La Vie Boheme B is the song that ends the first act in the musical RENT, and forms the halfway point of the film.
Lyrics[]
<poem> MAUREEN: Are we packed?
JOANNE: Yes and by next week I want you to be
MAUREEN: Pookie?
JOANNE: And You Should See They've Padlocked Your Building And They're Rioting On Avenue B Benny Called The Cops
MAUREEN: That Fuck
JOANNE: They Don't Know What They're Doing The Cops Are Sweeping The Lot But No One's Leaving They're Sitting There, Mooing!
ALL: Yea!!!
To Dance
BOHEMIAN GIRL: No Way To Make A Living,massochisms, Pain, Perfection, Muscle Spasm, Chiropractors, Short- Careers, Eating Disorders
ALL: Film
MARK: Adventure, Tedium, No Family, Boring Locations, Dark Rooms, Perfect Faces, Egos, Money, Hollywood And Sleaze
ALL: Music
ANGEL: Food Of Love, Emotion, Mathematics, Isolation, Rhythm, power, feeling, Harmony, And Heavy Competition
ALL: Anarchy
COLLINS & MAUREEN: Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, And Danger Making Noise And Making Pleas
ALL: To Faggots, Lezzies, Dykes, Cross Dressers Too
MAUREEN: To Me
MARK: To Me
COLLINS & ANGEL: To Me
ALL: To You, And You And You, You And You To People living With, Living With, Living With Not Dying From Disease
Let He Among Us Without Sin Be The First To Condemn
La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme
MARK: Anyone Out Of The Mainstream Is Anyone In The Mainstream? Anyone Alive - With A Sex Drive Tear Down The Wall Aren't We All The Opposite Of War Isn't Peace... It's Creation
ALL: La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
MARK: The riot continues The Christmas tree goes up in flames The snow dances
Oblivious, Mimi and Roger Exchange a small, lovely kiss
ALL:
Viva La Vie Boheme
[All] To dance!
[MIMI] No way to make a living, masochisms Pain, perfection Muscle spasm, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders
[All] Film
[MARK] Adventure, tedium, no family, boring Locations Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos Money, Hollywood, and sleaze
[All] Music
[ANGEL] Food of love, emotion, mathematics Isolation Rhythm, power, feeling, harmony And heavy competition
[All] Anarchy
[TOM & MAUREEN] Revolution, justice, screaming for solutions Forcing changes, risk, and danger Making noise and making pleas
[All] To faggots, lezzies, dykes, crossdressers, too
[MAUREEN] To me
[MARK] To me
[TOM & ANGEL] To me
[All] To you and you and you, you, and you To people living with, living with Living with, not dying from disease Let he among us without sin Be the first to condemn La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme
[MARK] Anyone out of the mainstream? Is anyone in the mainstream? Anyone alive - with a sex drive? Tear down the wall Aren't we all? The opposite of war isn't peace... It's Creation!
[All] La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme La Vie Boheme
[All]
Viva La Vie Boheme
[MAUREEN, spoken] Are we packed?
[JOANNE, spoken] Yes, and by next week I want you to be
[MAUREEN, spoken] Pookie?
[JOANNE] My name is not Pookie and we will discuss us later And Mark, you should see They've padlocked your building And they're rioting on Avenue B Benny called the cops
[MAUREEN, spoken] What?
[JOANNE] They don't know what they're doing The cops are sweeping the lot But no one's leaving They're just sitting there mooing
[ALL] Yeah!!! To Dance!
[MAUREEN] No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection Muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders!
[ALL] Film!
[MARK] Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood and sleaze!
[ALL] Music!
[ANGEL] Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation Rhythm, power, feeling, harmony, and heavy competition!
[ALL] Anarchy!
[COLLINS & MAUREEN] Revolution, justice, screaming for solutions Forcing changes, risk, and danger Making noise and making pleas!
[ALL] To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers too!
[MAUREEN] To me!
[MARK] To me!
[COLLINS] To me!
[ALL] To you, and you and you, you and you To people living with, living with, living with Not dying from disease!
Let he among us without sin Be the first to condemn La vie Bohème La vie Bohème La vie Bohème
[MARK (COMPANY)] (La vie Bohème) Anyone out of the mainstream (La vie Bohème) Is anyone in the mainstream? (La vie Bohème) Anyone alive with a sex drive (La vie Bohème) Tear down the wall, aren't we all? The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!
[ALL] Woooooooo! La vie Bohème...
[MARK] Inside, the party continues all night long Outside, the snow dances A riot breaks out in the lot
And oblivious to it all, Mimi and Roger share a small lovely kiss
[ALL] Viva la vie Bohème
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