore
Like the last time
And the time before
Everybody loves a winner
So nobody loved me;
'Lady Peaceful,' 'Lady Happy,'
That's what I long to be
All the odds are in my favor
Something's bound to begin
It's got to happen, happen sometime
SCULTZ (spoken)]
You hesitate because you have never been married.
It frightens you. Believe me, it can work wonders...
How the world can change
It can change like that-
Due to one little word:
"married".
See a palace rise
From a two room flat
Due to one little word:
"Married".
And the old despair
That was often there
Suddenly ceases to be
For you wake one day,
Look around and say:
Somebody wonderful married me.
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER (spoken)]
You don't think it would be better simply to go
on as before?
[SCHULTZ]
[FRAULEIN KOST]
O wie wunderbar,
Nichts ist so wie-es-war,
Durch ein winziges wort:
"Heirat."
Aus dem erdgeschoss
Wird ein marchenschloss
Durch ein winziges wort:
"Heirat".
Und das grau
Wird auf einmal blau,
Wie noch kein blau jemals war.
Und dann steht man da,
Sagt beseligt'ja,
Heut'wird mein traum
Nicht so grau in grau.'
[whispered]
Ah! wie wunderbar,
Nichts ist so wie-es-war,
Durch ein winziges wort:
"Heirat."
Aus dem erdgeschoss
Wird ein marchenschloss
Durch ein winziges wort:
"Heirat".
[SCHULTZ]
And the old despair
[FRAULEIN KOST]
Und das grau
In grau
[SCHULTZ]
That was often there
[FRAULEIN KOST]
Wird auf einmal
Blau,
[SCHULTZ]
Suddenly ceases to be
[FRAULEIN KOST]
Heut nacht
Mein traum
Jemals war.
[SCHULTZ AND SCHNEIDER]
For you wake one day,
Look around and say:
[SCHULTZ]
"Somebody wonderful"
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
"Somebody wonderful"
[BOTH ]
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER (spoken)]
Herr Schultz. Can I beleive what I see?
But this is too much to accept.
It's so rare... so costly... so luxurious...
If you brought me diamonds,
If you brought me pearls,
If you brought me roses
Like some other gents
Might bring to other girls,
It couldn't please me more
Than the gift I see;
A pineapple for me.
[SCHULTZ]
If in your emotion
You begin to sway
Went to get some air
Or grabbed a chair
To keep from fainting dead away,
It couldn't please me more
Than to see you cling
To the pineapple I bring.
[BOTH]
Ah...
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
I can hear Hawaiian breezes blow
[BOTH]
Ah...
[SCHULTZ]
It's from California
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Even so.
How am I to thank you?
[SCHULTZ]
Kindly let it pass,
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Would you like a slice?
[SCHULTZ]
That might be nice,
But frankly, it would give me gas.
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Then we shall leave it here,
Not ot eat, but see:
[BOTH]
A pineapple...
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
For me.
[SCHULTZ]
From me.
[BOTH]
Ah...
[dance]
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER (spoken)]
But you must not bring me any more pineapples.
Do you hear? It is not proper.
It is a gift a young man would bring to his lady-love.
it makes me blush.
[SCHULTZ (spoken)]
But there is no-one... no-one in all of Berlin who is
more deserving.
If I could, I would fill your entire room with pineapples!
A pineapples
For you,
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
From you.
[BOTH (with Emcee)]
Ah...
Ah...
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER (spoken)]
I think I will lie down for a few moments. My head is
spinning!
[SCHULTZ]
Fraulein Schneider... good evening.
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Good evening, Herr Schultz.
(Opens her bedroom door, turns to Schultz.)
I am... overwhelmed!
[EMCEE]
And now, meine Damen und Herren... Mesdames et
Messieurs... Ladies and Gentlemen- The Kit Kat Klub
is proud to present a most talented young lady from
England. Yes- England! I give you- and don't forget
to give her back when you're finished with her- the
toast of Mayfair... Fraulein Sally Bowles!!
[SALLY]
Mama
Thinks I'm living in a convent,
A secluded little convent
In the southern part of France.
Mama
Doesn't even have an inkling
That I'm working in a Nightclub
In a pair of Lacy pants.
So please, sir.
If you run into my Mama,
Don't reveal my indiscretion,
Give a working girl a chance.
Hush up,
Don't tell Mama,
Shush up,
Don't tell Mama...
Don't tell Mama,
Whatever you do.
If you had a secret,
You bet I would keep it.
I would never tell on you.
I'm breaking every promise
That I gave her,
So won't you kindly do a girl
A great big favor?
And please, my sweet patater,
Keep this from the Mater,
Though my dance
Is not against the law.
You can tell my Papa, that's all right,
'Cause he comes in here every night,
But don't tell Mama what you saw!
[ALL]
Mama
Thinks I'm on a tour of Europe,
With a couple of my school chums
And a lady chaperone.
Mama
Doesn't even have an inling
That I left them all in Antwerp
And I'm touring on my own.
So please, Sir
If you run into my Mama
Don't reveal my indiscretion.
[SALLY]
Just leave well enough alone.
Hush up,
[ALL]
Don't tell Mama.
[SALLY]
Shush up,
[ALL]
Don't tell Mama;
Don't tell Mama
Whatever you do.
[SALLY]
If you had a secret,
You bet I would keep it.
[ALL]
I would never tell on you.
You wouldn't want to get me
In a pickle,
[SALLY]
And have her go and cut me off
Without a nickle.
[ALL]
So let's trust one another,
Keep this from my mother,
Though I'm still as pure as mountain snow.
[SALLY]
You can tell my Uncle
Here and now
'Cause he's my agent anyhow,
[KIT KAT GIRLS]
But don't tell Mama what you know.
[SALLY]
You can tell my brother,
That ain't grim
'Cause if her squeals on me
I'll squeal on him,
[ALL]
But don't tell Mama, bitte
Don't tell Mama, please, Sir.
Don't tell Mama, what you know.
[GIRLS]
Sssh!
Sssh!
[SALLY]
If you see my, Mummy,
Wedding bells as heard from a bus
Clanging bells, they ring for the two of us
When they're through with us
Up in the sky, threatening cloud drifts by
Eloped so soon, hope there's no typhoon
On our honeymoon
Kids casting stones wave to the ship
With a moan and a shudder, we're fast on our trip
What future awaits, we're ready to brave
Whatever our fate from here to the grave
The ocean, once azure, is quite blacker than before
And we are far from any shore
The cries of the gulls make a lullabye
Day comes too soon
As the salmon swim upstream, reddened with decay
To die there in their birthplace, so will I change
As the stream becomes inert and the wildflowers fade
As the forest turns to desert, so will I change
When the devil appeared, I locked him in a box
Sure if it opened, that he would eat me up
Oh, how I feared at what my fate might be
I couldn't see, locked in that box, that love held the key
Strands disentwine, and realign, an egg divides, cells multiply
And so I'm told that I was born of halves, and I then so remained
Halves reunite a single slave
The mind a lorn enclave both hateful and attrite,
the body turned a grave of muddy appetites
If the truth is an open mind, love is an open heart
Love cannot be unkind, love is blind
The mind is a deathcamp apart from love so divine
Love in its own time, love has its own designs
The mingling of two souls in transformation, encoded in this chain
Through all transfiguration, all essence must remain, all is changelessly in change
Come out, the winter's over, come out into the day
Come out, the winter's over, no season ever stays
All is changelessly in change
If the truth is an open mind, love is an open heart
Love cannot be unkind, love is blind
The mind is a deathcamp apart, from the love of an open heart
Love in its own time, love is divine, love has its own designs
Love is changelessly in change
The flesh is weak, it goes one way
For these weeks of winter days, this cold won't go away
Through the young and carefree years, danger always was there near
As your will dissolves in tears of fear
Time will show what is threshed
Also sown, like a thrush, time has flown
If there's another world who knows
Past these Cadillacs in rows
Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved
And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought
For life is full of tears, and like a shot
It's soon over dear, but love is not
What a nightmare to be young, as the first rays
of awareness, like the sun, burn the fog away
Life brings death, but smile, and draw another breath
And when the disco dance is done
And last night's fun looks sick in the sun
And you don't know what's begun
Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved
And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought
For life is full of tears, and like a shot
It's soon over dear
Love's not enough to make the waves less rough
But like blood, a little goes a long way
In the darkness of uncertain days
It hurts to love someone this way
Though we seek to know its stay
Pride had Faith on the road, then they walked for awhile
'Til they sussed Hope and Lust, who winked at Faith and smiled
Though Lust Faith had always hated, Pride held Hope and soon was sated
So Gluttony and Sloth were born of Faith and Hope's desire
In the froth of Pride their sire
The barbarity is Charity is wet nurse to both
In prosperity a verity loathed
As we search and search, but do not find
Some kind of heaven, seven
When the seventh surgeon kissed her and enhanced her
Then my well-missed sister was burgeoning with cancer
The transcendentalist had shown her the answer
You're never alone when you're a topless dancer
As inside we fight what we hide from sight
All is equable in God's own eyes
Seven wrong and seven right
Wrath came upon Fortitude in the flowers
Prudence spied from the path, while Fortitude coaxed and mewed for hours
Then to Temperance his wife's dismay
Wrath quaffed Greed and Envy's cunning offering of a cocktail tray
Now Wrath subdued Envy with Greed raped Fortitude
'Til Justice descended her tower and spoke
She Wrath awoke and held Wrath's coat while Wrath slit both their throats
Seven sisters smoking marijuana, mexicana
In their Duenna's absence, listening to Madonna
With their pasha distant, subsistent on bananas
Ever glister in their visitless zenana
Seven days and seven nights, seven brothers, seven kites
Flown on seven testing flights, seven days the sun shone bright
Seven nights by candlelight
May you smile upon this band
May your miles beguile the land
Cross every dial and band
When I was young, I lay in bed
And hummed a song, and shook my head
As I grew old, the world was cold
The radio was my only friend
In the California night, there is a chopper overhead
Like a deer caught in the light, I can't help but look ahead
And I'm wondering when it's going to stop
And I'm hoping I won't burn up
A drop in the ocean
How you turn me on but I won't belong
Come on, turn me on, I'm playing your favorite song
Police are everywhere, they keep it peaceful there
For bankers in cars, it's lonely as Mars
They're buying the air, they're making the stars shine bright
Like a deer caught in the light, I can't help but look ahead
Like a hummingbird in flight, I'm going nowhere, as I beat with all my might
The radio
What is developed, enveloped in the dark
And is stopped at the very start?
What does light create, like the sight of a star
That eminates from afar?
A deb at a dance in an old portrait
Now for romance, it's a little late
But there in her swoon it's a sliver too soon
To shoot the silvery moon
chorus- Here's the record, just as another
The past is over, over and over
Here's the record, the same as any other
Until it's over, over and over
It's a rain-stricken Sunday, all the shutters are closed
I'm striking a nautral pose
A compsite formed of opposites shows
Undeveloped, overexposed
Adelina Patti to deathlessness destined
But one so unrefined
Her image is fixed, breathlessly declined
The flash is upon you
The light it astounds you
Now darkness surrounds you, it's the same in sound
Unsafe, unsound
Chorus
The past is over, hold your lover
Late at night a lone car passing
Made me feel that all was right
As it sped on pavement glistening
With reflected Christmas lights
I, enchanted, watched you sleeping
Imagined you happy, and made the covers right
On Boxing Day, I lay there weeping
As you were on your flight
Now you pour the wine for all the pretty boys in line
I won't be yours, you won't be mine
My once upon a valentine
You made use of me
Till you made up your mind
It seemed you couldn't stop yourself
From treating me so unkind
But I threw the first stone
So I know you had a reason
And you left me alone in the suicide season
Now you pour the wine for all the pretty boys in line
I won't be yours, you won't be mine
My once upon a valentine
Late at night a lone car passing
Makes me feel that all is right
As it speeds on pavement glistening
With springtime showers, they're making the flowers come out
I, enchanted, watch her sleeping
Imagine you weeping, and hope I'm right
And I feel so fine, it's better without you
I'm happy without you tonight
I gave you all the love I had
And held on tight to end up sad
And if this love I now abhor
Life is a luxury, you can't buy it, with deeds so noble or words so pious
United Nations meet no defiance, genocide applied is the favorite science
A science enticed by financial calculations of the tired empire who's dire machinations
Are fired by the pyre of its satellite nations
Holocaust is the cost of man's imagination
Now the world is automatomic, now the braid of life is untied
Like the wondrous antibiotic that kills all culture, omnicide
One might just as well ask why every living thing must die
As to ask why some must live in poverty and strife
Struggling like a lizard wriggling on a knife
Until the soul shrugs off the shackles of this life, some have dollars, and others squalor
All are one side, omnicide
Ballet is beautiful, it proves we are not animals
But art is seen as high in stature when it perfectly mimes nature
Nature we must dominate, thus we destroy, thus we create
Black, white, arab, jew, one king is calling you
One king that you must serve, one master rules the world
Until the soul shrugs off the shackles of this like, soothe your dollar, chase your dollar
Now we are allied, omnicide
There was a time when all the world was disunited
Now we are allied
The words come from on high, elsewhere chasing butterflies
Say goodbye, all must die
In these hours of leisure, memories of pleasure
* Women asked how many times I practiced promiscuity
That depends...before or after I hit puberty?
I was six watchin hoes slob
The dough mom gave the babysitter also covered the blow job
Older cousin's tongue bathed the balls
I confess, I was molested at seven. No complaints at all
And if I did complain, it's when she'd give me brain
And teeth scrape my dick like a dog playing frisbee games
When I pay for snatch, I'll eat a cat's bleedin
And keep the reciepts as a write off for tax season
I'll take your slore home,
let her pick her favorite thong,
play DJ and have her suck me off to her favorite song
Make sure the handycam is on
Fuck a threesome, I'm takin you, your mom, your niece and your granny on
And any other family member with tits and a cunt
Whip my dick out at the reunion like..."Is this what you want?"
cuz..
If it's a dick you want, I got inches
If it's a chick you want, I got bitches
Whether lesbian, or the best of friends
you can spread your legs open and let me it
What's a nice girl like you doin suckin my cock?
Or gettin pulled over for speedin and fuckin a cop?
Whether you loved it or not, you still did it to get out of a ticket
Now suck my dick before I beat the shit outta you with it
Want a milkshake? Suck the shit out and you'll get it
Six four and I'll fuck the shit out of a midget
Lived out most men's dreams when I was seventeen
Been through more shit than most porn stars ever seen
I'm not sure which bitch to bone next
I got AT&T; operators callin me for phone sex
I'll make you get wet, cum til you smile and moan
And once I bust a nut all you'll hear is a dial tone
Imagine me givin one shit about a dumb bitch
Coulda wrote a book titled 'One Million and One Clits'
To which of you bitches am I givin it to?
When they get to know me first I'm diggin you...now
let me stick my dick in you
repeat chorus x's 2
In the middle of the night,
pillow fight,
with a widow and a dyke
Dress up as the ex-husband with the widow on the right
To my left is the dyke,
as I bite on the nipple of her tit,
pushed the widow's head to nibble on her clit
Tape it and sell it off the net
For a bitch mad I did it without consent, you're awfully wet
Got hoes suspicious. Even one peg leg bitches
After I came, fucked em with they own leg
They ain't know the difference
Your cunt's wet and your pants are soaked with it
I don't discriminate, even cancer hoes get it
So open up, I'ma cram your throat with it
I want you to suck just like the antedote's in it
All you strong women claimin queen to the universe,
I'll fill you with Kahlua and cream on your newest skirt
So the moral of the story
* When the mic is near me, you've got every right to fear me
So ahead of my time not even a psychic hears me
When his hand drops my brain unlocks
And you're dodgin this insane assault, I wouldn't entertain the thought
Battle scars I'll leave you stuck with it
My style's like a pussy with AIDS, you don't wanna fuck with it
Non believers who won't accept we're the hottest, sleep on us
And wake up in flamed tore up pajamas
Your thought's weak, move on,
I change your heartbeat from twelve BPMs to the speed of a Luke song
If you even puke wrong your career's sold I'm too strong
I can hold Jupiter with my earlobes
I'll pull out some shit I wrote when I was seventeen
it's so ?impious? to shit you wrote a week ago
I'm timeless, priceless; you rhymeless, micless
Bottom line I'm the nicest
My I.Q. doubles when in times of crisis
And my mind's as sharp as this razor you bout to get sliced with
All day during eternity. Always
"Copywrite seven eight" will echo through hells hallways
(hook x's 2)
I came seven light years before the dark ages
With eight different infinite ways to spark stages
Got a nine man crew that controls the reign
And the soul of every listener that knows my name
I posess what you stupid motherfuckers need to get
If it ain't Megahertz or Weathermen it's a piece of shit
The mic's the worst solution to even this
Cuz you'll go through twice the persecution Jesus did
I'll step on stage with a black cape with a wack rhyme
about your fat date
And how I met your mommy on the chat line
This fool Nelson will put you in a full nelson
Leave you layin face down in your stool yelpin
A thousand of your fans ready to kill me
And tell the sound man if he wants to jump in he can feel free
Instead of threats in your face I sprayed your ass to hell
Blast myself and resurrected a day later
So drop the mic this instant
Pocketknife to the throats of those that commit
Copywrite infringement
A sick twisted vengeance. I keep crackin on opponents
And sleep on more wrappers than the homeless
Deliver constant misery. I don't spit positivity
I spit on positivity and send fakes to a grim fate
Labels can drop me. I don't give a shit, I'm in it to vent hate
If they're dumb enough to sign me, great
Got a list of a hundred things I hate
And you're number one through ninety eight
If you hear an R&B; bitch singing on my tape it's cuz
she got a gallon of my semen clingin to her face
(hook x's2)
There's two type of emcees
Those that wanna face me get hacked and fail
And those that have faced me can await a rematch in hell
My vocal tones pipe bomb your face in
Hold your own? You have trouble holding conversations
You're left with little to no air
Duct tape your mouth
Leave you upside down in the middle of nowhere
Shine like rays of sun. My brain's a gun
What you're tryin to say in six bars I can explain in one
It's obvious my skull weighs a ton
Over a billion gigabytes I download information from
I'll pelt you clowns. Ugly as fuck plus timid
Then melt you down and reconstruct y'all in my image
I ain't spittin if the track ain't hard hittin
I don't care if Premier, Mu Tao or Mozart did it
I'm deep with a fistful of satire
It's this type of trajectory that makes heat seeking missles backfire
I show love to troops that I bomb
By givin hugs to crews with nuclear arms
I'm like Chuck Manson on tape
My choruses are me givin my victims a chance to escape
The raw phantom without a champion jaw is here to scar
your soft patterns with adamantium claws
My mic will make your nerves ache
Me comin off ain't the issue
I wasn't screwed on right in the first place
* RJD2 drop that shit so I can drop my thoughts
Driftin away, and depress all within listening range
Nah but for real I got so much shit on my mind
From fake motherfuckers to my future I'm trying to get in line
And doing hip hop in this life in time ain't all nice and fine
At times I feel like my whole life's a rhyme
Full of punchlines and jokes
Fuck ups and punches
It's like I can't get shit right the first time or something
When no one knows your name, your vinyl's still in stores
Once you get a little light through arguing over who feels it more
We got sixteen year old dead heads buying garbage
Wanting to keep you from their personal private artists
We don't do shit for the clubs
It's for our forty fives,
go RJ the archaeologist diggin them up
And I'm the same cent,
To vinyl that gets sent to bash
* If such a thing exists as being such a king as this
Sluts pucker up, to kiss the ring and fist
The rhyming vet, the livest yet
drop fly shit like a G-4 private jet
Bet you get more than grazed by the nine
Layed by the side
Oh you out of bullets? Here, take some of mine
And clowns hate how I lock this down
If they think I'm obnoxious now, wait til I pop Cristal
Got one need, to just smoke out
but if your weed's got one seed, the shit don't count
Dog, you don't want us running home.
You don't want it Holmes. If you a 'G'
You as silent as the one in front of Gnome
And you can love me, or you can judge me
But dissin me's like, Beetlejuice in a cape, Super Ugly
Trust me, I'ma shit on my foes
And sit on my throne
So hop off my dick and get on your own
(hook x's 2)
O-H-I-O, no place like home
Everywhere I go, I relocate my throne
Roll it up. Light it up. Fire it up
Bring a bitch to the telly and get high as fuck
Schatz got me upchuckin in a cut buzzin
Might spit about the same shit, but then again
Who the fuck doesn't?!?!
When writers fed, bite his lead, or we can fight instead
And fuck a can, we open whoop ass by the keg
Tell your boys to get your lame crest on
Wanna rip together? Y'all can share the same headstone
And it's rarely ever that I bury pairs together
But I'm ruthless.
I did it with ease like Jerry Heller
So if you mention me,
you fairies better levitate or jump a fence from me
Seven eight's a heavyweight, like pregnancy
And you can die in a coupe with dark tint
COPY! Shoot the sky til the moon is dark red
STOP ME! You could try, but I move at mach 10
WATCH ME! Superfly from the booth like Clark Kent
COPY! Doctor Strange when I'm on the ???
The vets I roll with will put your dogs to sleep
Puff five blunts straight to the brain
Jakki's got one five one through a pump straight to the vein
Sights a bit wrecked.
I ain't even light the spliff yet
and already my eyes are bloodshot like a crips set
(hook x's 2)
Y'all cats ain't never gonna advance, I'm big headed
Got an even bigger ego for the one in my pants
Lames hurtin.
I aim perfect for opponent's heads
Still in charge like a cordless phone is dead
Only writin four bar verses now. REASON??
Can't get past the fifth line without the crowd screamin
Y'all don't rhyme, y'all bitch. Dick in mouth even
Only time y'all spit's when you spittin out semen
Hope you're ready bastards,
my prose already classic
And like laffy taffy I got a joke on every rapper
You hold your own? NO YOU DON'T
I'll let you shit first, when I start shittin the toilet overflows
And I ain't quittin six four, dyin hittin chicks raw
In the Hyatt on the fifth floor with her hymen splittin
So bet the money you got MY ALBUM'S LIKE HELL!
You don't know when it's comin but you know it's gonna be hot
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
I can see lights
I can feel love
I can see the sun
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
I can see lights
I can feel love
I can see the sun
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful world
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful life
I just want...
I just want...
I just want...
I just want to be like you...
I don't care what people say...
I just want to be myself...
They can save 'em, those wonderful words you just don't
understand.
I can show you the way, but I know that you''ll never be
there.
All the time, all the shine of your eyes, I will never
forget.
All I know there is no time, there is no life, there is
no turning back.
