Once More With Feeling


Song Index
Going Through the Motions
I've Got A Theory
I'm Under Your Spell
I'll Never Tell
No Parking
Rest In Peace
Dawn's Lament
        Sweet's Song
Standing in the Way
Wish I Could Stay
Drawn to the Fire
Life's A Show
Sweet's Song (Reprise)
Where Do We Go From Here?



Going Through the Motions
(Buffy, Vampires, Goat Guy, Man)


BUFFY:
Every single night the same arrangement;
I go out and fight the fight.
Still I always feel the strange estrangement;
nothing here is real, nothing here is right.

I've been making shows of training blows
just hoping no one knows
that I've been going through the motions,
walking through the part,
nothing seems to penetrate my heart.

I was always brave and kind of rightous
now I find I'm wavering.
Crawl out of your grave
you find this fight just doesn't mean a thing.
       VAMPIRE: Sure ain't got that swing.
BUFFY: Thanks for noticing.

VAMPIRES & GOAT GUY:
She does pretty well with fiends from hell,
but lately we can tell,
that she's just going through the motions,
       GOAT GUY: Going through the motions
Faking it somehow.
       GOAT GUY: She's not even half the girl she...ow!

BUFFY:
Will I stay this way forever,
sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?
       MAN: How can I repay...
Whatever. I don't want to be

Going through the motions,
loosing all my drive.
I can't even see if this is even me
and I just want to be alive.



I've Got A Theory
(Giles, Willow, Tara, Xander, Anya, Buffy)


GILES:
I've got a theory
that it's a deamon.
A dancing deamon.
No, something isn't right there.

WILLOW:
I've got a theory
some kid is dreamin'
and we're all stuck inside his wacky broadway nightmare.

XANDER:
I've got a theory
we should work this out.
EVERYONE:
It's getting erie
what's this cheery singing all about?

XANDER:
It could be witches!
Some evil witches!
Which is ridiculous 'cause witches they were persecuted
and Wicca good
and love the Earth
and women power
and I'll be over here.

ANYA:
I've got a theory
it could be bunnies...

WILLOW:
I've got a

ANYA:
Bunnies aren't as cute like everybody supposes
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?!
Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be Bunnies!!
...or maybe midgets

WILLOW:
I've got a theory
we should work this fast.

WILLOW & GILES:
'Cause it clearly could get serious
before it's past.

BUFFY:
I've got a theory
it doesn't matter.
What can't we face if we're together?
What's in this place that we can't weather?
Appocalypse? We've all been there.
The same old tricks, why should we care?

EVERYONE:
What can't we do if we get in it?
We'll work it through within a minute.
We have to try, we'll pay the price,
It's do or die,
       BUFFY: Hey, I've died twice.

EVERYONE:
What can't we face if we're together?
       GILES: What can't we face
What's in this place that we can't weather?
       GILES: if we're together?
There's nothing we can't face,
       ANYA: Except for bunnies



I'm Under Your Spell
(Tara)


I lived my life in the shadow
Never the sun on my face.
It didn't seem so sad though
I figured that was my place.
Now I'm bathed in light
Something just isn't right.

I'm under your spell.
How else could it be,
Anyone would notice me?
It's magic, I can tell.
How you set me free
Brought me out so easily.

I saw a world enchanted;
Spirits and charms in the air.
I always took for granted
I was the only one there,
But your power shone
Brighter than any I've known

I'm under your spell.
Nothing I can do
You just took my soul with you.
You worked your charm so well.
Finally I knew,
Everything I dreamed was true.
You make me believe.

The moon to the tide
I can feel you inside

I'm under your spell
Surging like the sea
Pulled to you so helplessly

I brake with every swell
Lost in ectasy
Spread beneath my willow tree
You make me complete

You make me complete
You make me complete
You make me complete



I'll Never Tell
(Anya & Xander)


ANYA:
This is the man that I plan to entangle
Isn't he fine?
My claim to fame was to maime and to mangle
Vengence was mine!

But I'm out of the biz
The name I've made I'll trade for his
The only trouble is
I'll never tell

XANDER:
She is the one
She's such wonderful fun
Such passion and grace.
Warm in the night when I'm right in her tight
embrace, tight embrace!

I'll never let her go.
The love we share can only grow.
There's just one thing that, no.
I'll never tell.

BOTH:
'Cause there's nothing to tell

ANYA: He snores
XANDER: She weezes
ANYA: Say housework and he freezes
XANDER: She eats these sceeze cheeses that i can't describe
ANYA: I talk, he breezes
XANDER: She doesn't know what please is
ANYA: His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe
BOTH: The vibe gets kind of scary

XANDER: Like she thinks i'm ordinary
ANYA: Like it's all just temporary
XANDER: Like her toes are kinda hairy
BOTH: But it's all very well,
'Cause god know i'll never tell

ANYA:
When things get rough
he just hides behind his Buffy
Now look he's getting huffy
'Cause he knows that i know

XANDER:
She clings, she's needy
She's also really greedy
She never...
       ANYA: His eyes are beady
This is my verse, hello?
She...
ANYA: Look at me, I'm dancing crazy!

BOTH: You know
XANDER: you're quite the charmer.
ANYA: my knight in armor.
XANDER: You're the cutest of the Scoobies
with your lips as red as rubies
and your firm yet supple...
tight embrace.

ANYA: He's swell.
XANDER: She's sweller.
ANYA: He's always be my feller.
XANDER: That's why I'll never tell her that I'm petrified.

ANYA:
I've read this tale
there's wedding then betrayal
I know there'll come the day I'll want to run and hide.

BOTH:
I lied, I said it's easy.
I've tried but there's these fears I can't quell.

XANDER: Is she looking for a pot of gold?
ANYA: Will I look good when I've gotten old?

XANDER:
Will our life become too stressful
if I'm never that successful?

ANYA:
When I've got so old and wrinkly
that I look like David Brinkly...

XANDER: Am I crazy?
ANYA: Am I dreamin'?
XANDER: Am I marrying a deamon?

BOTH:
We could really raise the beam
In making marriage a hell,
so thank god I'll never tell
I swear that I'll never tell

XANDER: My lips are sealed.
ANYA: I take the fifth.
XANDER: Nothing to see, move it along.
BOTH: I'll never, tell!



No Parking
(Woman)


I've been having a bad bad day
Come on, won't you put that pad away
I'm asking you please no
It isn't right, it isn't fair!
There was no parking anywhere
I think that hydrant wasn't there
Why can't you let it go?
I think I've paid more than my share
I'm just a poor girl, don't you care?
Hey, I'm not wearing underwear



Rest In Peace
(Spike)


I died so many years ago
But you can make me feel
Like it isn't so.
Why you come to be with me
I think I finally know.

You're scared, ashamed of what you feel
And you can't tell the ones you love
You know they couldn't deal
whisper in a dead man's ear
It doesn't make it real.

That's great
But I don't want to play.
'Cause being with you touches me
More than I can say.
Since I'm only dead to you
I'm saying stay away
And let me rest in peace.

Let me rest in peace.
Let me get some sleep.
Let me take my love and bury it
In a hole six foot deep.
I can lay my body down
But I can't get my sweet release.
So let me rest in peace.

You know, you got a willing slave
And you just love to play the thought
That you might misbehave.
Until you do, I'm telling you
Stop visiting my grave
And let me rest in peace.

I know I should go
but I follow you like a man possesed.
There's a traitor here, beneath my breast
And it hurts me more, than you'll ever guess.
If my heart could beat, it would break my chest,
But I can't see you're unimpressed,
So leave me be,

And let me rest in peace.
Let me get some sleep.
Let me take my love and bury it
In a hole six foot deep.
I can lay my body down
But I can't find my sweet release.
Let me rest in peace.
Why won't you
Let me rest in peace?



Dawn's Lament
(Dawn)


Does anybody even notice?
Does anybody even care?



Sweet's Song
(Sweet & Dawn)


SWEET:
Why'd you run away?
Don't you like my style?
Why don't you come and play?
I guarantee you a great big smile

I come from the imagination
And I'm here strictly by your invocation
So what do you say?
Why don't we dance awhile?

I'm the hottest fiend
I'm the twisted child
When you gotta sing,
When you gotta let it out
You call me and I come a-running
I turn the music on; I bring the fun in
Now, we're partying
That's what it's all about

'Cuz I know, what you feel, girl
I know just what you feel, girl

All these melodies, they go on too long
Than that energy starts to come on way too strong
All those hearts wide open; that must sting
Plus, some customer just died combusting
That's the penalty when life is but a song

You brought me down into this town
So, when we blow this scene,
Back we will go to my kingdom below and you will be my queen
Cuz I know what you feel, girl

DAWN:
No, you see
You and me
Wouldn't be very regal

SWEET:
I'll make it real, girl

DAWN:
What I mean
I'm fifteen
So, this queen thing's illegal

SWEET:
I can bring whole cities to ruin
And still have time to get a soft-shoe in

DAWN:
Well, that's great
But I'm late
And I'd hate to delay her

SWEET:
Something's cooking, I'm at the griddle
I bought Nero his very first fiddle

DAWN:
She'll get pissed
If I'm missed
See, my sister's the Slayer...

SWEET:
Now we're partying
That's what it's all about



Standing in the Way
(Giles)


You're not ready for the world outside.
You keep pretending, but you just can't hide.
I know I said that I'd be standing by your side
But I...

Your path's unbeaten and it's all uphill.
And you can meet it, but you never will.
And I'm the reason that you're standing still
But I...

I wish I could say the right words
To lead you through this land.
Wish i could play the father
And take you by the hand.
Wish I could stay
But now I understand, I am standing in the way.

The cries around you, you don't hear at all.
'Cause you know i'm here to take that call.
So you just lie there when you should be standing tall
But I...

I wish I could lay your arms down
And let you rest at last.
Wish I could slay your deamons
But now that time is past
Wish I could stay.
You're stalwart, standing fast.
But I'm standing in the way
I'm just standing in the way



Wish I Could Stay
(Tara & Giles)


TARA:
I'm under your spell.
God, how can this be?
Playing with my memory?

You know I've been through Hell.
Willow don't you see,
There'll be nothing left of me.
You made me believe.

GILES: Believe me I don't want to go.

BOTH:
And it'll grieve me 'cause I love you so
But we both know.

GILES:
Wish I could say the right words
To lead you through this land.
Wish I could play the father
And take you by the hand.
        TARA:
Wish I could trust that it was just this once
But I must do what I must.
I can't adjust to this disgust
We're done and I just


BOTH:
Wish I could stay,
Wish I could stay,
Wish I could stay,
Wish I could stay.



Drawn to the Fire
(Buffy, Spike, Giles, Xander, Anya, Willow, Tara, Sweet)


BUFFY:
I touch the fire and it freezes me
I look into it and it's black
Why can't I feel? My skin should crack and peel
I want the fire back!

Now through the smoke she calls to me
To make my way across the flame;
To save the day, or maybe melt away.
I guess it's all the same

So I will walk through the fire.
'Cause where else can I turn?
I will walk through tht fire
And let it...

SPIKE:
The torch I bear is scorching me.
Buffy's laughing, I've no doubt.
I hope she fries; I'm free if that bitch dies.
I better help her out.

SWEET:
'Cause she is drawn to the fire.
Some people will never learn.
       SPIKE: She will never learn.
BOTH: And she will walk through the fire and let it...

GILES:
Will this do a thing to change her?
Am I leaving Dawn in danger?
Is my Slayer too far gone to care?

XANDER: What if Buffy can't defeat it?
ANYA: Beady eyes is right, we're needed
Or we could just sit around and glare
SCOOBY GANG:
We'll see it though
It's what we're always here to do
So we will walk through the fire

BUFFY:
So one by one they turn from me.
I guess my friends can't face the cold.
TARA: What can't we face
But why I froze, not one among them knows
TARA: if we're together.
and never can be told

SWEET:
So one by one they come to me.
The distant redness as their guide.

That single flame
Ain't what they had in mind.
It's what they have inside.
        ANYA: She came from the grave much graver.
SPIKE: First he'll kill her then I'll save her.
TARA: Everything is turning out so dark.
BUFFY: Going through the motions...
SPIKE: No, I'll save her then I'll kill her.
WILLOW: I think this line's mostly filler.
GILES: What's it going to take to strike a spark?


BUFFY:
These endless days
are finally ending in a blaze.

SWEET: She will come to me.
ALL:
And we are caught in the fire;
The point of no return.
So we will walk through the fire
And let it...burn,
Let it burn,
Let it burn.
Let it burn!



Life's A Show
(Buffy & Spike)


BUFFY:
Life's a show and we all play our parts
And when the music starts,
We open up our hearts

It's all right if some things come out wrong.
We'll sing a happy song
And you can sing a-long.

Where's there's life,
There's hope.
Everyday's a gift.
Wishes can come true.
Whistle while You work.
So hard all day.
To be like other girls
To fit in in this glittering world.
Don't give me songs.
Don't give me songs.

Give me something to sing about.
I need something to sing about.

Life's a song
You don't get to rehearse.
And every single verse
Can make it that much worse.

Still my friends
Don't know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for.

All the joy life sends.
Family and friends.
All the twists and bends
Knowing that it ends.
Well that depends...

On if they let you go,
On if they know enough to know
That when you bow
You leave the crowd.

There was no pain,
No fear, no doubt
Till they pulled me
out of Heaven.

So that's my refrain.
I live in Hell
'Cause I've been expelled from Heaven.
I think I was in Heaven.

So give me something to sing about.
Please, give me something...

SPIKE:
Life's not a song.
Life isn't bliss.
Life is just this.
It's living.

You'll get along.
The pain that you feel
Only can heal
By living.
You have to go on living.
So that one of us is living.



Sweet's Song (Reprise)
(Sweet)


What a lot of fun
You guys have been real swell.
And there's not a one
Who can say this ended well.

All those secrets,
You've been concealing,
Say you're happy now,
Once more with feeling!

Now I've got to run
See you all in Hell!



Where Do We Go From Here?
(Dawn, Giles, Tara, Willow, Xander, Anya, Buffy, Spike)


DAWN: Where do we go from here?
ALL: Where do we go from here?

GILES:
The battle's done,
And we kind of won,

GILES & TARA:
So we sound our victory cheer.
Where do we go from here?

ANYA & XANDER:
Why is the path unclear?
When we know home is near?

ALL:
Understand we'll go hand in hand
But we'll walk alone in fear.
       GILES: Tell me
Where do we go from here?

SCOOBY GANG:
When does the end appear?
When do the trumpets cheer?
The curtains close on a kiss not known,
We can tell the end is near.
Where do we go from here?

BUFFY:
I touch the fire and it freezes me.
I look into it and it's black.
       SPIKE: I died so many years ago...
This isn't real but I just wanna feel...
       SPIKE: You can make me feel...

SCOOBY GANG: Where do we go from here?


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