The Lives of Me - The Boy from Oz

The Lives of Me

PETER
Everywhere I go
I'm followed by a lot of people
Such a lot of people
It's almost a parade
And if you could see all the people
They're everyone I ever was
And everyone I ever will be
All the lives of me

Nothin' left to hide
I come in many colours
Assorted shapes and sizes
Can adapt to your demands
And if you smile at someone
Then I'll just become that one
And throw in all the others for free
All the lives of me

Faults aren't things for hiding on a shelf
And if you like who I am now
That's only a reflection of yourself

All the games are gone
We face each other naked
Stripped of all disguises
Love is being made
And if I make you feel good
After knowing all you know is really
Only all that you see
All the lives of me

And if you could see all the people
They're everyone I ever was
And everyone I ever will be
All the lives of me
All the lives of me

When I Get My Name in Lights

YOUNG PETER
I'll dance and I'll sing
I'll do anything
Just to get my name in lights
I've got to try to hit the heights
Now that I'm free as a breeze again
Old nimble knees again

And soon they'll all know my name
I'll have fortune and fame
When I get my name in lights
It can happen overnight in these modern times

So hold that front page
This boy was born to strut the stage
I tap and sing and play the pianuh
Splash my name across a big bright bannuh

And that's why
I won't let go til I'm on radio
And when they come to see the sights
That will be my name spelled right
Lighting up Times Square

I'll sit on a flag pole
Whatever's the rage
Just to get my picture on the front page
And just to get my name in lights

ALL
So hold that front page
This boy was born to strut the stage

YOUNG PETER
I tap and sing and play the pianuh

ALL
Splash his (my) name
'Cross a big bright bannah And soon they'll all know my/his name
I'll/He'll have fortune and fame
That'll be my/his name spelled right
Lighting up Times Square

Just to get his name
Just to get his name
Just to get his name in lights

YOUNG PETER
Just to get my name in lights!

When I Get My Name in Lights (Reprise)

PETER
And soon they'll all know my name
I'll have fortune and fame
When I get my name in lights
It can happen overnight in these modern times

I'll sit on a flag pole
Whatever the rage
Just to get my picture on the front page
Just to get my name
Just to get my name
Just to get my name in lights

Love Crazy

CHRIS
Listen to the music in your voice

PETER
You can hear the music everywhere

CHRIS
Catch the melody above the noise

PETER
You can feel it pulsing through the air

BOTH
The whole world is buzzin'
And the light from the sun
Combined with ev'rything
All makes me

Love crazy
Livin' is a crazy thing
Love crazy
Energy is ev'rything

PETER
Listen to the music in the water
Don't you see it swim before your eyes

CHRIS
Try to fill it up, it's full of wonder
How the sun can set and the moon can rise

BOTH
The whole world is buzzin
And the light from the sun
Combined with ev'rything
All makes me

Love crazy
Livin' is a crazy thing
Love crazy
Energy is ev'rything

Love crazy
Livin' is a crazy thing
Love crazy
Energy is ev'rthing

ALL
Don't you know the whole world is buzzin'
And the light from the sun
Combined with ev'rything
All makes me

Love crazy
Livin' is a crazy thing
Love crazy
Energy is ev'rything

All I Wanted Was the Dream

JUDY
All I wanted was the dream
Just like anybody else
I didn't want it pushed aside
Forgotten on a shelf

I wanted laughs and lots of lovers
And limitless wealth
And just one to say you're better
Than anybody else

All I wanted was the time
To obliterate my past
I didn't know how time can come and go
So terribly fast

It's hard to lose it
When you had it right here
In your grasp
But then you wake up and it seems
The dream that you dream
Was just too good to last

All I wanted was the time
To obliterate my past
I didn't know how time can come and go
So terribly fast

It's hard to lose it
When you've had it
Right here n your grasp
But then you wake up and it seems
The dream that you dream
Was just too good to last

Only an Older Woman

JUDY
You need an older woman to teach you
One who is barely reaching her prime
Who thinks you're fun, not someone to preach to
Whatddya say? Let's have a good time!
'Cause with an older woman
Nothing you do is a crime

You have the makings of a monster, kid. I like that.

PETER
I'm not sure what you mean.

JUDY
Hang around, you'll learn. I do need an opening act, as it happens. You really want to come to New York?

PETER
That's all I've ever wanted.

JUDY
Then you're in big trouble.

PETER
I'm waiting
I need an older woman beside me
I need a mentor

JUDY
I need a drink.

PETER
I want an older woman to guide me

CHRIS
Where are we headed?

MARK
Where do you think?

JUDY
Over the god-damned rainbow

ALL
Right down the yellow brick road

PETER
And whaddya know? I've found my ideal woman

ALL
Only one who's been round the block
Can give you the ride you need
Always there absorbing the shock

JUDY
One built for comfort

ALL
Not for speed
Stir up the flame from out of the embers
I sense a fire starting in you
What do you say to making some memories

JUDY
Out of the old

ALL
Comes something that's new
Maybe an older woman
Is going to help us break through

JUDY
As for me
I just can't wait to see her

PETER & CHRIS
Honestly
I was hoping you might be her

ALL
Eventually
When you get to be an older woman

JUDY
Like me

Best That You Can Do

PETER
Just once in your life you'll find him
Someone who turns your heart around
And next thing you know you're closing down the town
Wake up and it's still with you
Even though your world's just come unwound
You're wondering to yourself, "Hey, what've I found?"

When you get caught between the moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the moon and New York City
The best that you can do ...
The best that you can do is fall in love

PETER & LIZA
When you get caught between the moon and New York City

LIZA
I know it's crazy

PETER
But it's true

PETER & LIZA
If you get caught between the moon and New York City

PETER
The best that you can do ...

LIZA
The best that you can do ...

PETER & LIZA
The best that you can do is fall in love

Don't Wish Too Hard

JUDY
Don't wish too hard for what you want
Then you might get it
And then when you get it
You might wish you never got it all

Don't keep looking for love to come
Then it might find you
And then when it finds you
You might wish that you had never been born

How I wished for this and now it's here
Now I wish that it would disappear and go away

One day soon I'm going to change
My tune and without hesitating
I'll be leaving you
And you'll be waiting at the gate for me
Then you'll wish for me and I won't be here
So long darlings I'll just disappear and go away
Go away
I'll just go away

Don't wish too hard for what you want
Then you might get it
And then when you get it
You might wish you never got it all

Don't keep looking for love to come
Then it might find you
You'll find, what you really wanted
And what you really wished for
You never really wanted at all

Come Save Me

LIZA
Come save me
I'm fading fast
Can't keep myself together
And maybe I just won't last
If I'm not with you forever

Now my heart is at stake
I might break
I might die if you leave

PETER
Friends, ask why I smile
It's 'cause all the while
I've got you up my sleeve

LIZA
Come take me, I'm ready for
All that I've never tasted
Come wake me, let's make up for
All of the time we've wasted

Now I'm touching the stars
I'm up here on Mars
I can barely breathe
Friends, ask why I smile
It's 'cause all the while
I've got you up my sleeve

PETER & LIZA
Now we're touching the stars
We're up here on Mars
We can rarely breathe

I'm afraid to come down
And lose what I've found
Afraid you might leave

Come save me
Save me, save me, save me
Come save me now

Continental American

PETER
Once there was a time
When this town was so high
We could never come down
When rules did not apply
We would drink fountains dry
In a club filled with sound
And bands would play to please me
You found a partner easy
Then the name game was the only game in town

ALL
Nights would end at 6 A.M.
You sleep all day
And then start dancing again
The first to see the end
We did the Continental American

PARTY GUESTS
All our clothes from France
Soul Train taught us to dance
We got smoke in our eyes
Friends were lost and found
We're all Paradise bound
Some got lost, nobody cried
But others took their places
Always strange new faces
Always one more chance to go around

ALL
Nights would end at 6 A.M.
You sleep all day
And then start dancing again
Nights would end at 6 A.M.
You sleep all day
And then start dancing again
The first to see the end
We did the Continental American

She Loves to Hear the Music

LIZA
I've been listening quietly
Just waiting for my turn
When it comes to music
There aint nothing I can learn
Cuz everything I live and breathe
Is written on an album sleeve
I can tell you who is hot
Who will make it
And who will not

Cuz I love to hear the music
I've got every lyric down
I love to hear them say I've got
The greatest ears in town
There at every studio
There ain't a pop star I don't know
And sometimes they take me home
But I always wake up alone

Men that want to marry me, they never satisfy
The inner rhythms that I hear are all that keep me high
So they turn around and go
And leave me by my radio
I didn't love them anyway
Not like the way I love the man who play

ALL
I love to hear the music
I've got every lyric down
I love to hear them say I've got
The greatest ears in town
I'm there at every studio
The first to come, the last to go

LIZA
Sometimes they take me home
But I always wake up alone, alone, alone, alone

That's me
Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me hear the music
Yeah!

I love to hear the music
I've got every lyric down
I love to hear them say I've got
The greatest ears in town
I love to hear it
I love to hear the music
I love to hear the music
The music, oh I love it!
Oh I love it!

Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage

PETER
Quiet please, there's a lady on stage
She may not be the latest rage,
But she's singing, and she means it
And she deserves a little silence

Quiet please, there's a woman up there,
And she's been honest through her songs
Long before your consciousness was raised
Now doesn't that deserve a little praise

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation,
And give her one last celebration

Quiet please, there's a person up there,
Who's singing of the sins that none of us could bear
To hear for ourselves,
Give her your respect if nothing else

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Rise to the occasion,
And give her one last celebration

JUDY
Quiet please, there's a lady on stage.
Conductor, turn the final page.
When it's over, you can all go home
But she lives on on the stage alone

So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation,
And give her one last celebration

PETER & JUDY
So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
So put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation,
Give her one last celebration

Put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation,
Give her one last celebration

Put your hands together, help her along,
All that's left of the singers, all that's left of the song
Stand for the ovation,
And give her one last celebration

I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love

LIZA
I'd rather leave while I'm in love
While I still believe the meaning of the word
I'll keep my dreams and just pretend
That you and I were never meant to end

Too many times I've seen the rose die on the vine
And somebody's heart gets broken
Usually it's mine
I don't wanna take the chance of being hurt again
And you and I can't say goodbye

So if you wake and find me gone
Just carry on
You see I need my fantasy
I still believe
It's best to leave while I'm in love

PETER
Too many times I've seen the rose die on the vine
And somebody's heart gets broken
Usually it's mine
I don't wanna take the chance of being hurt again
And you and I can't say goodbye

So if you wake and find me gone
Just carry on
You see I need my fantasy
I still believe
It's best to leave while I'm in love

Oh yeah, I still believe
It's best to leave while I'm in love

Not the Boy Next Door

PETER
Comin' home used to feel so good
I'm a stranger now in my neighborhood
I've seen the world at a faster pace
And I'm comin' now from a diff'rent place
Though I may look the same way to you
Underneath there is somebody new

I am not the boy next door
I don't belong like I did before
Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, but you can't have me
I can't come back here anymore
'Cause I am not the boy next door

You've been savin' those souvenirs,
Faded photographs from my foolish years
I made plans, but they're wearin' thin
And they won't work out 'cause I don't fit in
And those mem'ries will just weigh you down
'Cause I got no place to keep 'em uptown

I am not the boy next door
I don't belong like I did before
Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, but you can't have me
I can't go back there anymore
'Cause I am not the boy next door

I'm not sorry for just bein' me
But if you'd look past the past you could see that
I am not the boy next door
I don't belong like I did before
Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, but you can't have me
I can't go back there anymore
'Cause I am not
I am not
I am not the boy next door

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