30/90
Jonathan
Stop the clock
Take time out
Time to regroup
Before you lose the bout
Freeze the frame
Back it up
Time to refocus
Before they wrap it up
Years are getting shorter
Lines on your face are getting longer
Feel like you’re treading water
But the riptide’s getting stronger
Don’t panic, don’t jump ship
Can’t find it, like taxes
At least it happens
Only once in your life
They’re singing, “Happy Birthday”
You just wanna lay down and cry
Not just another birthday, it’s 30/90
Why can’t you stay 29
Hell, you still feel like you’re 22
Turn thirty 1990
Bang! You’re dead, what can you do?
What can you do?
What can you do?
Michael
Clear the runway
Make another pass
Try one more approach
Before you’re out of gas
Jonathan
Friends are getting fatter
Hairs on you head are getting thinner
Feel like the clean up batter
On a team that ain’t a winner
Michael
Don’t freak out, don’t strike out
Can’t fight it, like City Hall
Jonathan and Michael
At least you’re not alone
Your friends are there too
They’re singing, “Happy Birthday”
You just wish you could run away
Who cares about a birthday?
But 30/90, hey
Can’t you be optimistic?
You’re no longer ingenue
Turn thirty 1990
Boom! You’re passe
What can you do?
What can you do?
What can you do?
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
Which way to Never Never Land?
Emerald City’s gone to hell
Since the wizard blew off his command
On the streets you hear the voices
Lost children, crocodiles
But you’re not into
Making choices, wicked witches,
Poppy fields, or men behind the curtain
Tigerlilies, ruby slippers
Clock is ticking, that’s for certain
Jonathan
They’re singing, “Happy Birthday”
I just wish it all were a dream
It feels much more like dooms day
Fuck 30/90
Seems like I’m in for a twister
I don’t see a rainbow, do you?
Turn 30 in the 90’s
Into my hands now
The ball is passed
I want the spoils, but not too fast
The world is calling
It’s now or Neverland
Why can’t I stay a child forever?
And 30/90
All
30/90
30/90
30/90
30/90
30/90
What can I do?
What can I do?
Green, Green Dress
Jonathan
Deep dark velvet hugs your silouette
Black silk stockings, you’re my Juliet
Soft blond hair baby, baby blue eyes
Cool me down before I jump into your thighs
The green green dress, twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress, what a pleasure to unwrap
Green dress, oh what it can do
What the green green dress does to me on you
Me on you
Susan
Let’s find a chair where we can sit and talk
Or get some fresh air, baby we could take a walk
Tell me what you’re thinkin’, and talk about your day
Tell me what to do, I’ll do anything you say
Jonathan and Susan
Yeah, the green green dress, twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress what a pleasure to unwrap
The green dress, oh what it can do
What the green green dress does to me on you
Me on you
Susan
Can I hear you laugh, babe?
Can you make me smile?
I’ll forget what’s on my mind for awhile
Jonathan
Can I tie you up love?
If you tell me yes
I’ll unbutton every button down your green green dress
Jonathan and Susan
The green green dress, twenty buttons and a strap
The green green dress, what a pleasure to unwrap
Green dress, oh what it can do
What the green green dress does to me on you
Me on you
Jonathan and Susan
Me on you
The green green dress, Green green dress
Me on the green green dress, Green green dress
Me on you
oh uhhh
Jonathan
Green green dress
Susan
Green green dress
Jonathan
Green green dress
Susan
The green green dress
Jonathan and Susan
The green green dress
Johnny Can’t Decide
Jonathan
Break of day, the dawn is here
Johnny’s up and pacing
Compromise, or persevere
His mind is racing
Johnny has no guide
Johnny wants to hide
Can he make a mark,
If he gives up his spark?
Johnny can’t decide
Susan
Susan longs to live by the sea,
She’s through with competition
Susan wants a family
Johnny’s got a tough decision
Johnny has no guide
Jonathan and Susan
Johnny wants to hide
Can he settle down
And still not drown?
Jonathan
Drown
Jonathan and Susan
Johnny can’t decide
Michael
Michael’s gonna have it all
His luck will never end
Johnny’s backed against the wall
Can he bend his dreams,
Just like his friend?
All
Johnny sees that Susan’s right
Ambition eats right through you
Michael doesn’t see why
Johnny holds so tight
To the things that
Johnny feels are true
Johnny has no guide
(Johnny has no guide)
Johnny wants to hide
(Johnny wants to hide)
How can you soar
If your nailed to the floor?
Johnny can’t decide
Jonathan
[Speaking]
I want to write music
I want to sit down
Right now at the piano
And write a song that
People will listen to and remember
And do the same thing every morning
For the rest of my life
All
Johnny has no guide
(Johnny has no guide)
Johnny wants to…
Johnny wants to hide
How do you know
When it’s time to let go?
Johnny can’t decide
(Johnny can’t decide)
Johnny can’t decide
(Johnny can’t decide)
Johnny can’t decide
(Johnny can’t decide)
Decide, decide
Decide, decide
Jonathan
Johnny can’t decide
Sunday
Diner Patrons and Workers
Straight back and to the left
Pick up those fucking eggs
B-ring! B-ring!
Were out of milk
Who took my rye bread?
Four waters to table seven
I’m sorry, we don’t deliver on Sunday
I need table three for two yesterday
Is there a list?
Harrington? Harrington?
Kaplan, K-a-p-l-a-n for seven
Order
No, Im sorry, those people were here first
We don’t have tables for seven
Are we in smoking?
Tension
I’ll have the salad necoys and some honey bread
Balance
I said, I wanted an omelette with no yolks
That’s why you’re just a waiter
Jonathan
Brunch
Sunday
In the blue, silver chromium diner
On the green, purple, yellow, red stools
Sit the fools
Who should eat at home
Instead, they pay on
All
Sunday
Jonathan
For a cool orange juice or a bagel
On the soft, green cylindrical stools
Sit the fools
Drinking cinnamon coffee
Or decaffeinated tea
All
Forever
In the blue, silver chromium diner
Jonathan
Drips the green, orange, violet drool
All
From the fools
Jonathan
Who’d pay less at home
Drinking coffee
All
Light
And dark
Jonathan
And cholesterol
And bums
Bums, bums, bums, bums,
Bums, bums, bums, bums,
Bums,
All
People screaming for their toast
In a small, Soho café
Jonathan
On an island in two
All
Rivers
On an ordinary Sunday
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday!
Jonathan
Brunch!
No More
Michael
No more
Walking up six flights of stairs
Or throwing down the key
Because there is no buzzer
No more
Walking thirteen blocks
With thirty pounds of laundry
In the fuckin’ dead of winter
No more faulty wiring
No more painted floors
No more spitting out my Ultra Bright
On top of dirty dishes
In the one and only sink
Hello, to my walk in closets
Tidy as Park Avenue
Hello, my butcher block table
I could get used
I could get used
I could get used to you
No more
Climbing over sleeping people
Before you get out the door
Of your own building
Michael and Jonathan
No more
Michael
Noxious fumes from gas heaters
That are illegal
Jonathan
Or will blow up while you are sleeping
Michael and Jonathan
Ohhhh!
Michael
No more
Jonathan
Leaky ceilings
Michael
No more
Jonathan
Holes in the floor
Michael and Jonathan
No more
Jonathan
Taking a shower in the kitchen
While your roommate’s
Eating breakfast
Michael and Jonathan
And you are getting water
On his corn flakes
Hello, to shiny
New parquet wood floors
As waxed as a wealthy girl’s legs
Hello, dear Mister Dishwasher
Michael
I could get used
Jonathan
I could get used
Michael
I could get used to you
Jonathan
I could get used to you
Michael and Jonathan
I could get used to you
Jonathan
No more, exotic
Michael
No more, neurotic
Michael and Jonathan
No more anything
But pleasantly robotic
Michael
We are moving on up
Jonathan
We are moving on up
Michael
To the East Side
Jonathan
To the East Side
Michael and Jonathan
To a deluxe apartment
In the sky
Jonathan
What’s that?
Michael
Oh, come on
Hold on, breathe
Jonathan
Uhhhh!
Michael
Easy
Jonathan
What are you doing?
Michael
It’s him
Ah, hold the phone
Michael and Jonathan
Hello, to dear Mister Doorman
Who looks like Captain Kangaroo
Hello dear fellow, and how do you do?
Jonathan
I could get used
Michael
I could get used
Jonathan
Even seduced
Michael
Even seduced
Michael and Jonathan
I could get used to you
Ooow!
Oh, yeah!
Therapy
Susan
Are you saying we can’t talk?
Jonathan
Are you saying we are not talking?
Susan
What are you saying?
Jonathan
What are you saying?
I’m saying I feel bad, that you feel bad
About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad
About what I said, about what you said
About me not being able to share a feeling
Susan
If I thought that what you thought
Was that I hadn’t thought about sharing my thoughts
Then my reaction to your reaction
To my reaction
Would have been more revealing
Jonathan
I was afraid that you’d be afraid
If I told you that I was afraid of intimacy
If you don’t have a problem with my problem
Maybe the problem is simply co-dependency
Susan
Yes I know that now you know
That I didn’t know that you didn’t know
That when I said “No”
I meant “Yes, I know”
And that now I know that you knew
That I knew you adored me
Jonathan
I was wrong to
Susan
Say you were wrong to
Jonathan
Say I was wrong about
Susan
You being wrong
Jonathan
When you meant to say that
Susan
The ring was the wrong thing to bring
Jonathan
If I meant what I said
When I said rings bore me
Jonathan and Susan
I’m not mad that you got mad that I got mad
When you said I should go drop dead
Jonathan
If I were you when I’d done what I’d done
I’d do what you did when I gave you the ring
Having said what I said
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Jonathan I feel bad, that you feel bad About me feeling bad, about you feeling bad About what I said, about what you said About me not being able to share a feeling I thought you’re gonna reacted shallowly When I reacted to you I’m not mad You got mad Go drop dead If I were you when I’d done what I’d done I’d do what you did when I gave you the ring Having said what I said |
Susan I feel badly about you Feeling badly about me Feel badly about you If I thought that what you thought Was that I hadn’t thought about sharing my thoughts Then my reaction to your reaction To my reaction Would have been more revealing I’m not mad that you got mad that I got mad When you said I should go drop dead If I were you But I’m not you Said what I said |
Jonathan
But now it’s out in the open
Susan
Now it’s off our chest
Jonathan and Susan
Now it’s four am
And we have therapy tomorrow
It’s too late to screw
So lets just get some rest
Real Life
Michael
Sunlight through the window
Across from your bed
Beauty is still
Can you see it?
What more can you want?
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
Heartbeats of your children
Asleep in the next room
Trust so still
Can you hear it?
What more can you want?
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
Michael and Jonathan
Why do we seek up ecstasy
In all the wrong places?
Why is it hard to see
That heaven can have simpler faces?
Michael
One breath of an angel
Michael and Susan
Awake next to you
Love’s so still
Can you feel it?
What more do you want?
Jonathan, Michael, and Susan
Is this real life?
Real life
Is this real life?
Is this real…
Is this real life?
Is this real life?
Real life
Is this real life?
Is this real…
Is this real…
Is this…
Is this real life?
Sugar
Jonathan
She can be white
She can be brown
She’s always easy
Goin’ down, goin’ down
She don’t care
What I look like
Or how I dress
She never says no
Always says yes
Oh, oh, oh
Sugar, she’s refined
For a small price
She blows my mind
Sugar, she’s got the power
Sooths my soul for half an hour
Half an hour, half an hour, half an hour
Karessa
Twinkies, oh my God, I love them!
She’s my honey
She’s my tart
I’m a cream puff
She’s my sweetheart
Jonathan
Knocks me out
And strips me bare
Sugar, sugar, sugar
I won’t care
Counter Guy
Late at night
Counter Guy and Karessa
When I’m sad and lonely
One thing only
Cures by blues
Jonathan and Counter Guy
Stressed out
Karessa
Burned out
All
Hangin’ by a string
Sugar, sugar, sugar
I won’t feel a thing
Sugar so sweet
Jonathan
Sugar, sugar, sugar
You got me
Kissing your feet
Kissing your feet
Pretty baby
She don’t care
Counter Guy and Karessa
She don’t care
Jonathan
What I look like
Or how I dress
Karessa
She don’t care
All
No, no, no, no, no, no
Jonathan
The only thing I know
Is that she makes
My life such a mess
All
Oh, yes
Jonathan
Sugar, oh yeah
Counter Guy and Karessa
Sugar, sugar, oh year
Jonathan
Sugar, oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Karessa
Sugar, sugar
All
Sugar, oh yeah
Sugar, oh yeah
S-U-G-A-R
Ooooh! Yeah!
See Her Smile
Jonathan
It’s not you, she says
It’s just that life’s so hard
We all get blue I say
Hang on tight
I’ll be your bodyguard
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile
It’s such a drag, she says
When the world’s so mean
It’s just a red flag, I say
Gotta look for the green
Oh, oh, oh
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Oh, oh, I just wanna see her smile
Cynical town can be tough on an angel
Clip her wings baby, one, two, three
I’m her clown ’cause a
Laughin’ angel’s richer than kings
Oh, baby, don’t you see?
Baby, don’t you agree?
Wish I knew why, she says
But on a sunny day, I find the rain
Let’s give it a try, I say
We can dance all through the pain
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Something’s breakin’ my baby’s heart
Oh, oh
Oh,oh
Oh,oh
Ooooh, oh, oh
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her smile
I just wanna see her
Just wanna see her…smile
Come To Your Senses
Karessa
You’re on the air, I’m underground
Signal’s fading, can’t be found
I finally opened up
For you I would do anything
But you’ve turned off the volume
Just when I’ve begun to sing
Come to your senses
Defenses are not the way to go
And you know, or at least you knew
Everything’s strange, you’ve changed
And I don’t know what to do to get through
I don’t know what to do
I have to laugh
You sure put on a show
Love is passe in this day and age
How can we expect it to grow?
You as the knight
Me as the queen
All I’ve got tonight
Is static on a screen
Come to your senses
Defenses inside are not for real
If we feel as we did, and I do
Can’t you recall when this all began
It was only you and me
It was only me and you
But now the air is
Filled with confusion
We’ve replaced care with illusion
It’s cool to be cold
Nothing lasts anymore
Love becomes disposable
This is the shape of things
We cannot ignore
Come to your senses
Suspense is fine if you’re just an
Empty image emanating out
Of a screen
Baby be real, you can feel again
You don’t need a music box melody
To know what I mean
Deep in my eyes, what do you see
Deep in my sighs, listen to me
Let the music commence from inside
Not only one sense, but use all five
Come to your senses
Come to your senses
Come to your senses
Baby come back
Come back
Why
Jonathan
When I was nine, Michael and I
Entered a talent show down at the Y
Nine A.M. went to rehearse by some stairs
Mike couldn’t sing
But I said, “No one cares”
We sang “Yellow Bird” and “Let’s Go Fly A Kite”
Over and over and over
Till we got it right
When we emerged from the YMCA
Three o’clock sun had made the grass hay
I thought,
Hey, what a way to spend the day
Hey, what a way to spend the day
I make a vow, right here and now
I’m gonna spend my time this way
When I was sixteen, Michael and I
Got parts in West Side
At White Plains High
Three o’clock went to rehearse in the gym
Mike played Doc, who didn’t sing
Fine with him
We sang, “Gotta rocket in your pocket and the
Jets are gonna have their day tonight”
Over and over and over
Till we got it right
When we emerged, wiped out by that play
Nine o’clock, stars and moon lit the way
I thought,
Hey, what a way to spend a day
Hey, what a way to spend a day
I made a vow
I wonder now
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
With only so much time to spend
Don’t wanna waste the time I’m given
Have it all, play the game
Some recommend
I’m afraid, it just may be time to give in
I’m twenty-nine, Michael and I
Live on the west side of SoHo and Y
Nine A.M. I write a lyric or two
Mike sings a song now on Mad Avenue
I sing, “Come to your senses
Defenses are not the way to go”
Over and over and over
Till I got it right
When I emerge from B Minor or A
Five o’clock, diner calls, I’m on my way
I think,
Hey, what a way to spend a day
Hey, what a way to spend a day
I make a vow
Right here and now
I’m gonna spend my time this way
I’m gonna spend my time this way
Louder Than Words
Jonathan, Michael, and Susan
Why do we play with fire?
Why do we run our finger
Through the flame?
Why do we leave our hand
On the stove, although we
Know, we’re in for some pain
Oh, why do we refuse
To hang a right,
When the streets are dangerous?
Why does it take an accident,
Before the truth gets through to us?
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby
Don’t say the answer
Actions speak louder than words
Why should we try to be our best
When we can just get by
And still gain?
Why do we nod our heads
Although we know the
Boss is wrong as rain?
Why should we blaze a trail
When the well worn path
Seems safe and so inviting?
How, as we travel, can we
See the dismay
And keep from fighting?
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby
Don’t say the answer
Actions speak louder than
Louder than
Louder than
Words
What does it take
To wake up a generation?
How can you make someone
Take off and fly?
If we don’t wake up
And shake up the nation
We’ll eat the dust
Of the world wondering why
Why do we stay with lovers
Who we know down deep
Just aren’t right?
Why would we rather put
Ourselves through hell
Than sleep alone at night?
Why do we follow the leaders
Who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe
To start a revolution
If we’re so free?
Tell me why
Someone tell me why
So many people bleed
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby
Don’t say the answer
Actions speak louder than
Louder than
Louder than
Louder than
Louder than
Cages or wings,
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby
Don’t say the answer
Actions speak louder
Louder than
Louder than
They speak louder
Louder than
Louder than
Actions speak louder than words!