Lyrics of 'La Vie Bohème B' by Rent

MAUREEN
Are we packed?

JOANNE
Yes and by next week
I want you to be

MAUREEN
Pookie?

JOANNE
And you should see
They've padlocked your building
And they're rioting on Avenue B
Benny called the cops

MAUREEN
That fuck

JOANNE
They don't know what they're doing
The cops are sweeping the lot
But no one's leaving
They're just sitting there, mooing!

ALL
Yeah!!!

ALL
To dance

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
Darkrooms, perfect faces, egos, money
Hollywood and sleaze

ALL
Music

ANGEL
Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, rhythm
Power, feeling
Harmony and heavy competition

ALL
Anarchy

COLLINS & MAUREEN
Revolution, justice
Screaming for solutions
Forcing changes, risk and danger
Making noise and making pleas

ALL
To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers too

MAUREEN
To me

MARK
To me

COLLINS & 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 Bohème
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème

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

ALL
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème

ALL
La Vie Bohème

ALL
Viva la Vie Bohème