Tick, Tick...Boom! by Jonathan Larson - Dialogue and Script

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 ***! 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 *** 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 *** 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 ***' 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 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