La Vie Boheme...
I finally got the lyrics to La vie Boheme, by myself, from memory... yes.
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes.
(Dies irae - dies illa
Kyrie eleison
Yitgadal v' yitkadash)
Here she lies.
No one knew her worth.
The late, great daughter of Mother Earth.
On this night 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
To days of inspiration,
Playing hookey, 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!
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 Buddha,
Pablo Neruda, too.
Why Dorothy and Toto
went over the rainbow
to blow off Auntie Emm!
La Vie Boheme!
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&M!
La vie Boheme!
To Dance!
No way to make a living, Masochism,
Pain, Perfection,
Muscle Spasm, Chiropractors, Short-
Careers, Eating Disorders!
Film!
Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations,
Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos,
Money, Hollywood and sleaze!
Music!
Food Of Love, Emotion, Mathematics,
Isolation,
Rhythm, feeling, power, 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 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.
To anyone in the mainstream.
Is anyone in the mainstream?
Anyone alive with a sex drive!
La vie Boheme!
Tear Down The Wall
Aren't We All
The Opposite Of War
Isn't Peace...
It's Creation
La vie Boheme!
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes.
(Dies irae - dies illa
Kyrie eleison
Yitgadal v' yitkadash)
Here she lies.
No one knew her worth.
The late, great daughter of Mother Earth.
On this night 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
To days of inspiration,
Playing hookey, 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!
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 Buddha,
Pablo Neruda, too.
Why Dorothy and Toto
went over the rainbow
to blow off Auntie Emm!
La Vie Boheme!
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&M!
La vie Boheme!
To Dance!
No way to make a living, Masochism,
Pain, Perfection,
Muscle Spasm, Chiropractors, Short-
Careers, Eating Disorders!
Film!
Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations,
Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos,
Money, Hollywood and sleaze!
Music!
Food Of Love, Emotion, Mathematics,
Isolation,
Rhythm, feeling, power, 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 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.
To anyone in the mainstream.
Is anyone in the mainstream?
Anyone alive with a sex drive!
La vie Boheme!
Tear Down The Wall
Aren't We All
The Opposite Of War
Isn't Peace...
It's Creation
La vie Boheme!