SEASONS OF LOVE

ALL
five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
525,600 moments so dear
525,600 how do you measure measure a year?

In daylights in sunsets
In midnights in cups of coffee
In inches in miles
In laughter and strife
In 525,600 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

JOANNE
525,600 minutes
525,600 journeys to plan
525,600 how do you measure the life of a woman or a man

COLLINS
In truth that she learned
Or in times that she cried
In bridges he burned
Or the way that she died

ALL
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’ve got to, you’ve got to remember the love)
Remember the love (You know that love 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
Measure your life, measure life in love
 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
We're hungry and frozen

ROGER
Some life that we've chosen

BEGGE
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

COLLINS
''Hei, gjett hvem som er tilbake i by'n ...''

ROGER OG MARK
(i det MARK griper røret)
''Collins!''

COLLINS
''Jeg står nede, hiv ned nøkkelen''

(MARK trekker frem en liten lærpung og lar den falle ned fra forscenen, som om han slapp den ut
av et vindu. Samtidig faller en lærpung ned ''ovenfra'' som COLLINS tar i mot.)

(TO KJELTRINGER med hvert sitt balltre dukker opp. De har tydeligvis til hensikt å overfalle ham.
KJELTRINGENE mimer at de slår og sparker COLLINS. COLLINS faller i bakken mens lyset på
ham dempes.)

ROGER
How do you start a fire
When there's nothing to burn and
It feels like somethings stuck in your flue?

MARK
How can you generate heat
 When you can't feel your feet

BEGGE
And they're turning blue?

MARK
You light up a mean blaze

ROGER
With posters

MARK
And screenplays

BEGGE
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

COLLINS
How do you stay on your feet when on every street
It's trick or treat and tonight its trick
Welcome back to town
Oh I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh-oh I feel sick

MARK
Where is he?

COLLINS
Getting dizzy

BEGGE
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

MARK
The music ignites the night with passion and fire

ROGER
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit

MARK
Zoom in as they burn the past to ground

BEGGE
And feel the heat as the future's flow
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

ALLE
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

ALLE
When they act tough you call their 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
Cause everything is
Rent
 YOU'LL SEE

ROGER
What happened to Benny
What happened to his heart
And the ideals he once pursued?

BENNY
The owner of that lot next door
Has a right to do with it as he pleases

COLLINS
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
(sies) If you do me one small favor

MARK
What?

BENNY
Convince Maureen to cancel her protest
 MARK
Why not just get an injunction or call the cops

BENNY
Yeah I did, and they're on stand by
(synges igjen herfra)
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
 ONE SONG GLORY

ROGER
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 the song that reigns 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
Time dies
 LIGHT MY CANDLE

ROGER
What'd you forget?

MIMI
Got a light?

ROGER
I know you? You're
You're shivering

MIMI
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?

ROGER
Nothing
Your hair in the moonlight
You look familiar
Can you make it?

MIMI
Just haven't eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning.
Anyway. What?

ROGER
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of

MIMI
I always remind people of who is she?

ROGER
She died. Her name was April

MIMI
It's out again
Sorry about your friend
Would you light my candle?

ROGER
 Well

MI
Yeah. Ow!

ROGER
Oh, the wax it's

MIMI
It's dripping! I like it between my

ROGER
Fingers. I figured...
Oh, well. Goodnight.

It blew out again?

MIMI
No I think that I dropped my stash

ROGER
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your candle's out

MIMI

I'm illin'
I had it when I walked in the door
It was pure
Is it on the floor?

ROGER
The floor?

MIMI
They say I have the best ass below 14th street
Is it true?

ROGER
What?

MIMI
You're staring again.
ROGER
Oh no.
I mean you do have a nice
I mean You look familiar

MIMI
Like your dead girlfriend?
 ROGER
Only when you smile.
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else

MIMI
Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club?
That's where I work I dance

ROGER
Yes!
They used to tie you up

MIMI
It's a living

ROGER
I didn't recognize you
Without the handcuffs

MIMI
We could light the candle
Oh won't you light the candle?

ROGER
Why don't you forget that stuff
You look like you're sixteen

MIMI
I'm nineteen but I'm old for my age
I'm just born to be bad

ROGER
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver like that

MIMI
I have no heat I told you
ROGER
I used to sweat

MIMI
I got a cold

ROGER
Uh huh
I used to be a junkie

MIMI
But now and then I like to

ROGER
 Uh huh

MIMI
Feel good

ROGER
Here it um

MIMI
What's that?

ROGER
It's a candy bar wrapper

MIMI
We could light the candle
What'd you do with my candle?

ROGER
That was my last match

MIMI
Our eyes'll adjust, thank God for the moon

ROGER
Maybe it's not the moon at all
I hear Spike Lee's shooting down the street

MIMI
Bah humbug... Bah humbug

ROGER
Cold hands

MIMI
Yours too.
Big. Like my father's
Do you wanna dance?

ROGER
With you?

MIMI
No with my father

ROGER
I'm Roger

MIMI
They call me
They call me Mimi
 COLLINS
Gentlemen, our benefactor on this Christmas day
Whose integrity is only matched by talent I must say
A new member of theAlphabet City avant-garde
Angel Dumott Schunard

ANGEL
Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

Today 4 U
Tomorrow for me

COLLINS
And you should hear her beat

MARK
You earned this on the street?

ANGEL
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 neighbors yappy dog disappear"
"This Akita, Evita just won't shut up
I believe if you play nonstop that pup
Will breathe is 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 wounds
And got him back on his feet
Sing it!
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
I said Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me
Today 4 U
Tomorrow 4 me!
 TANGO MAUREEN

JOANNE
The samples won’t delay but the cable-

MARK
There’s another way
Say something anything

JOANNE
Test 1,2,3

MARK
Anything but that

JOANNE
This is weird

MARK
It’s weird

JOANNE
Very weird

MARK
Fucking weird

JOANNE
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

MARK
Feel like going insane
Got a fire in your brain
And you’re thinking of drinking gasoline

JOANN
As a matter of fact

MARK
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)
Your 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
 JOANNE
I think I know what you mean

BOTH
The Tango: Maureen

MARK
Has she ever pouted her lips and called you “Pookie?”

JOANNE
Never

MARK
Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?

JOANNE
This is spooky

JOANNE
Did you swoon when she walked through the door?

MARK
Every time, so be....cautious

JOANNE
Did she moon over other boys?

MARK
More than moon

JOANNE
I’m getting nauseous

MARK
Where’d you learn to tango?
JOANNE
With the French ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Ms. Porters
And you?

MARK
With Nanette Himmelfarb, the rabbi’s daughter at the Scarsdale Jewish community center
It’s hard to do this backwards

JOANNE
You should try it in heels

JOANNE
She cheated

MARK
She cheated
 JOANNE
Maureen cheated

MARK
Fucking cheated

JOANNE
I’m defeated, I should give up right now

MARK
Gotta look on the bright side with all of your might

JOANNE
I’d fall for her still anyhow

BEGGE
When you’re dancing her dance
You don’t stand a chance
Her grip of romance makes you fall

MARK
So you think might as well

JOANNE
Dance a tango to hell

BEGGE
At least I’ll have tangoed at all

BEGGE
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 your glum and you bum and turn blue

MARK
Why do we love when she’s mean

JOANNE
And she can be so obscene
My Maureen

BEGGE
The Tango: Maureen
 OUT TONIGHT

MIMI
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’ve learned the game
Get up life's too quick
I know someplace sick
Where this chick will 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 Years day
Take me out tonight

Meow
Ha!
Mmmmmm oh yeah yeah yeah

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 were 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
Uh huh I have to go
Na na nana out tonight
Uh ah uh uh ow!
Youre 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
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
 ANOTHER DAY (LOFTET)

ROGER
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 is 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, 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

MIMI
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

Theres only us
Theres only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road no other way
No day but today

ROGER
Excuse me if I'm off track
But if your so wise
Then tell me why do you need smack
Take you needle
Take your fancy prayer
Don’t forget get the moonlight out of you hair
Long ago you might’ve lit up my heart
 But the fires dead and 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

MIMI
Theres only us
Only tonight
We must let go
To know whats right
No other course
No other way
No day but today

ALLE
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 (Who do you think you are)
There's only here
Give into love (Barging in on me)
Or live in fear (And my guitar)
No other past (Little girl hey)
No other way (The door is that way)

No day but today

The fires 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
No day but today
 I'LL COVER YOU

ANGEL
Live in my house I’ll be your shelter
Just pay me back with one thousand kisses
Be my lover I’ll cover you

COLLINS
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

BEGGE
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 be my life

COLLINS
Just slip me on
I’ll be your blanket
Wherever, whatever I’ll be your coat

ANGEL
You’ll be my king and I’ll be your castle

COLLINS
No you be my queen and I’ll be your moat

BEGGE
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
When you’re cold and you’re lonely (I’ll cover you)
With a thousand sweet kisses
You’ve got one nickel only (I’ll cover you)
With a thousand sweet kisses
When your worn out and tired (I’ll cover you)
With a thousand sweet kisses
When you heart has expired

Oh lover
I’ll cover you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh lover I’ll cover you
 ANGEL
Who died?

BENNY
Our Akita

ALLE
Evita

BENNY
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

MARK
Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes (Dies irae - dies illa)
Here she lies (Kyrie eleison)
No one knew her worth (Yitgadal v'yitkadash)
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

ALLE
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme

MARK
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 pretention
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!!

ALLE
La vie Boheme, La vie Boheme

MR. GREY
Ahhemm

MAUREEN
Hey Mister - she's my sister

KELNER
So that's five miso soup
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner
Two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls

ROGER
Eww

COLLINS
It tastes the same

MIMI
If you close your eyes

KELNER
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?

[All]
Wine and beer!

[Mimi & Angel]

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

MAUREEN OG COLLINS
Emotion
Devotion
To causing a commotion
Creation
Vacation

MARK
Mucho masturbation

MARK AND COLLINS

Compassion
To fashion
To passion when it's new

COLLINS
To Sontag

ANGEL
To Sondheim

JENTER
To anything taboo

COLLINS OG ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan
Cunnigham and Cage

COLLINS
Lenny Bruce

ROGER
Langston Hughes

MAUREEN
To the stage

ALLE
To Uta
To Buddha
Pablo Neruda, too

MARK OG MIMI
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em
 ALLE
La Vie Boheme

MR. GREY
Sisters?

MAUREEN OG JOANNE
We're close

ANGEL OG COLLINS
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI

Bisexuals
Trisexuals
Homo-sapiens
Carcinogens
Hallucinogens
Men
Pee Wee Herman
German wine
Turpentine
Gertrude Stein
Antonioni
Bertolucci
Kurosawa
Carmina Burana

ALLE
To apathy
To entropy
To empathy
Ecstacy
Vaclav Havel
The Sex Pistols
8BC
To no shame
Never playing the Fame Game

COLLINS
To marijuana

ALLE
To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M!

BENNY
Waiter, Waiter, Waiter ... Waiter!

ALLE
La Vie Boheme
 COLLINS
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

ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
About his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days

MARK
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

(Roger plays a solo)

That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz!"

COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub

[Angel]
And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist
Including the tale of the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T
Virtual reality equipment to self-destruct, as it broadcasts the words:

ALLE
"Actual reality -Act Up- Fight AIDS"

MIMI
Excuse me
Did I do something wrong?
I get invited
Then ignored all night long

ROGER
I've been trying
I'm not lying
No one's perfect
I've got baggage
 MIMI
Life's too short, babe, time is flying
I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine

ROGER
I should tell you

MIMI
I got baggage too

ROGER
I should tell you

ROGER
Baggage

ALLE
Wine and beer!

MIMI
AZT break

ROGER
You?

MIMI
Me. You?

ROGER
Mimi
 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

BEGGE
I should tell
Well here we go
Now we

MIMI
Oh no

ROGER
I know
There's something is
Here it goes
 MIMI
Here it goes

ROGER
Guess so its starting to
Who knows

MIMI
Who knows

BEGGE
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who knows
Here it 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

BEGGE
Who knows where
Who goes there
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
Here goes
 LA VIE BOHEME B

ALLE
To dance!

MIMI
No way to make a living
Masochism, pain, perfection
Muscle spasms, chiropractors
Short careers, eating disorders

ALLE
Film!

MARK
Adventure tedium
No family, boring locations, dark room perfect faces
Egos, money, Hollywood and sleaze

ALLE
Music!

ANGEL
Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation
Rhythm, power, feeling harmony
And heavy competition

ALLE
Anarchy!

MAUREEN OG COLLINS
Revolution
Justice screaming for solutions
Forcing changes risking danger, making noise and making pleas

ALLE
To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too
To me, 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 boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme

MARK
Anyone out of the mainstream? (La Vie Boheme)
Is anyone in the mainstream? (La Vie Boheme)
Anyone alive with a sex drive? (La Vie Boheme)
Tear down the wall (La Vie Boheme)
 Aren’t we all?
The opposite of war isn’t peace
Its creation!

Wooo!
Viva La Vie Boheme
 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

ROGER
The world revives—

MIMI
Colors renew—

BEGGE
But I know blue, only blue, lonely blue, within me blue

MIMI
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

BEGGE
The mind churns! (The mind churns!)
The heart yearns! (The heart yearns!)

The tears dry

Without you
Life goes on
But I’m gone
Cause I die
Without you

MIMI
Without you

ROGER
Without you

BEGGE
Without you
 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

ROGER
The world revives
MIMI (Colors renew)
But I know blue, only blue
Lonely blue
MIMI (Within me blue)
Without you
 (Angel bæres ut i laken av Collins. Legges så ned, er tydelig i smerter)

ROGER
Without you
The hand gropes
The ear hears
The pulse beats
Without you
The eyes gaze
The legs walks
The lungs breathe
The mind churns
MIMI (The mind churns)
The heart yearns
MIMI (The heart yearns)
BEGGE
The tears dry without you
Life goes on but I'm gone
'Cause I die without you
(Maureen går bort til en sittende Joanne, legger hendene på skuldrene hennes og kysser henne)
Without you
(Collins rister febrilsk i nå døde Angel)
Without you
(Mimi kaster seg inn i armene til Roger)
Without you
 COLLINS
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
Oh

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
Yeah

JOANNE
So with a thousand sweet kisses (I'll Cover you) (525,600 minutes)

COLLINS
If you’re cold and you're lonely

JOANNE
With a thousand sweet kisses (I’ll cover you) (525,600 moments so dear)

COLLINS
You’ve got one nickel only

JOANNE
With a thousand sweet kisses (525,600 minutes)

COLLINS
When you worn out and you’re tired

JOANNE
With a thousand sweet kisses (I’ll cover you) (525,000)
 COLLINS
When your heart has expired

ALLE
Ooohh
Lover
I’ll cover you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahhhhhh
Ooohhh lover
I’ll cover you (525,600 minutes)
(525,000 seasons of love)

COLLINS
I’ll cover you
 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 yuppy 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 (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 (calm down)
She never admit I existed (everyone please)

MIMI
He was the same way it was always
Run away, hit the road, don’t commit, your full of shit (Mimi)

JOANNE
She’s in denial

MIMI
He’s in denial

JOANNE
Didn’t give an inch when I gave a mile

MIMI
I gave a mile

ROGER
Gave a mile to who?

MARK OG BENNY
C’mon guys, chill
 JOANNE OG MIMI
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 loves not a three way street
You’ll never share real love until you love yourself
I should know

COLLINS
You all said you’d be cool today
So please for my sake
I can’t believe he’s gone
And I can’t believe you’re going
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

MARK
I hear, there are great restaurants out West

ROGER
Some of the best, how could she?

MARK
How could you let her go? You just don't know

ROGER
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?
A friend but 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]
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, Mimi still loves you

MARK
Are you really jealous
Or afraid that Mimi's weak?

ROGER
Mimi did look pale

MARK
Mimi's gotten thin
Mimi's running out of time
And you're running out the door

ROGER
No more, I've gotta go

MARK
Hey, for someone who's always been let down
Who's heading out of town?

ROGER
For someone who longs for a community of his own
 Who's with his camera, alone?
I'll call, I hate the fall
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
Just came to say
Goodbye love (Glory)
Goodbye love (one blaze of glory)
Goodbye love, goodbye (I have to find)
Please don't touch me, understand
I'm scared I need to go away

ROGER
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
 WHAT YOU OWN

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 millenium

You're living in America

Leave your conscience at the tone

And when you're living in America

At the end of the millenium
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

BEGGE
Or you may drown

You're living in America

At the end of the millenium
You're living in America
Where it's like the twilight zone
 And when you're living in America
At the end of the millenium
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

BEGGE
For once I didn't disengage

BEGGE
Angel - I hear you - Mimi I See You
I hear in my film- I hear in my song!

ROGER
One Song Glory
Mimi Your Eyes!

MARK
Alexi - Lawrence
Call me a hypocrite
I need to finish my
Own film

BEGGE
I quit!

Dying in America
At the end of the millenium
We're dying in America
To come into our own

And when you're dying in America

At the end of the millenium
You're not alone

I'm not alone

I'm not alone
 YOUR EYES

MARK
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've have told you
Yes, there's something I should've 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

(Vi hører ''Puccini'' – temaet, riktig og lidenskapelig utført. MIMIs hode faller til siden og armen
hennes faller over bordkanten.)

Mimi
 FINALE B

MARK
There is no future
There is no past

ROGER
Thank God this moment's not the last

ALLE
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

I can't control
(Will I lose my dignity?)
My destiny
(Will someone care?)
I trust my soul
(Will I wake tomorrow?)
My only goal
(From this nightmare)
Is just to be without you the hand gropes
(There's only now, there's only here)
The ear hears, the pulse beats
(Give in to love or live in fear)
Life goes on but I'm gone
(No other path, no other way)
'Cause I die without you
(No day but today)
I die without you
(No day but today)
I die without you
(No day but today)
I die without you
(No day but today)
I die without you
(No day but today)
I die without you
(No day but today)
No day but today