Oxygène, Part 1 (Laboratoire mix) Lyrics & Tabs by Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygène, Part 1 (Laboratoire mix)
guitar chords lyrics
Original Cast
A Line
Montage -, Hello Twelve, Mark, Connie)
conceived, choreographed and directed by MICHAEL BENNET
book by JAMES KIRKWOOD and NICHOLAS DANTE
FOLLOWS "Sing!"
VAL
Hello Twelve,
RICHIE
Hello Thirteen,
MAGGIE
Hello Love.
AL
Changes, Oh!
Down below.
AL
Changes, Oh!
Down below.
DIANA
Up above.
VAL
Time to doubt.
MIKE
To break out.
RICHIE
It's a mess.
MAGGIE (speaks)
It's a mess.
PAUL, JUDY
Time to grow
AL, MAGGIE
Time to go
RICHIE, BOBBY, CONNIE
Adolesce
ALL
Adolesce
Too young to take over,
Too old to ignore.
AL
Gee, I'm almost ready,
ALL
But what for
There's a lot I am not certain of.
Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love
MARK (Wet Dream/Gonorrhea Bit - Abridged)
So, all I could do was drink the water and I drank like twenty glasses a day.
(speaks)
For three weeks
I almost drown
Finally I went to confession
And I told the priest I had gonorrhea!
He was in shock too.
(sings)
"Who have you been with, my son "
(Nobody, Nobody.)
"Then how can you have gonorrhea "
(speaks)
I told him about the books diagnosis for milky discharge and he set me straight!
It was the only time the church ever helped me out. Well, I was
CONNIE (Four-foot Ten Bit)
(sings)
Four-foot ten, four-foot ten. That's the story of my life.
I remember when ev'rybody was my size.
(speaks)
Boy, was that great! But then everybody started moving up, and there I was stuck at
(sings)
Four-foot ten! Four-foot ten. (But I kept hoping and praying.)
I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour,
Hoping I'd stretch just an inch more.
(speaks)
'Cause I was into dancing and I was good and I wanted so much to grow up to be a prima ballerina. Then I went out for cheer-leader! And they told me: "No dice. You'd get lost on the football field. The pompoms are bigger than you." I spent my whole childhood waiting to grow
VAL
Tits! When am I gonna grow tits
PAUL
Secret, my whole life was a secret.
MIKE
One little fart and they called me "STINKY" for three year. Ohhhh!
ALL
Goodbye Twelve, goodbye Thirteen. Hello Love.
Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my God, Robert Goulet!
ALL
Oh! Down below, up above
DON
Playing doctor with Evelyn.
ALL
La la la
RICHIE
I'll show you mine
ALL
La la
RICHIE
You show me yours.
ALL
La la
KRISTINE
Seeing Daddy naked!
ALL
Time to grow. Time to go La, la, la
SHEILA
Mom and Dad were doing it.
BOBBY
I'm gonna be a movie star.
CONNIE (speaks)
But you see, the only thing about me that grew was my desire.
(sings)
I was never gonna be Maria Tallchief, I was just (dialogue dodging the age issue, but mentions the year of the Chicken)
ZACK (speaks)
Ah-hah, the year of the Chicken that'll make you, what Thirty-two
CONNIE (speaks)
Puck-puck-puck-puck girl! So I got caught! But I don't look it, and I shouldn't knock it, 'cause I've always been able to work.
(sings)
From the time I was five in "King and I," "King and I."
Up 'til now I've never stopped, 'cause whatever I am, I am
(SEQUE to Montage - "Nothing")
