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Collins lets begin Angel Hi Im Angel Collins Tom Collins Alexy Darling Mark Cohen Rogers Mom Roger Mark Joanne Maureen Benny Collins Mimi Marquez MARK How do you documentry 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 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 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 Christmas day Take me out tonight (meow) MAUREEN AND JOANNE Take me for what I am Who I was meant to be Who I was meant to be And if you give a damn If Ya Give A Damn then go Take me baby or leave me Take me baby Or leave me Guess I'm leaving I'm gone! ANGEL You be my king And I'll be your castle COLLINS No you'll be my queen And I'll be your moat BOTH 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 COLLINS ANGEL 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 BOTH Oh lover I'll cover you Oh lover I'll cover you A GIRL No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection Muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders! ALL Film! MARK Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood and sleaze! ALL Music! ANGEL Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, Rhythm, feeling, power, harmony, and heavy competition! ALL Anarchy! COLLINS AND MAUREEN Revolution, justice, screaming for solutions, Forcing changes, risk, and danger Making noise and making pleas! ALL To f*ggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers too MAUREEN To me MARK To me COLLINS AND ANGEL To me ALL 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 Is anyone in the mainstream? Anyone alive--with a s** drive OTHERS La vie Boheme La vie Boheme La vie Boheme MARK Tear down the wall Aren't we all? The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation! ALL La vie Boheme MARK The riot continues. The Christmas tree goes up in flames. The snow dances. Oblivious, Mimi and Roger share a small, lovely kiss ALL Viva la vie Boheme! MAUREEN Only thing MIMI Would you light my Candle COMPANY In diapers - report cards In spoke wheels - in speeding tickets In contracts - dollars in funerals - in births In - five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do you figure A last year on Earth? Figure in love Figure in love Figure in love Measure in love Seasons of love Seasons of love 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'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 - good-bye, 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 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 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 Roger Time flies- time dies Glory- one blaze of glory One blaze of glory- glory 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 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 this song dies COLLINS I've longed to discover Something as true As this is (The following is sung simultaneously.) JOANNE AND SOLOIST So with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses I'll cover you COLLINS If you're cold and you're lonely You've got one nickel only When you're worn out and tired When your heart has expired COMPANY Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred -- measure a year Oh lover I'll cover you Oh lover I'll cover you COLLINS AND COMPANY Oh lover I'll cover you Oh lover COLLINS I'll cover you