MOULIN ROUGE
LYRICS
Nature Boy
(David Bowie)

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"


Complainate De La Butte
(Rufus Wainwright)

La lune trop blême
Pose un diadème
Sur tes cheveux roux
La lune trop rousse
De gloire éclabousse
Ton jupon plein d'trous

La lune trop pâle
Caresse l'opale
De tes yeux blasés
Princesse de la rue
Soit la bienvenue
Dans mon cœur brisé

Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
Les ailes du moulin protègent les amoureux

Petite mandigote
Je sens ta menotte
Qui cherche ma main
Je sens ta poitrine
Et ta taille fine
J'oublie mon chagrin

Je sens sur tes lèvres
Une odeur de fièvre
De gosse mal nourri
Et sous ta caresse
Je sens une ivresse
Qui m'anéantit

Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
Les ailes du moulin protègent les amoureux

Et voilà quelle trotte
La lune qui flotte
La princesse aussi
La da da da da
La da da da da
Mes rêves épanouis

Les escaliers de la butte sont durs aux miséreux
Les ailes du moulin protègent les amoureux


Lady Marmalade
(Mya, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim & Missy Elliot)

[Lil’ kim:]
Where’s all mah soul sistas
Lemme hear ya’ll flow sistas

[Mya:]
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, flow sista
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, go sista

[Mya:]
He met Marmalade down in old Moulin Rouge
Struttin’ her stuff on the street
She said, "Hello, hey Jo, you wanna give it a go?" Oh! uh huh

[Chorus:]
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada (Hey hey hey)
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here (here)
Mocha Chocalata ya ya (oh yea)
Creole lady Marmalade

[Lil’ Kim:]
What What, What what
[Mya:]
ooh oh

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir
Voulez vous coucher avec moi

[Lil’ Kim:]
yea yea yea yea

[Pink:]
He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
Boy drank all that Magnolia wine
On her black satin sheets is where he started to freak
yeah

[Chorus]

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir, what what what)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi

[Lil’ Kim:]
yea yea uh
He come through with the money and the garter bags
I let him know we bout that cake straight up the gate uh
We independent women, some mistake us for whores
I'm sayin‘, why spend mine when I can spend yours
Disagree? Well that's you and I’m sorry
Imma keep playing these cats out like Atari
Wear ideal shoes get love from the dudes
4 bad ass chicks from the Moulin Rouge
hey sistas, soul sistas, betta get that dough sistas
We drink wine with diamonds in the glass
by the case the meaning of expensive taste
if you wanna Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya
Mocha Chocalate-a what?
Real Lady Marmalade
One more time C’mon now

Marmalade... Lady Marmalade... Marmalade...

[Christina:]
hey Hey Hey!
Touch of her skin feeling silky smooth
color of cafe au lait alright
Made the savage beast inside roar until he cried,
More-more-more

[Pink:]
Now he's back home doin' 9 to 5

[Mya:]
Sleepin' the grey flannel life
[Christina:]
But when he turns off to sleep memories creep,
More-more-more

[Chorus]

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (all my sistas yea)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (C‘Mon! uh)

[Missy:]
Christina...(oh Leaeaa Oh)
Pink... (Lady Marmalade)
Lil’ Kim...(hey Hey! uh uh uh uh...)
Mya...(Oh Oh oooo)
Rot wailer baby...(baby)
Moulin Rouge... (0h)
Misdemeanor here...

Creole Lady Marmalade Yes-ah...


Sparkling Diamonds
(Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, Caroline O'Connor, Natalie Mendoza
& Lara Mulcahy)

The French are glad to die for love
A kiss on the hand
Maybe quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand
But it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat or
Help you feed your, mmm,  pussy cat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square cut or pear shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
(Tiffany)
(Cartier)
Because we are living
In a material world
And I am a material girl

(Come and get me boys, ow)

Black Star
Roscor
Talk to me Harry Zidler
Tell me all about it

There may come a time
When a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girls best friend
There may come a time
When a hard boiled employer
Think you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
(Girls)
He's your guy when
Stocks are high but beware
When they start to descend
(Ooh)

Diamonds are a girl's best
Diamonds are a girl's best
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

'Cause that's when those louses
Go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best
Diamonds are a girl's best friend


Rhythm of the Night
(Valeria)

When it feels like
the world is on your shoulders
and all of the madness
has got you goin crazy

It's time to get out
step out into the street
Where all of the action
is right there at your feet,
well...

I know a place where we can
dance the whole night away
underneath the electric stars
Just come with me and we can
shake your blues right away
You'll be doin fine once the music starts...Oh!

CHORUS
To the beat of the rhythm of the night
dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
we can leave them all behind
To the beat of the rhythm of the night..
oohh the rhythm of the night...oohh yeah

Look out on the street now
the party's just beginning
The music's playing
a celebration's starting

Under the streetlights
the scene is being set
A night for romance
A night you won't forget, so...

BRIDGE
Come join the fun
this ain't no time to be staying home
mmm..there's too much going on...oh!
Tonight is gonna be a night like you've never known
We're gonna have a good time the whole night long...oh!

CHORUS

BRIDGE

CHORUS

la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la
The music's playin!
It's a celebration!
The music's playin, everybody dance!

CHORUS


Diamond Dogs
(Beck)

As they pulled you out
Of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicon hump
And your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was,
Todd Browning streak he was
Crawling down the alley on
Your hands and your knees,
I'm sure you're not protected
For it's plain to see
Diamond Dogs are poachers
And they hide behind trees
Hunt you to the ground they will,
Mannequins with kill appeal
Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone
Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch a death in the fog
Young girls, they call them
The Diamond Dogs

In the year of the scavenger
Season of the b****
Sashay on the board-walk
Scurry to the ditch
Just another future song
Lonely little Keats
There's gonna be sorrow
Try and wake up for tomorrow
The Halloween Jack
Is a real cool cat,
And he lives on top
Of Manhattan Chase
The elevators broke
So he slides down a rope
Onto the street below
Oh Tarzie, go man, go

Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone
Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch a death in the fog
Young girls, they call them
The Diamond Dogs
Young girls, they call them
The Diamond Dogs
Who-who-who
Who-who-who
Who-who-who
Who-who-who


YOUR SONG
(Ewan McGregor)

My gift is my song and this ones for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if there green or there blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody that this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world


Spectacular, Spectacular!
(cast)

Spectacular, Spectacular

No words in the vernacular
Can describe this great event
You'll be dumb with wonderment
Returns are fixed at ten percent
You must agree, that's excellent
And on top of your fee...
You'll be involved artistically.

So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!
So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!

Elephants! Arabians!
Indians! And courtesans!
Acrobats! and juggling bears!
Exotic girls! Fire eaters!
Muscle Men! Contortionists!
Intrigue, danger, and romance!
Electric lights, Machinery,
Powered with electricity!

So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!
So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!

Spectacular, spectacular
No words in the vernacular
Can describe this great event
You'll be dumb with wonderment

The hills are alive, with the sound of music...

So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!
So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years!

Richard: Yes, but what happens in the end?

The courtesan and sitar man
Are pulled apart by an evil plan...
But in the end she hears his song...
And their love is just too strong.

It's a little bit funny,
This feeling inside...

So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting, it will run for 50 years--!

Sitar player's secret song,
helps them flee the evil one...
Though the tyrant rants and rails,
it is all to no avail!

Jim: I am the evil maharajah! You will not escape!
Nicole: Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could!
Jim: No one's going to!

So exciting, we'll make them laugh
we'll make them cry!
So delighting --!

Richard: And in the end should someone die?

So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!
So delighting it will run for 50 years...!

Richard: Generally, I like it...!


Children of the Revolution
(Bono, Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer)

La de da
La de da de da da da
Well you can bump and grind
If it's good for your mind
Well you can twist and shout
Let it all hang out
But you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No no

Well you can tear a plane
In the falling rain
I drive a Rolls Royce
'Cause it's good for my voice
But you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No no

La de da
La de da de da da da
La de da
La de da de da de da da da
La de da
La de da de da da da
La de da
La de da

You won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No you won't fool the
Children of the revolution
No you won't fool
No no
You won't fool the children
No no you can tie
The photographic tight
You won't make it
Oh la de da

La de da
La de da de da da da
La de da
La de da de da de da da


One Day I'll Fly Away
(Nicole Kidman)

I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will I begin
To live again?
One day I'll fly away
Leave all this to yesterday
What more could
Your love do for me?
When will love be
Through with me?
Why live life from
Dream to dream
And dread the day
When dreaming ends?

One day I'll fly away
Leave all this to yesterday
Why live life from
Dream to dream
And dread the day
When dreaming ends?

One day I'll fly away
Fly, fly away


Elephant Love Medley
(Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman & Jamie Allen)

Ewan: Love is many a splendid thing
Love lifts us up where we belong
All you need is love

Nicole: Please don't start that again

Ewan: All you need is love

Nicole: A girl has got to eat

Ewan: All you need is love

Nicole: She'll end up on the street

Ewan: All you need is love

Nicole: Love is just a game

Ewan: I was made for
Loving for you baby
You were made
For loving me

Nicole: The only way
Of loving me baby
Is to pay a lovely fee

Ewan: Just one night
Gimme just one night

Nicole:
There's no way
'Cause you can't pay

Ewan: In the name of love
One night in the name of love

Nicole: You crazy fool
I won't give in to you

Ewan: Don't leave me this way
I can't survive without
Your sweet love, oh baby
Don't leave me this way

Nicole: You'd think that people
Would've had enough
Of silly love songs

Ewan: I look around me and I see
It isn't so (Ha ha) no

Nicole: Some people
Wanna fill the world
With silly love songs

Ewan: Well what's wrong with that
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again...
Love lifts us up
Where we belong
Where eagles fly
Over mountains high

Nicole: Love makes us act
Like we are fools
Throw our lives away
For one happy day

Ewan: We could be heroes
Just for one day

Nicole: You, you will be mean

Ewan: No I won't

Nicole: And I...
I'll drink all the time

Ewan: We should be lovers!

Nicole: We can't do that

Ewan: We should be lovers
And that's a fact

Nicole: No nothing
Will keep us together

Ewan: We could steal time
Just for one day

Ewan and Nicole: We could be heroes
Forever and ever
We could be heroes
Forever and ever
We could be heroes

Ewan: Just because
I will always love you

Nicole: And I...

Ewan & Nicole: Can't help loving

Ewan: You

Nicole: How wonderful life is...

Ewan & Nicole: Now you're in the world



Come What May
(Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman)

Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
I want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I love more and more
Listen to my heart
Can you hear it sings
Telling me to give you everything
Seasons may change
Winter to spring
But I love you until
The end of time

CHORUS:
Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day

Suddenly the world seems
Such a perfect place
Suddenly it moves with
Such a perfect grace
Suddenly my life
Doesn't seem such a waste
But our world revolves around you
And there's no mountain too high
No river too wide
Sing out this song
I'll be there by your side
Storm clouds may gather
And stars may collide
But I love you until
The end of time

CHORUS

Oh, come what may
Come what may
I will love you
I will love you
Suddenly the world seems
Such a perfect place

CHORUS


Like A Virgin
(Jim Broadbent & Richard Roxburgh)

Jim: She's like a blushing bride

She says you make her feel like a virgin

Richard: A virgin?

Jim:You know, touched for the very first time
She says it feels so good inside
When you hold her
And you touch her
Like a virgin

She's made it through the wilderness somehow
She made it though
She didn't know how lost she was
Until she found you

She was beat incomplete
She'd been had
She was sad and blue
But you made her feel
Yes you made her feel
Shiny and new

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats close in time

If you want her love
Fear is fading fast
She's saving it all for you
Only love can last

She's so fine and she's nice
She'll be yours til the end of time
Cause you made her feel
Yes you made her feel
She had nothing to hide

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats close in time

Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold her and you touch her

Richard: She's so fine
And she's mine
She makes me strong
Yes she makes me bold
And her love thawed out
Yes her love for thawed out
What was scared and cold

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats close in time

Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold her and you touch her
And you hold her and you touch her

Like a viiiirgin!


El Tango De Roxanne
(Ewan McGregor, Jose Feliciano & Jacek Koman)

Jacek : Will drive you...
Will drive you...
Will drive you... MAD!
Roxanne
You don't have to put
On that red light
Work the streets for money
You don't care if
It's wrong if it is right
Roxanne
You don't have to wear
That dress tonight
Roxanne
You don't have to sell your
Body to the night

Ewan: His eyes upon your face
His hand upon your hand
His lips caress your skin
It's more than I can stand

Jacek: Roxanne

Ewan: Why does my heart cry

Jacek: Roxanne

Ewan: Feelings I can't fight
You're free to leave me
But just don't deceive me
And please
Believe me when I say
I love you

(Spanish talking)

Jacek: Roxanne

Ewan: Why does my heart cry

Jacek: You don't have to
Put on that red light

Ewan: Feelings I can't fight

Jacek: You don't have to wear
That dress tonight
Roxanne

CHORUS: Why does my heart cry

Jacek: You don't have to put
On that red light

CHORUS: Feelings I can't fight

Jacek: You don't have to wear
That dress tonight
Roxanne
Roxanne
Roxanne!


The Show Must Go On


Nicole:
I was a fool to believe
A fool to believe
It all ends today
Yes it all ends today
***
Today's the day
When dreaming ends

Jim:
Another hero. Another mindless crime.
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime.
On and on
Does anybody know
What we are living for
Whatever happens
We leave it all to chance
Another heartache
Another failed romance
On and on
Does anybody know
What we are living for

The show must go on
The show must go on
Outside the dawn is breaking
On the stage that holds
Our final destiny
The show must go on
The show must go on

Nicole: Inside my heart is breaking
My makeup may be flaking
But my smile still stays on

Jim: The show must go on
The show must go on

Nicole: I'll top the bill
I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry
Nicole & Jim: On with the
On with the
On with the show

Jim: On with the SHOW!
On with the SHOW!

The show must
The show must go on


Hindi Sad Diamonds
(Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo & Alka Yagnik)

Jim: She is mine!

John:
I only speak the truth [x8]


(Alka sings... He chama chama... etc)

Nicole: Kiss and diamonds best friend
Kiss, grand
Diamonds best friend
Men, cold
Girls, old
And we all lose our
Charms in the end

Men & Nicole:
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

Nicole and Cast:
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a
Diamonds are a

Nicole:Girls...Best...Friend

Jim: She is mine

Richard: She is mine
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** The names credited in brackets are the singers in the movie, not necessarily the original singer and/or writer