You WANT to read this, even though I cut it.
This song quite possibly describes a lot of my life. It's cool - take a look and check out what they're toasting in some of these verses. I would like to take this moment to say that RENT is the greatest musical ever written. Ok, I'm done now. I'll let it speak for itself.
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 Uta
To Buddha
Pablo Neruda, too
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em
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
[Break]
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 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
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
Aren't we all
The opposite of war isn't peace...
It's creation
La Vie Boheme!