Billy Elliot the Musical by Elton John and Lee Hall - Dialogue and Script

The Stars Look Down FULL ENSEMBLE Through the dark, and through the hunger Through the night and through the fear Through the fight and years of hardship Through the storms and through the tears And although your feet are weary, And although your soul is worn And although they'll try to break you, And although you'll feel alone We will always stand together In the dark, right through the storm. We will stand, shoulder to shoulder To keep us warm. And the stars look down on the mean and hungry And the stars look down and show the way And the stars look down and we'll stand together To see a day When the stars look down and know our history When the stars look down upon our past And the stars look down and see a future bright at last When we'll stand as one, beneath the sun And though our hands are bruised and bleeding And our lungs are full with dust And our hearts are near to breaking We will never forgo the trust We will fight through pain and hunger Every arrow, every knife. And we will never give the hope up Of a proud and honest life So we will always stand together Through the frost, the hail, the snow The stars are our redemption And some know. The stars look down when we're abandoned, Look down in the heart of night And the stars look down and give us vision To see the light. The stars look down upon our struggle The stars look down and know the past The stars look down and see a future bright at last When we'll stand as one, beneath the sun. All out together All out as one All out for victory Till we've won. All out together All out as one All out for victory All out till we've won BILLY Take me up and hold me gently Raise me up and hold me high Through the nights under darkness Will come a day whet we will fly And although we've been rejected And although we've been outcast We will find a new tomorrow When we come to rest at last And we will stand there proudly And we will never walk alone And we will be returned Back to our home And the stars look down at their reflection And the stare look down and there's a light When the stars look down they'll see the justice And the right And the stars look down and see the struggle And the stars look down and know the pain And the stars will lead us back to where light shines again Where we'll stand as one beneath the sun One beneath the sun When we stand as one All out together, When we stand as one all out as one, When we stand as one all out for victory, When we stand as one till we've won. When we stand as one all out together, When we stand as one all out as one, When we stand as one all out for victory, When we stand as one till we've won When we stand as one all out together, When we stand as one all out as one, When we stand as one all out for victory, All out till we've won. Shine MRS. WILKINSON Try to keep your arm in line Come on at least pretend you're doing fine You can wow 'em every time All you have to do in shine Forget about content Focus on style Steal an inch on them And they'll give you a mile And smile, smile, smile, smile It doesn't matter if you're large or small Trapezeoid, or short or tall Even if you can't dance stall All you really have to do is shine It doesn't matter if your life's a mess The whole process will coalesce Girls, just try to effervesce All you really have to do is shine. Give 'em the old razzle dazzle Turn on the old pizzazz There won't be time to shilly shally Give it backbone, give it welly Bowl 'em over, knock 'em out Show 'em what life is all about Give them the old razzle dazzle And shine It doesn't matter if you're unemployed Only partially humanoid An octopoid whose mind's a void All you really have to do is shine It doesn't matter if you're special needs Maimed or lame, or born in Leeds They love to see a heart that bleeds All you really have to do is shine. Give 'em the old razzle dazzle Turn on the old pizzazz There won't be time to shilly shally Give it backbone, give it welly Bowl them over, knock 'em out Show them what life's all about Give them the old razzle dazzle And shine! You might be feeling lousy You might be feeling blue A little apprehensive A minor touch of flu They couldn't give a monkey's cuss They couldn't give a fig Come on son get over it It's all part of the gig Give 'em the old rinkle *** Give 'em the old kabam Knock 'em sideways blow their minds out There's no time for half time frolics Grab the buggers by the *** Show 'em what class is all about Give 'em that old razzle dazzle And shine Lights! Doesn't matter if you're short or squat Cerebrally challenged, completely shot You might have it or might not All you really have to do is All you really have to do is shine Give 'em that old razzle dazzle and shine Give 'em that old razzle dazzle and shine And shine And shine. Grandma's Song GRANDMA I hated the sod - for thirty-three year We should never have married of that I'm quite clear He spent the housekeeping money on whisky and beer And never lifted a finger Times were hard, but the swine rolled back pissed So we'd fight and he'd swing and he rarely missed So I'd clobber the sod when he couldn't resist: Asleep, you can't lift a finger. But we'd go dancing.., and he'd hold me tight He was air, He was water, He was breath, He was light And he would hold me there, with all his might. And it was bliss for an hour or so But then they called time to go And in the morning we were sober. O he'd drink and he'd talk just like a fool Lie like a bairn and snore like a mule Rarely was sober, pretty much was the rule And he never lifted a finger I suppose times were hard, things were different then Women were women and men, they were men Seventeen, that was it, your life ended when you had a ring around your finger. But we'd go dancing, he was me own Brando And for a moment there my heart was a-glow We had dust in our hair and nowhere to go Boo we were free for an hour or three From the people we had to be But in the morning we were sober. But if I went through my time again, Oh I'd do it without the help of men Or at least your Grandad But then again, you know Best not to linger What is the use of dreaming now? I had my chance, well anyhow, If I'd only known then what I know now I'd've given them all the finger And gone dancing, and not give a *** and spin around and reel and love each bit And I'd dance alone and enjoy it And I'd be me for an entire life. Instead of somebody's wife and I never would be sober. And I never would be sober. Solidarity POLICE Oi Geordie Wanna see something You've never seen before And that's just off the overtime Wanna see some more? MINERS You think yer smart ya cockney *** You wanna be suspicious When you were on the picket line We went and *** yer missus All of us at once Solidarity solidarity Solidarity forever All for one and one for all Solidarity forever Solidarity solidarity Solidarity forever All for one and one for all Solidarity forever POLICE Keep it up till Christmas lads, It means a lot to us We send our kids to private school. On a private bus We've got a lot to thank you for Geordie you're a corker A nice extension on the house and a fortnight in Maiorca Solidarity, solidarity Solidarity forever MINERS Don't worry lads we're on your side Solidarity forever. Solidarity, solidarity Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class, Solidarity forever. GIRLS Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever. We're proud to be working class, Solidarity forever. POLICE You *** worms You *** moles You *** Geordie *** We're hereto kick your Geordie *** You little Geordie gits MINERS We're terrified, We're petrified, Those words are so obscene We'll boot your ***' cockney skulls, Right back to Bethnal Green MINERS AND GIRLS And one [two three] and two [two three] etc MINERS (CONT'D) Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class Solidarity forever. Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class Solidarity forever. MINERS Come on lads get at them Really get stuck in It's tutu bleeding tea dance. Do the *** in. MINERS Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class Solidarity forever. Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class Solidarity forever. WILKINSON Shine, just shine All you have to do is shine (etc) GIRLS 12345678 Etc MINERS Solidarity, solidarity, Solidarity forever We're proud to be working class Solidarity forever. Even ever ever ever Ever ever ever even Forever forever Forever forever Expressing Yourself MICHAEL Is it sinful if you're blue To cheer up the place? What is wrong with dressing up in satin and lace? Get some earrings, some mascara, heels and a fan. Pretty soon you will start to feel a different man. What the hells wrung with expressing yourself? Being who you want to be? Will anybody die if you put on a dress? Who the hell cares if your blushers a mess? Start a new fashion, buck all the trends. Emphasise in-teg-rit-eeeee. Cos what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself For wanting to be me? BILLY What the hell is wrong with wearing a dress? Being who you wanna be? MICHAEL Who the hell is it you try to impress All you have to do is learn to care less Start a new fashion, buck all the trends MICHAEL Billy, sing something to me What the hell is wrong with expressing yourself? For trying to be free. If you manna be a dancer, dance If you manna be a miner, mine If you want to dress like somebody else, Fine, fine, fine. It's not a big statement, it's not a weird act Just a good idea at the time We'll not complain about your boring life If you'll just leave mete mine. If you wanna be a dancer, dance If you wanna be a miner, mine Everyone is different It's the natural state It's the facts, it's plain to see, The world's grey enough without making it worse What we need is in-div-id-ual-ity. The Letter BILLY And I will have missed you growing, And I'll have missed you crying And I'll have missed you laugh. Missed your stomping and your shouting, I'll have missed telling you off, But please Billy, Know that I was always there. I was with you through everything. And please, Billy... WILKINSON But please, Billy know that I will always be Proud to have known you Proud that you were mine Proud in everything And you must premise me this, Billy MUM In everything you do Always be yourself, Billy And you always will be true And I'll have missed you growing, I'll have missed you crying And I'll have missed you laugh. MUM AND WILKINSON Missed your stomping and your shouting, I have missed telling you off, But please, Billy, know that I was always there. I was with you through everything. And please, Billy, Know that I will always be. Proud to have known you. MUM Love you forever. BILLY Love you forever. Born To Boogie WILKINSON We weren't born to stand still Ain't a question of will Gotta move it's a fact You were born to react You weren't made to behave Like you will in the grave. Where mu-sic is played Oh the soul - will be swayed And your feet they will move As if on - ly to prove That it was -n't by chance We were des - tined to dance. We were born to boogie, We were born to boogie It ain't a puzzle, Cos we're blood and muscle From the day of creation We were the dance sensation. Come on and shake per *** Cos we were born to boogie Anyone can get it Cos we're born kinetic Come on and Mash Potat-a The way God made pa. Your feet and your hands Oh your toes and your glands Your eyes and your chin Your face and your skin Oh your brawn and your brains Your balls and your chains We were born to boogie, We were born to boogie It ain't a puzzle, Coo we're blood and muscle From the day of creation We were the dance sensation. BRAITHWAITE Come on and shake yer bonnie we were born to boogie Anyone can get it We were born kinetic Come on and "Mash Potat-a" The way God made ya. We were born to boogie We're all born to We came up from the ocean In full locomotion And when we hit the ground We just danced around Because they say It's in the DNA We were born to boogie We were born to boogie We were born to boogie WE'RE-ALL-BORN-TO-BOOGIE! Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher TONY Can you hear it in the distance? Can you...sense it far away? GEORGE Is it old Rudolph the Reindeer? Is it Santa on his sleigh? TONY & GEORGE It's heading up to Easington. It's coming down the Tyne. Oh! It's bloody Maggie Thatcher and Michael Heseltine! So Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death They've come to raid your stockings And to steal your Christmas pud But don't be too downhearted It's all for your own good The economic infrastructure Must be swept away To make way for business parks and lower rates of pay, so... Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together it one breath Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death. And they've brought their fascist bootboys And they've brought the boys in blue And the whole Trade Union Congress will be at the party too And they'll all hold hands together All standing in a line Cos they're privatising Santa This merry Christmas time, so... Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death. Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God's love be with you We all sing together in one breath Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher We all celebrate today Cos it's one day closer to your death. LITTLE GIRLS Oh my darling, Oh my darling, Oh my darling Heseltine You're a ***, you're a *** And you're just a Tory Swine. Deep Into The Ground DAD Oh once I was a young man Looked over vales and hills Saw myself a future of riches and of thrills But on me fifteenth birthday I paid my union dues And they sent me deep into the ground Oh the winter wind can blow me colder Oh the summer's heat can parch me dry But I'll not leave here for a fortune I shall never leave here till I die Oh once I had a family Sons to make you proud They have gone and left me now, And I count the time out loud For now I am an old man Just waiting for my turn Till they take me back into the ground Oh the winter wind can blow me colder Oh the summer's heat can parch me dry But I'll not leave here for a fortune I shall never leave here till I die Oh the winter wind can blow me colder Oh the summer's heat can parch me dry But I'll love these dark, dark hills forever And I won't leave them until I die Oh once I loved a woman She meant all she world to me Saw ourselves a future As far as I could see But I was only forty-seven when they took her down from me And buried her deep BILLY Oh the winter wind can blow me colder Oh the summer's heat can parch me dry But I'll love these dark, dark hills forever And I won't leave them now until I die He Could Be A Star DAD I couldn't take it anymore son It was tearing me apart We're lost, we're finished man, we're through I need to give the kid a future I need to look him in the eye Believe me son I'd do the same for you TONY But you can't give in now Dad We've all been out a year I can never talk to you again You can't do this to me Dad You can't do it to yourself He's just a kid, he's only just a bairn DAD He could be a star for all we know We don't know how far he can go And no one else can give what I can give, And no one else can give what I can give He could go and he could shine Not just stay here counting time, Son we've got the chance to let him live, Yes, we've got the chance to let him live TONY This isn't about us Dad It's not about the kid It's all of us, it's everybody's chance It's everybody's future It's everybody's past It's not about a bairn who wants to dance It's about our history It's about our rights Think about the sacrifice we've made It's what you always taught us since I was a lad Please, Dad, don't let that passion fade DAD He could be a star for all we know We don't know how far he can go And no one else can give what I can give, And no one else can give what I can give MINERS We're all in this together Jack There is another way All for one. And one for all Take this and this. And this and this And this and this And this and this. Don't worry, lad, we'll never let you fall. DAD He could be a star for all we know We don't know how far he can go TONY But we'll give all that we can give We'll all give all that we can give MINERS We will go and we will shine We will go and seize the time We will all have pride in how we live We will all have pride in how we live (Yes we'll all have pride in how we live Yes we'll all have pride in how we live) We will always stand together Through the dark and through and through the storm We will stand shoulder to shoulder To keep us warm Electricity BILLY I can't really explain it, I haven't got the words It's a feeling that you can't control I suppose it's like forgetting, losing who you are And at the same time something makes you whole It's like that there's a music playing in your ear And I'm listening, and I'm listening and then I disappear And then I feel a change Like a fire deep inside Something bursting me wide open impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying, flying like a bird Like electricity, electricity Sparks inside of me And I'm free I'm free It's a bit like being angry, it's a bit like being scared Confused and all mixed up and mad as hell It's like when you've been crying And you're empty and you're full I don't know what it is, it's hard to tell It's like that there's a music playing in your ear But the music is impossible, impossible to hear But then I feel it move me Like a burning deep inside Something bursting me wide open impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying, flying like a bird Like electricity, electricity Sparks inside of me And I'm free I'm free Electricity, sparks inside of me And I'm free, I'm free I'm free. Free I'm free Once We Were Kings MEN Once we built visions on the ground we hewed We dreamt of justice and of men renewed All people equal, in all things We once were heroes, Once were kings But all great things must come to pass We know the first will soon be last And in the ground we maybe lain But a seed is sown to rise again So we walk proudly And we walk strong All together We will go atone The ground is empty And cold as hell But we all go together when we go We saw a land where wealth was shared Each pain relieved, each hunger fed Each man revered, each tyrant killed Each soul redeemed, each life fulfilled From each mats means to each his need We saw a time man would be freed We fought for all the things we saw The battle's lost but not the war So we walk proudly And we walk strong All together We will go as one The ground is empty And cold as hell But we all go together when we go We will go down but our heads are proud We will go down with our voices loud We will go down but come again And we all go together when we go Ah... (3 times) And we all go together when we go. We walk proudly, and we walk strong All together we will go as one The ground is empty, and cold as hell But we all go together when we go. We walk proudly, and we walk strong All together we will go as one The ground is empty, and cold as hell But we all go together when we go. We walk proudly, and we walk strong All together we will go as one The ground is empty, and cold as hell But we all go together when we go. The Letter (Reprise) BILLY And please, Mammy... know that I will always be proud to have known you proud that you were mine Proud in everything... And I promise you this, Mammy, In everything I do, I'll always be myself, MUM In everything you do Always be yourself BILLY Mummy. And I always will be true. MUM Love you forever. BILLY Love you forever. MUM Love you forever. BILLY Mam.