Santa Fe

Santa Fe
Sung by	Tom Collins, Angel Dumott Schunard
Place	Subway (movie)
Solo	Tom Collins
Act	I
Song Guide
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Santa Fe is a solo sung by Tom Collins with Angel, Mark and Roger (movie only) as the background. Angel has a few main parts in the song, the only other character besides Collins. Collins sings it to show his dream to open a restaurant in Santa Fe.

Lyrics

Angel
New York City

Collins
Uh-huh

Angel
Center of the universe

Collins
Sing it girl

Angel
Times are shitty
But I'm pretty sure they can't get worse

Collins
I hear that

Angel
It's a comfort to know
When you're singing the hit the road blues
That anywhere else you could possibly go
After New York would be, a pleasure cruise

Collins
Now you're talking

Well, I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
And I'm sick of grading papers that I know
And I'm shouting in my sleep, I need a muzzle
All this misery pays no salary, so

Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Oh, sunny Santa Fe would be nice
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And leave this to the roaches and mice

All
Oh oh oh

Angel
You teach?

Collins
Yeah, I teach, computer age philosophy
But my students would rather watch TV

Angel
America

All
America

Collins
You're a sensitive aesthete
Brush the sauce onto the meat
You can make the menu sparkle with rhyme
You can drum a gentle drum
I could seat guests as they come
Chatting not about Heidegger but wine

Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Our labors would reap financial gains
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
And save from devastation our brains

We'll pack up all our junk and fly so far away
Devote ourselves to projects that sell
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Forget this cold Bohemian Hell

All
Oh oh oh

Collins
Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
You know, tumbleweeds, prairie dogs

All 
Yeah