Lyrics

 

These are the lyrics as they appear in the FILM, complete with bits of dialogue. For the lyrics to the songs as they appear on the FIRST SOUNDTRACK, click HERE. For the lyrics to the songs as they appear on the SECOND SOUNDTRACK, click HERE.

 

Nature Boy * The Sound of Music/Green Fairy * Zidler’s Rap/Smells Like Lady Marmalade * Sparkling Diamonds * Your Song

Your Song (Reprise) * The Pitch (Spectacular Spectacular) * One Day I’ll Fly Away * Elephant Love Medley * Gorecki

Like a Virgin * Come What May * A Fool to Believe * The Show Must Go On * Hindi Sad Diamonds

 Come What May (Reprise) * Coup D’Etat

 

 

 

NATURE BOY

 

[TOULOUSE] 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,

                  One magic day,

                  He passed my way.

                  While we spoke of many things,

                     Fools and kings,

  This he said to me:

 

[CHRISTIAN] ‘The greatest thing you’ll ever learn

                   Is just to love and be loved in return.’

 

 

THE SOUND OF MUSIC/GREEN FAIRY

 

[TOULOUSE] The hills animate with the euphonious symphonies of descant!

 

[AUDREY] Oh stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

 

[The music stops.]

 

[AUDREY] Stop that insufferable droning! It’s drowning out my words! Can we please just stick to a little decorative piano?

         

CHRISTIAN: There seemed to be artistic differences over Audrey’s lyrics to Satie’s songs.

         

[THE DOCTOR] I don’t think a nun would say that about a hill.

         

[SATIE] What if he sings ‘the hills are vital, intoning the descant’?

 

[TOULOUSE] No, no. The hills quake and shake…

 

[THE DOCTOR] No, no, no, no. The hills…

 

[ARGENTINEAN] The hills are incarnate with symphonic melodies!

 

[THE DOCTOR] No.

 

[CHRISTIAN] The hills...

 

[TOULOUSE]No. The hills...

 

[CHRISTIAN] The hills…

 

[TOULOUSE] The hills…

 

[THE DOCTOR] The hills are chanting the eternal mantra…

 

[CHRISTIAN] The hills are alive…

 

[SATIE] Frank is living in my foot!

 

[CHRISTIAN] The hills are alive with the sound of music!

         

[THE DOCTOR] The hills...

         

[TOULOUSE] ...are alive...

         

[SATIE] ...with the sound of music... it fits perfectly!

         

[CHRISTIAN] With songs they have sung for a thousand years.

 

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(There was a boy…)

         

[GREEN FAIRY] I’m the Green Fairy!

 

[GREEN FAIRY, CHRISTIAN, and BOHEMIANS] The hills are alive with the sound of music!

 

(…a very strange enchanted boy…)

 

[CHRISTIAN and BOHEMIANS] Yeah! Freedom, beauty, truth, and love!

 

[GREEN FAIRY] The hills are alive. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN and BOHEMIANS] You won’t fool the children of the revolution,

  No, you won’t fool the children. . .

 

[GREEN FAIRY] . . .with the sound of music!

      Of the revolution, the revolution,

      The revolution, of the revolution. . .

 

 

ZIDLER’S RAP/SMELLS LIKE LADY MARMALADE

 

[ZIDLER] If life’s an awful bore,

     And living’s just a chore

     That we do

     ‘Cause death’s not much fun

             I have just the antidote,

             And though I mustn’t gloat,

             At the Moulin Rouge!

     You’ll have fun!

     Just scratch that little niggle,

             Have a little wiggle.

    

     You know that you can,

             ‘Cause we can can-can!

 

[DIAMOND DOGS] Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

 

[ZIDLER] Don’t say you can’t, can’t, can’t!

 

[DIAMOND DOGS] Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

 

[ZIDLER] You know you can can-can!

         

[RAKES] Here we are now, entertain us!

     We feel stupid and contagious!

 

[ZIDLER] Got some dark desire?

      Love to play with fire?

      Why not let it rip, live a little bit!

      Can can-can!

 

[RAKES] Here we are now, entertain us!

 

[ZIDLER] Don’t say you can’t, can’t, can’t!

      You know you can can-can!

 

[DIAMOND DOGS] Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

 

[MEN] ‘Cause we can can-can!

         

[ZIDLER]Outside it may be raining,

     But in here it’s entertaining!

 

[DIAMOND DOGS] If you’re young, young, young and you’re free, free, free

         

[ZIDLER] Then the Moulin Rouge is the place to be!

      ‘Cause we can can-can!

         

[ALL] We can!

         

[ZIDLER] Yes we can can-can!

         

[ALL] We can!

         

[RAKES] Here we are now, entertain us!

         

[ZIDLER] Outside things may be tragic,

      But in here we feel it’s magic!

 

[RAKES] Here we are now, entertain us!

 

 

SPARKLING DIAMONDS

 

[SATINE] The French are glad to die for love,

       They delight in fighting duels. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN] But someone else was to meet Satine that night. . .

         

[SATINE] But I prefer a man who lives. . .

         

[CHRISTIAN] . . .Zidler’s investor. . .

         

[SATINE] . . .And gives expensive jewels.

 

[CHRISTIAN] . . .The Duke.

 

[SATINE] A kiss on the hand may be 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 pussycat.

     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.

         

[DUKE] When am I going to meet the girl?

         

[SATINE] Tiffany’s!

         

[ZIDLER] After her number. I’ve arranged a special meeting—just you and Mademoiselle Satine, totally alone.

         

[SATINE] Cartier!

 

[TOULOUSE] After her number, I’ve arranged a private meeting, just you and Mademoiselle Satine, totally alone.

         

[CHRISTIAN] Alone?

         

[TOULOUSE] Yes. Totally alone.

         

[ZIDLER] Totally alone.

         

[SATINE]‘Cause we are living in a material world,

     And I am a material girl!

      Come and get me boys!

 

[ZIDLER] Excuse me.

 

[SATINE] 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 girl’s best friend.

      There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer

      Thinks you’re awful nice,

      But get that ice or else no dice!

         

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[DIAMOND DOGS] Diamonds are a girl’s best,

                         Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

 

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[SATINE] Cause that’s when those louses

             Go back to their spouses.

     Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

 

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SATINE: Diamonds! Diamonds!

               Square cut or pear-shaped,

            These rocks don’t lose their shape;

    Diamonds are a girl’s best...

 

 

YOUR SONG

 

[CHRISTIAN] It’s a little bit funny.

 

[SATINE] What?

         

[CHRISTIAN] This f-feeling in-inside. I’m not one of those who can—who can easily hide. Is this—is this okay, is this what you want?

 

[SATINE] Ohh, poetry, yes. Yes. Yes, this is what I want, naughty words! Oh!

 

[CHRISTIAN] I—I don’t have much money, but. . .

 

[SATINE] Oh! Naughty!

 

[CHRISTIAN] . . .but boy if I did. . .

 

[SATINE] Oh, yes!

 

[CHRISTIAN]. . .I’d buy a big house where we both—both could live.

         

[SATINE] Oh, I love them! Oh, it’s so good!

         

[CHRISTIAN] If I were a sculptor—

 

[SATINE] Wonderful!

 

[CHRISTIAN] . . .but then again, no.

 

[SATINE] Wonderful.

 

[CHRISTIAN] Or a man who makes potions at a traveling show.

         

[SATINE] Oh don’t! Don’t! No, no, no. Don’t stop!

         

[CHRISTIAN] I know it’s not much. . .

         

[SATINE] Give me more! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh!

         

[CHRISTIAN] . . .But it’s the best I can do.

         

[SATINE] Oh, naughty! Don’t stop! Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

[CHRISTIAN] My gift is my song,

           And this one’s for you.

                  

   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, now you’re in the world.

 

             Sat on the roof and I kicked off the moss,

           Well some of these verses, well, they, they 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 they’re green or if they’re 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, now you’re in the world.

 

 

YOUR SONG (REPRISE)

 

[SATINE] NO! It’s— it’s a little bit funny.

         

[DUKE] What is?

 

[SATINE] This. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN] Feeling.

 

[SATINE]. . .feeling. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN] Inside.

 

SATINE:. . .inside.

 

[CHRISTIAN] I’m not one of those.

 

[SATINE] I’m not one of those who can easily. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN] Hide.

 

[SATINE] . . .hide! I don’t have much money, but oh, if I did, oh, I’d buy a big house where we both could live.

      I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind,

     That I put down in words,

             How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world.

 

 

THE PITCH (SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR)

 

[ZIDLER] I mean the show will be a magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be...

     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. . .

         

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] . . .you’ll be involved artistically.

   So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!

           So delighting it will run for fifty years!

                           So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!

   So delighting it will run for fifty years!

 

[TOULOUSE] Elephants!

 

[THE DOCTOR] Bohemians!

 

[ZIDLER] Indians!

 

[SATINE] And courtesans!

 

[SATIE] Acrobats!

 

[CHRISTIAN] And juggling bears!

 

[TOULOUSE]Exotic girls!

 

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] Fire-eaters!

   Muscle-men, contortionists!

   Intrigue, danger...

         

[TOULOUSE] And romance!

         

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] Electric lights! Machinery!

         

[TOULOUSE] And all that electricity!

 

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!

   So delighting, it will run for fifty years!

   So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer!

   So delighting it will run for fifty 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 fifty years!

  So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!

                          So delighting, it will run for fifty years!

         

[DUKE] Yes, but what happens in the end?

 

[CHRISTIAN] The courtesan and sitar-man

           Are pulled apart by an evil plan.

 

[SATINE] But in the end she hears his song.

 

[CHRISTIAN] And their love is just too strong.

 

[DUKE] It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside.

 

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] So exciting, the audience will stomp and cheer!

   So delighting, it will run for fifty years!

 

[CHRISTIAN] Sitar player’s secret song

                   Helps them flee the evil one.

   Though the tyrant rants and rails,

           It is all to no avail.

 

[ZIDLER] I am the evil maharajah! You will not escape!

 

[SATINE] Oh, Harold, no-one could play him like you could!

         

[ZIDLER] No-one’s going to.

 

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] So exciting, we’ll make them laugh, and make them cry!

   So delighting...

         

[DUKE] And in the end should someone die?

 

[ALL EXCEPT THE DUKE] So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer!

   So delighting it will run for fifty years!

 

[DUKE] Generally, I like it.

 

 

ONE DAY I’LL FLY AWAY

 

[SATINE] 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?

 

[CHRISTIAN] How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world.

         

[SATINE] 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

 

[SATINE] I can’t fall in love with anyone.

         

[CHRISTIAN] Can’t fall in love? But a life without love, that’s terrible!

         

[SATINE] No, being on the street, that’s terrible.

         

[CHRISTIAN] No, love is like oxygen.

 

[SATINE] What?

 

[CHRISTIAN] Love is a many-spendoured thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love!

 

[SATINE] Please, don’t start that again.

         

[CHRISTIAN] All you need is love.

 

[SATINE] A girl has got to eat!

 

[CHRISTIAN] All you need is love.

         

[SATINE] She’ll end up on the streets!

 

[CHRISTIAN] All you need is love.

         

[SATINE] Love is just a game.

 

[CHRISTIAN] I was made for loving you baby,

           You were made for loving me.

         

[SATINE] The only way of loving me baby,

      Is to pay a lovely fee.

 

[CHRISTIAN] Just one night,

          Give me just one night.

         

[SATINE] There’s no way,

     ‘Cause you can’t pay.

         

[CHRISTIAN] In the name of love,

          One night in the name of love.

 

[SATINE] You crazy fool, I won’t give in to you.

 

[CHRISTIAN] Don’t leave me this way.

                       I can’t survive without your sweet love,

                  Oh baby, don’t leave me this way.

 

[SATINE] You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.

 

[CHRISTIAN] I look around me and I see it isn’t so, oh no.

 

[SATINE] Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.

         

[CHRISTIAN] And what’s wrong with that,

   I’d like to know

            ‘Cause here I go, again.

 

[SATINE] Oh no!

 

[CHRISTIAN] Love lifts us up where we belong. . .

         

[SATINE] Get down, get down!

         

[CHRISTIAN] . . .Where eagles fly on a mountain high.

 

[SATINE] Love makes us act like we are fools,

      Throw our lives away for one happy day.

 

[CHRISTIAN] We could be heroes, just for one day!

 

[SATINE] You, you will be mean.

 

[CHRISTIAN] No, I won’t.

         

[SATINE] And I, I’ll drink all the time.

 

[CHRISTIAN] We should be lovers.

 

[SATINE] We can’t do that.

         

[CHRISTIAN] We should be lovers, and that’s a fact.

 

[SATINE] Though nothing will keep us together,

         

[CHRISTIAN] We could steal time,

 

[SATINE and CHRISTIAN] Just for one day.

                           We could be heroes, forever and ever,

                           We could be heroes forever and ever...

 

[CHRISTIAN] And I will always love you.

         

[SATINE] I can’t help loving you...

     How wonderful life is...

         

[SATINE and CHRISTIAN] Now you’re in the world.

 

[SATINE] You’re going to be bad for business, I can tell.

 

 

GORECKI

 

[SATINE] If I should die this very moment

             I wouldn’t fear,

    For I’ve never known completeness,

   Like being here,

             Wrapped in the warmth of you,

          Loving every breath of you.

 

  Why live life from dream to dream,

          And dread the day…

 

 

LIKE A VIRGIN

         

[ZIDLER] She’s like a blushing bride. She says you make her feel like a...virgin

 

[DUKE] A virgin...

         

[ZIDLER] You know, touched for the very first time.

         

[DUKE] For the first...

 

[ZIDLER] She says it feels so good inside when you hold her and you touch her.

         

[DUKE] Like a virgin...

         

[ZIDLER] She’s made it through the wilderness somehow, she’s made it through. 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’ve made her feel,

             Yes you’ve made her feel shiny and new. Ohhh,

    

     Like a virgin!

             Touched for the very first time!

             Like a vir-ir-ir-irgin!

     Your hearts beat close in time!

     Gonna give you all her love!

 

[WAITERS] Give you all her love!

 

[ZIDLER] Her fear is fading fast!

         

[WAITERS] Her fear is gone!

 

[ZIDLER] She’s been saving it all for you.

 

[WAITERS] All for you!

 

[ZIDLER] Only love can last!

 

[WAITERS] Love, love, love, love…

         

[ZIDLER] She’s so fine,

                And she’s thine.

         

[WAITERS] And she’s thine.

         

[ZIDLER] She’ll be yours.

         

[WAITERS] She’ll be yours.

         

[ZIDLER] Till the end of time. . .

 

[WAITERS] Till the end of time.

 

[ZIDLER] . . .Cause you make her feel,

      Yes, you ma-a-a-a-ade her feel

      She has nothing to hide.

              Like a virgin!

         

[WAITERS] Like a virgin!

 

[ZIDLER] Touched for the very first time!

 

[WAITERS] Touched for the very first ti-i-i-i-ime!

         

[ZIDLER] Like a vir-ir-ir-irgin!

     When your hearts beat both in time.

              Like a virgin!

 

[WAITERS] Ooh-oooh!

 

[ZIDLER] Feels so good inside.

 

[WAITERS]Feels so good inside!

 

[ZIDLER] When you hold her. . .

 

[ZIDLER] And you touch her,

     Ohh! Ohhh!

 

[DUKE] She’s so fine, and she’s mine.

   Makes me strong,

   Yes she makes me bold.

   Now, her love thawed out,

   Yes, her lo-o-o-o-ove thawed out

   What was scared and cold.

 

[ZIDLER] Like a virgin!

         

[WAITERS] Ooh, like a virgin...

 

[ZIDLER]] Like a vir-ir-ir-irgin!

         

[DUKE] When you hearts beat both in time.

 

[ZIDLER] Like a virgin!

 

[WAITERS] Vir-vir-virgin!

         

[DUKE] Feels so good inside.

         

[WAITERS] Feels so good inside.

         

[DUKE] When you hold her,

   And you touch her,

   And you hold her,

   And you touch her.

          Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh,

  Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh.

         

[DUKE and ZIDLER]Like a virgin!

 

[WAITERS] La la la

        La-la la-la

        La la la

        La-la la-la-la

 

 

COME WHAT MAY

 

[CHRISTIAN] Never knew I could feel like this,

           Like I’ve never seen the sky before.

           Want to vanish inside your kiss. . .

 

Now, uh, this new scene is the scene where the, uh, sitar payer writes a secret song for the courtesan, so that whatever is happening, what—however bad things are, th-they remember their love. And, um, we could take it from your line Satine, so let’s take it, let’s take it.

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN] We must be careful.

         

[ARGENTINEAN-AS-PENNILESS-SITAR-PLAYER] Fear not: we will conduct our love affair right under the maharajah’s...

         

[CHRISTIAN] Seasons may change, winter to spring. . .

         

[ZIDLER] Honestly amigo, this is impossible!

         

[CHRISTIAN] . . .But I love you until the end of time.

                      Come what may, come what may,

                  I will love you until my dying day.

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place. . .

 

[DUKE] My dear! A little frog!

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace.

           Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste,

                           It all revolves around you.

                                 

   And there’s no mountain too high, no river too wide,

  Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side.

                                  Storm clouds may gather, and stars may collide...

         

[CHRISTIAN] But I love you…

         

[SATINE] I love you...

         

[CHRISTIAN] …till the end...

         

[SATINE] ...until the end...

         

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] …Of time.

                                   Come what may, come what may,

                           I will love you...

 

[CHRISTIAN] The magical sitar player falls from the roof and says: ‘the greatest thing you’ll ever learn. . .

 

(The greatest thing. . .)

 

[CHRISTIAN] . . .is just to love and be loved in return.’

 

(. . .you’ll ever learn. . .)

 

[NINI] This ending’s silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer? Whoops! I mean sitar player.

 

[CHORUS] Come what may...

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN and ARGENTINEAN-AS-PENNILESS-SITAR-PLAYER] I will love you...

         

[CHORUS] Come what may...

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN and ARGENTINEAN-AS-PENNILESS-SITAR-PLAYER] Yes, I will love you...

 

[CHORUS]Come what may...

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN and ARGENTINEAN-AS-PENNILESS-SITAR-PLAYER] I will love you till my dying day!

[DUKE] I don’t like this ending.

 

 

EL TANGO DE ROXANNE

 

[ARGENTINEAN] We have a dance in the brothels of Buenos Aires. It tells the story of a prostitute, and a man who falls in love. . .with her. First, there is desire. Then, passion. Then suspicion, jealousy, anger, betrayal. Where love is for the highest bidder, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no love. Jealousy, yes, jealousy, will drive you mad!

                Roxanne!

                        You don’t have to put on that red light,

                Walk the streets for money.

                You don’t care if it’s wrong or 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.

         

[CHRISTIAN] His eyes upon your face.

   His hand upon your hand.

   His lips caress your skin.

           It’s more than I can stand!

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[CHRISTIAN] Why does my heart cry. . .

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[CHRISTIAN] . . .feelings I can’t fight.

   You’re free to leave me,

           Just don’t deceive me,

   And please believe me

           When I say I love you.

 

[DUKE] When this production succeeds you’ll no longer be a can-can dancer but an actress. I will make you a star.  Accept it as a gift from this maharajah to his courtesan.

 

[SATINE] Oh. And—and the ending?

 

[DUKE] Let Zidler keep his fairy-tale ending.

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[CHRISTIAN] Why does my heart cry...

 

[ARGENTINEAN] You don’t have to put on that red light.

               Roxanne!

         

[CHRISTIAN] . . .feelings I can’t fight. . .

 

[ARGENTINEAN] You don’t have to do your hair tonight.

 

[CHRISTIAN]. . .You’re free to leave me,

          But just don’t deceive me,

          And please believe me

          When I say I love you.

 

[SATINE] Come what may,

      I will love you till my dying day.

       No.

         

[DUKE] No? Oh, I see. It’s our very own penniless sitar player.

 

[SATINE] Dear Duke.

         

[DUKE] Silence! You made me believe that you loved me.

 

[SATINE] No.

         

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[CHRISTIAN] Why does my heart cry   

           Feelings I can’t hide?

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[CHORUS] Why does my heart cry. . .

 

[ARGENTINEAN] You don’t have to put on that red light.

                        Roxanne!

 

[CHORUS] Feelings I can’t hide.

 

[ARGENTINEAN] You don’t have to wear that dress tonight.

                Roxanne!

         

[DUKE] Why does my heart cry...

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

[DUKE] Feelings I can’t hide.

 

[ARGENTINEAN] Roxanne!

 

 

 

A FOOL TO BELIEVE

 

[SATINE] I’m dying.

     I was a fool to believe,

    A fool to believe.

    It all ends today,

    Yes it all ends today.

 

[ZIDLER] Send Christian away. Only you can save him.

         

[SATINE] He’ll fight for me.

         

[ZIDLER] Yes. Unless he believes you don’t love him.

         

[SATINE] What?

         

[ZIDLER] You’re a great actress, Satine. Make him believe you don’t love him.

         

[SATINE] No.

         

[ZIDLER] Use your talent to save him. Hurt him. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on, Satine. We’re creatures of the underworld. We can’t afford to love.

         

[SATINE] Today’s a day. . .

         

[SATINE and ZIDLER] . . .when dreaming. . .

         

[SATINE] . . .ends.

 

 

 

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

 

[ZIDLER] Another hero, another mindless crime

     Behind the curtain in the pantomime.

     On and on,

     Does anybody know what we are living for?

 

[ZIDLER and CHORUS] Whatever happened, we leave it all to chance.

                        Another heartache, another failed romance.

                        On and on,

                        Does anybody know what we are living for?

 

[ZIDLER] The show must go on!

      The show must go on!

 

[ZIDLER and CHORUS] Outside the dawn is breaking

                        On the stage that holds our final destiny. 

                        The show must go on!

                        The show must go on!

 

[SATINE] Inside my heart is breaking,

     My makeup may be flaking,

     But my smile still stays on.

         

[ZIDLER and CHORUS] The show must go on!

                        The show must go on!

 

[SATINE] I’ll top the bill,

     I’ll earn the kill,

     I have to find the will to carry on.

         

[ALL] On with the,

       On with the,

       On with the show!

 

[ZIDLER] On with the show!

      On with the show!

 

[ZIDLER and CHORUS] The show must go on!

 

 

HINDI SAD DIAMONDS

 

[ZIDLER-AS-EVIL-MAHARAJAH] She is mine!

         

[TOULOUSE-AS-MAGICAL-SITAR] I only speak the truth,

                                     I only speak the truth,

     I only speak the truth,

                                             I only speak the truth!

         

[CHORUS] Chamma chamma, he chamma chamma.

      Chamma chamma, baajere meri bendariya.

      Re chamma chamma, bajeremeri bendariya. . .

              Tere paas aawoun teri, saanson mein samavoun raja.

    

     Chamma chamma, he chamma.

     Chamma chamma baajere teri bendariya.

     Chamma chamma baajere teri bendariya.

     Tere paas aawoun teri, saansons mein samavoun raja.

    Tere paas aawoun teri, saanson mein samavoun. . .

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN] Kiss, hand, diamond’s best friend.

      Kiss grand, diamond’s best friend.

                                      Men cold, girls old.

                                      And we all lose our charms in the end.

                                              Diamonds are a,

      Diamonds are a,

      Diamonds are a,

                                              Diamonds are a...

 

[SATINE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN and CHORUS] Diamonds are a,

        Diamonds are a,

                Diamonds are a...

 

[SAITNE-AS-HINDU-COURTESAN] ...girl’s best friend.

 

[ZIDLER-AS-EVIL-MAHARAJAH] She is mine.

 

[DUKE] She is mine.

 

 

 

COME WHAT MAY (REPRISE)

 

[SATINE] Never knew I could feel like this. . .

              It’s like I’ve never seen the sky before.

              Want to vanish inside your kiss,

              Everyday I’m loving you more and more.

 

              Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing,

              Come back to me and forgive everything.

 

                 Seasons may change, winter to spring. . .

              I love you,

      Till the end of time.

 

[CHRISTIAN] Come what may,

                   Come what may,

                   Come what may,

                   Come what may, I will love you…

 

[SATINE] I will love you…

 

[CHRISTIAN] …Until my dying…

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] …day.

                           Come what may…

                              

[CHRISTIAN] Come what may…

 

[SATINE] Come what may…

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] I will love you until my dying. . .

 

 

COUP D’ETAT

 

[ARGENTINEAN] All right! No problem, go back to work!

 

[TOULOUSE] No matter what you say. . .

 

[CHORUS] Na-na, na-na.

 

[TOULOUSE] . . .The show is ending our way!

 

[ZIDLER] The show must go on!

 

[ALL] Come on and stand your ground

       For freedom, beauty, truth, and love!

 

[SATINE] I’ll fly away!

 

[CHORUS] You can’t fool the children of the revolution…

 

[SATINE] I’ll fly away!

 

[CHORUS] No, you can’t fool the children of the revolution…

 

[CHRISTIAN] My gift is my song!

 

[CHORUS] No, you won’t fool the children of the revolution…

 

[SATINE] I’ll fly away!

 

[CHORUS] No, you can’t fool the children of the revolution!

 

[CHRISTIAN] My gift is my song!

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] I will love you. . .

 

[CHORUS] Come what may. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] Yes, I will love you. . .

 

[CHORUS] Come what may. . .

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] I will love you until my. . .

 

[DUKE] My way! My way! My way!

 

[CHRISTIAN and SATINE] . . .dying day!

 

 

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This story is about truth, beauty, freedom, but above all, love…This story is about truth, beauty, freedom, but above all, love