Here you go, Donna!
Ever wonder about the lyrics to La Vie Boheme, from Rent? Read on, my friends!
**Note, I didn't include the entire introduction to the song as sung in the stage version, Just a bit of the dialouge leading up to the major song. I am focusing on getting the lyrics to everything they were toasting to, so if you're singing along, I stopeed at the end of La Vie Boheme before Roger and Mimi start their conversation.**
I also found this awesome website that researched the different people mentioned in the song. I will link it to the bottom of the page as well as here so that you can read it if you want!
La Vie Boheme and La Vie Boheme B (Film version - mostly..the two versions get a bit mixed in my head...)
ROGER
"Why did Muffy-"
BENNY
"Alison"
ROGER
"Miss the show?"
BENNY
"There was a death in the family
If you must know"
ANGEL
"Who died?"
BENNY
"Our Akita"
BENNY, MARK, ANGEL, COLLINS
"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 and cast
"Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes
(Dies irae dies illa
Kyrie eleison)
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
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
To days of inspiration
Playing hookie, 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 Absolute- to choice
To the "Village Voice"
To any passing fad
To being an us, for once, instead of a them -
La vie Boheme!
La vie Boheme"
MAUREEN
"Hey Mister- she's my sister!"
RESTAURANT MAN
"So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls"
"eeew"
Collins
"It tastes the same"
Mimi
"If you close your eyes"
RESTAURANT MAN
"And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?"
CAST
"Wine and beer!
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
MR. GREY
Sisters?
MAUREEN & JOANNE
We're close
CAST:
Brothers!
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
COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon will commence
immediately following dinner
Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the
eleventh street lot,
Will sing native american tribal chants backwards through her vocoder,
While accompanying herself on the electric cello....
Which she aint never studied
...and Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an
erection on high holy days
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 ..........
That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz"
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub
And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist
Including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the M.I.T. virtual reality equipment
To self-destruct, as it broadcast the words:
ALL
"Actual reality -- Act Up -- Fight AIDS"
BENNY
"Check!..............."
...............
La Vie Boheme - B
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,
Power, Rhythm, Feeling, 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
MARK
Anyone Out Of The
Mainstream
Is Anyone In The
Mainstream?
Anyone Alive - With A
Sex Drive
Tear Down The Wall
Aren't We All?
The Opposite Of War
Isn't Peace...
It's Creation
La Vie Boheme
Viva La Vie Boheme!
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