Letra da Música: La Vie Boheme (Life Cafe) - Rent

RESTAURANT MAN
No, please, no
Not tonight, please, no
Mister - can't you go
Not tonight
Can't have a scene

ROGER
What?

RESTAURANT MAN
Go, please go
You
Hello, sir
I said no
Important customer

MARK
What am I - just a blur?

RESTAURANT MAN
You sit all night
You never buy!

MARK
That's a lie - that's a lie
I had a tea the other day

RESTAURANT MAN
You couldn't pay

MARK
Oh yeah

COLLINS
Benjamin Coffin the third - here?

RESTAURANT MAN
Oh no

ALL
Wine and beer!

MAUREEN
The enemy of Avenue A
We'll stay

RESTAURANT MAN
Oy vey!

COLLINS
What brings the mogul in his own mind to the Life Cafe?

BENNY
I would like to propose a toast
To Maureen's noble try
It went well

MAUREEN
Go to hell

BENNY
Was the yuppie scum stomped
Not counting the homeless
How many tickets weren't comped

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
Mimi - I'm surprised
A bright and charming
Girl like you
Hangs out with these slackers
Who don't adhere to deals
They 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
Dearly beloved
We gather here
To say our goodbyes

COLLINS & ROGER
Dies irae - Dies illa
Kyrie eleison
Yitgadal V'Yitkadash, etc.

MARK
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 Bohème

ALL
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème
La Vie Bohème

MARK
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 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

MAUREEN
Is the equipment in a pyramid?

JOANNE
It is, Maureen

MAUREEN
The mixer doesn't have a case
Don't give me that face

MR. GREY
Ahhemm!

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

A BOY
Ugh

COLLINS
It tastes the same

MIMI
If you close your eyes

RESTAURANT MAN
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 PEOPLE
To anything taboo

COLLINS & ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan
Cunningham and Cage

COLLINS
Lenny Bruce

ROGER
Langston Hughes

MAUREEN
To the stage

PERSON #1
To Uta

PERSON #2
To Buddha

PERSON #3
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

(MAUREEN and JOANNE kiss.)

MR. GREY
Sisters?

MAUREEN
We're close

ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK & MR. GREY
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & THREE OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals
Homo sapiens
Carcinogens, hallucinogens Men, Pee-wee Herman
German wine, turpentine Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, 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

ALL
La Vie Bohème

COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia
An impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner...
Mimi Marquez
Clad only in bubble wrap
Will perform her famous lawn-chair-handcuff dance
To the sounds of iced tea being stirred

ROGER
Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
About his inability
To hold an erection on high holy days

MARK
And Maureen Johnson
Back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the 11th street lot
Will sing Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder
While accompanying herself on the electric cello
Which she has never studied.

BENNY
Your new boyfriend doesn't know about us?

MIMI
There's nothing to know

BENNY
Don't you think that we could discuss -

MIMI
It was three months ago

BENNY
He doesn't act like he's with you

MIMI
We're taking it slow

BENNY
Where is he now?

MIMI
He's right - Hmm

BENNY
Uh-huh

MIMI
Where'd he go?

MARK
Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song

(ROGER picks up a guitar and plays Musetta's Theme.)

MARK
That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz"

COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the ten gallon plastic pickle-tub

ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist
Including the successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual-reality equipment
To self-destruct as it broadcast the words

ALL:
"Actual reality - act up - Fight AIDS"

BENNY
Check!

MIMI
Excuse me
Did I do something wrong?
I get invited
Then ignored - all night long

ROGER
I've been trying
I'm not lying
No one's perfect
I've got baggage

MIMI
Life's too short, babe
Time is flying
I'm looking for baggage
That goes with mine

ROGER
I should tell you -

MIMI
I've got baggage too

ROGER
I should tell you

BOTH
Baggage - wine -

OTHERS
And beer!

MIMI
AZT break

ROGER
You?

MIMI
Me. You?

ROGER
Mimi