La Vie Boheme - Best Of Version

MARK
 Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes
 COLLINS & ROGER
 Dies irae - dies illa, Kyrie eleison
 Yitgadal v'yitkadash
 MARK
 Here she lies, no one knew her worth
 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 Bohème
 ALL
 La vie Bohème
 La vie Bohème
 La vie Bohème
 La vie Bohème
 MARK
 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!
 ALL
 La vie Bohème!
 La vie Bohème
 MR. GREY
 Ahhemm
 MAUREEN
 Hey Mister - she's my sister
 WAITER
 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
 WAITER
 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 & COLLINS
 Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion
 Creation, vacation
 MARK
 Mucho masturbation
 MAUREEN & COLLINS
 Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new
 COLLINS
 To Sontag
 ANGEL
 To Sondheim
 FOUR GIRLS
 To anything taboo
 COLLINS & ROGER
 Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage,
 COLLINS
 Lenny Bruce
 ROGER
 Langston Hughes
 MAUREEN
 To the stage
 BOHEMIANS
 To Uta. To Buddha. Pablo Neruda, too.
 MARK & MIMI
 Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
 To blow off Auntie Em
 ALL
 La vie Bohème!
 MAUREEN
 And wipe the speakers off before you pack
 JOANNE
 Yes, Maureen
 MAUREEN
 Well, hurry back!
 MR. GREY
 Sisters?
 MAUREEN & JOANNE
 We're close
 ANGELS & COLLINS
 Brothers!
 MARK, ANGEL & MIMI
 Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens,
 Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
 Pee-wee Herman
 German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
 Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
 Carmina Burana
 ALL
 To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
 Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC
 To no shame - never playing the Fame Game
 COLLINS
 To marijuana!
 ALL
 To sodomy, it's between God and me
 To S&M!
 BENNY
 Waiter ... Waiter ... Waiter ... Waiter!
 ALL
 La vie Bohème!
 MIMI
 AZT break
 ROGER
 You?
 MIMI
 Me. You?
 ROGER
 Mimi