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The need to express

To communicate

To going against the grain

Going insane

- La vie bohme

- Going mad

- La vie bohme

- 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 bohme

La vie bohme

- Is the equipment in a pyramid?

- It is, Maureen

The mixer doesn't have a case

Don't give me that face

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

- And 13 orders of fries, is that it here?

- Wine and beer

To handcrafted beers

Made in local breweries

To yoga

To yogurt

To rice and beans and cheese

To leather

To d*ldos

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 bohme

And wipe the speakers off

Before you pack

- Yes, Maureen

- Well, hurry back

- 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

Vclav Havel

The Sex Pistols

To no shame

Never playin' the fame game

- To marijuana

- To sodomy

It's between God and me

To S & M

Waiter, waiter, waiter.

La vie bohme

In honor of the death of bohemia...

...an impromptu salon will commence

immediately following dinner.

Mimi Marquez,

clad only in bubblewrap...

...will perform her famous

lawn-chair handcuff dance...

...to the sounds of iced tea

being stirred.

And Mark Cohen will preview

his new documentary...

...about his inability to hold an erection

on the High Holy Days.

Maureen Johnson,

back from her spectacular...

...one-night engagement

at the 11th Street lot...

...will sing native American

tribal chants backwards...

...through her vocoder, accompanying

herself on electric cello.

Which she has never studied.

Your new boyfriend

Doesn't know about us

- There's nothing to know

- Don't you think we should discuss?

- It was three months ago

- He doesn't act like he's with you

- We're taking it slow

- Where is he now?

He's right-

Where'd he go?

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 anarchist...

...including his successful

reprogramming...

...of the MIT virtual-reality

equipment to self-destruct...

...as it broadcasts the words:

Actual reality. ACT UP. Fight AIDS.

Excuse me

Did I do somethin' wrong?

I get invited, then ignored

All night long

I've been tryin'

I'm not lyin'

No one's perfect

I've got baggage

Life's too short, babe

Time is flyin'

I'm lookin' for baggage

That goes with mine

- I should tell you

- I've got baggage too

- Should tell you-

- Baggage

Wine and beer

AZT break.

You?

Me

You?

Mimi

I should tell you

I'm disaster

I forget how to begin it

Let's just make this part go faster

I have yet to be in it

I should tell you

I should tell you

I should tell you

I should tell you

I should tell I blew the candle out

Just to get back in

I'd forgotten how to smile

Until your candle burned my skin

I should tell you

I should tell you

I should tell you

- I should tell

- I should tell

- Well, here we go

- Well, here we go

- Now we

- Now we

Oh, no

I know this something is

- Here goes

- Here goes

Guess so, it's starting to

- Who knows?

- Who knows?

- Who knows where?

- Who knows where?

- Who goes there?

- Who goes there?

- Who knows?

- Who knows?

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Trusting desire

- Trusting desire

- Starting to learn

- Starting to learn

- Walking through fire

- Walking through fire

- Without a burn

- Without a burn

- Clinging a shoulder

- Clinging a shoulder

- A leap begins

- A leap begins

- Stinging and older

- Stinging and older

- Asleep on pins

- Asleep on pins

- So here we go

- So here we go

- Now we

- Now we

Oh, no

- I know

- Oh, no

- Who knows where?

- Who knows where?

- Who goes there?

- Who goes there?

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

- Here goes

Are we packed?

Yes, and by next week,

I want you to be.

Pookie-

And you should see

They've padlocked your building

And they're rioting on Avenue B

- Benny called the cops.

- That f***.

They don't know what they're doing

The cops are sweeping the lot

But no one's leaving.

They're just sitting there mooing.

- To dance

- No way to make a living

Masochism, pain, perfection

Muscle spasms, chiropractors

Short careers, eating disorders

- Film

- Adventure, tedium

No family, boring locations

Darkrooms

Perfect faces, egos, money

Hollywood and sleaze

- Music

- Food of love, emotion

Mathematics, isolation

Rhythm, power

Feeling, harmony

And heavy competition

- Anarchy

- Revolution, justice

Screaming for solutions

Forcing changes, risk and danger

Making noise and making pleas

To faggots, lezzies, dykes

Cross-dressers too

- To me

- To me

To you and you and you

You and you

To people living with

Living with, living with

Not dying from disease

Let he among us without sin

Be the first to condemn

La vie bohme

La vie bohme

- La vie bohme

- Anyone out of the mainstream

- La vie bohme

- Is anyone in the mainstream?

- La vie bohme

- Anyone alive with a sex drive

- La vie bohme

- Tear down the wall

Aren't we all?

The opposite of war isn't peace

It's creation

La vie bohme

The riot continues.

The Christmas tree goes up in flames.

The snow dances.

Oblivious, Mimi and Roger

share a small, lovely kiss.

Viva la vie bohme!

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

Five hundred twenty-five thousand

Six hundred minutes

How do you measure

A year in the life?

How about love?

How about love?

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