Various Artists - La Vie Boheme [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

(Angel:)
Who died?

(Benny:)
Our Akita

(Angel & Roger)
Evita

(Verse 1: Benny)
You make fun, yet I'm the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your
Stoop every night?
Bohemia, Bohemia's
A fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is dead

(Mark:)
Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes (Dies irae - dies illa)

(Mark:)
Here she lies (Kyrie eleison)
No one knew her worth (Yitgadal v'yitkadash)
The late great daughter
Of Mother Earth
On these nights when we
Celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass
You bet your ass to
La Vie Boheme

(All:)
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme

(Mark:)
To days of inspiration
Playing hookey
Making something out of nothing
The need to express
To communicate
To going against the grain
Going insane, going mad
To loving tension
No pension
To more than one dimension
To starving for attention
Hating convention
Hating pretention
Not to mention of course
Hating dear old Mom and Dad
To riding your bike
Midday past the three-piece suits
To fruits
To no absolutes
To Absolute
To choice
To the Village Voice
To any passing fad
To being an us for once...
Instead of a them!!

(All:)
La vie Boheme, La vie Boheme

(Mr. Grey:)
Ahhemm

(Maureen:)
Hey Mister - she's my sister

(Waiter:)
So that's five miso soup
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner
Two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls

(Roger:)
Eww

(Collins:)
It tastes the same

(Mimi:)
If you close your eyes

(Waiter:)
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?

(All:)
Wine and beer!

(Mimi & Angel:)
To hand-crafted beers
Made in local breweries
To yoga
To yogurt
To rice and beans and cheese
To leather
To dildos
To curry vindaloo
To Huevos Rancheros and Maya Angelou

(Maureen & Collins:)
Emotion
Devotion
To causing a commotion
Creation
Vacation

(Mark:)
Mucho masturbation

(Maureen & Collins:)
Compassion
To fashion
To passion when it's new

(Collins:)
To Sontag

(Angel:)
To Sondheim

(Four Girls:)
To anything taboo

(Collins & Roger:)
Ginsberg, Dylan
Cunnigham and Cage

(Collins:)
Lenny Bruce

(Roger:)
Langston Hughes

(Maureen:)
To the stage

(Bohemians:)
To Uta
To Buddha
Pablo Neruda, too

(Mark & Mimi:)
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em

(All:)
La Vie Boheme

(Mr. Grey:)
Sisters?

(Maureen & Joanne:)
We're close

(Angels & Collins:)
Brothers!

(Mark, Angel & Mimi:)
Bisexuals
Trisexuals
Homo-sapiens
Carcinogens
Hallucinogens
Men
Pee Wee Herman
German wine
Turpetine
Gertrude Stein
Antonioni
Bertolucci
Kurosawa
Carmina Burana

(All:)
To apathy
To entropy
TTo empathy
Ecstacy
Vaclav Havel
The Sex Pistols
8BC
To no shame
Never playing the Fame Game

(Collins:)
To marijuana

(All:)
To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M!

(Benny:)
Waiter, Waiter, Waiter ... Waiter!

(All:)
La Vie Boheme

(Collins:)
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon
Will commence immediately following dinner ...
Maureen Johnson
Just back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot
Will perform Native American tribal chants
Backwards through her vocoder
While accompanying herself on the electric cello
Which she ain't never studied

(Roger:)
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
About his inability to hold an erection on the high holy days

(Mark:)
And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap
Will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance
To the sounds of iced tea being stirred
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song
(Roger plays a solo)
That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz!"

(Collins:)
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
While accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub

(Angel:)
And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist
Including the tale of the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T
Virtual reality equipment to self-destruct, as it broadcasts the words:

(All:)
"Actual reality - Act Up - Fight AIDS"

(Mimi:)
Excuse me
Did I do something wrong?
I get invited
Then ignored all night long

(Roger:)
I've been trying
I'm not lying
No one's perfect
I've got baggage

(Mimi:)
Life's too short, babe, time is flying
I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine

(Roger:)
I should tell you

(Mimi:)
I got baggage too

(Roger:)
I should tell you

(Roger & Mimi:)
Baggage

(All:)
Wine and beer!

(Mimi:)
AZT break

(Roger:)
You?

(Mimi:)
Me. You?

(Roger:)
Mimi